Biography
Jean-Louis Haguenauer engages in chamber performances with numerous ensembles, serves as an accompanist for vocalists, and presents solo recitals. While his repertoire spans widely, he has concentrated particularly on the works of Debussy. Residing in the United States, he has earned recognition as an influential teacher.
Born in Paris in 1954, Haguenauer studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris and the Geneva Conservatory. His piano instructors included Germaine Mounier, Alfred Loewenguth, and Jean Fassina, among others. He completed his training at the Paris school in 1973 and received the Licence de Concerts award, conferred unanimously. At the Geneva Conservatory his 1977 graduation earned the first prize for virtuosity as well as a prize in counterpoint and fugue. He also pursued analysis and composition with Nadia Boulanger and Henri Dutilleux.
Haguenauer began appearing as a soloist on major French concert programs and at assorted summer festivals in the late 1980s, along with broadcasts on French radio and television. Over a span of two decades he collaborated with tenor Gilles Ragon in French and German song repertoire. He co-founded the Galpérine-Tsan-Haguenauer Piano Trio in Paris in 1988 and has worked with an exceptionally broad range of chamber musicians, among them the Fine Arts Quartet, the Ebène Quartet, and Les Percussions de Strasbourg. He has belonged to both the Florence Gould Hall Chamber Players and the American Chamber Players series.
Haguenauer has recorded for Ligia, Maguelone, Meridian, and further labels. In 2014 he released on Ligia a four-volume complete cycle of Debussy’s songs with various singers, performed for the first time on Debussy’s piano. In 2020 he moved to Harmonia Mundi for a recording of Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies. He has taught at the Strasbourg Conservatory from 1988 to 1998 and, since that time, at the University of Indiana in Bloomington.
Born in Paris in 1954, Haguenauer studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris and the Geneva Conservatory. His piano instructors included Germaine Mounier, Alfred Loewenguth, and Jean Fassina, among others. He completed his training at the Paris school in 1973 and received the Licence de Concerts award, conferred unanimously. At the Geneva Conservatory his 1977 graduation earned the first prize for virtuosity as well as a prize in counterpoint and fugue. He also pursued analysis and composition with Nadia Boulanger and Henri Dutilleux.
Haguenauer began appearing as a soloist on major French concert programs and at assorted summer festivals in the late 1980s, along with broadcasts on French radio and television. Over a span of two decades he collaborated with tenor Gilles Ragon in French and German song repertoire. He co-founded the Galpérine-Tsan-Haguenauer Piano Trio in Paris in 1988 and has worked with an exceptionally broad range of chamber musicians, among them the Fine Arts Quartet, the Ebène Quartet, and Les Percussions de Strasbourg. He has belonged to both the Florence Gould Hall Chamber Players and the American Chamber Players series.
Haguenauer has recorded for Ligia, Maguelone, Meridian, and further labels. In 2014 he released on Ligia a four-volume complete cycle of Debussy’s songs with various singers, performed for the first time on Debussy’s piano. In 2020 he moved to Harmonia Mundi for a recording of Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies. He has taught at the Strasbourg Conservatory from 1988 to 1998 and, since that time, at the University of Indiana in Bloomington.
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