Biography
Vincent Larderet, a pianist whose core focus rests on Ravel, also commits recorded attention to works by composers who remain outside the standard repertoire. His early formation belonged to a pedagogical line that extended unbroken to the circle around Ravel.
Although music filled his childhood environment, live performance did not. His father, a musicologist on the faculty of the University of Lyon II, instructed him to follow recordings while reading the printed scores. At roughly eight he began piano lessons, directing his energies solely toward improvisation. He simultaneously studied composition and produced pieces in a serialist idiom, earning first prize in the European competition Artists in Color. Both activities ceased after he gave a recital at a music festival at fourteen and chose to concentrate exclusively on the piano.
Pianists of the instrument’s golden age shaped his approach, above all Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Claudio Arrau, and Emil Gilels. At sixteen he entered the Conservatoire de Rueil-Malmaison (CRR) and captured its Virtuosity Prize. In Paris he worked with Carlos Cebro, a pupil of Vlado Perlemuter, who had studied with both Ravel and Fauré. Further training took him to the Musikhochschule Lübeck, where Bruno-Leonardo Gelber was his teacher.
Prizes followed at the Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona, the AMA Calabria International Piano Competition, and the Brest International Piano Competition in France. His first commercial recording, an album of Florent Schmitt, appeared on Naxos in 2011.
Orchestral engagements have taken him across several continents as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic in London, the Sinfonia Varsovia in Warsaw, the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, and a range of French ensembles. Recital appearances have included the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Summer festivals that regularly present him encompass the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Germany, the Festival Pianistico Busoni in Italy, and Piano Texas.
After releasing discs devoted to Ravel and Debussy on Ars Produktion, Larderet moved to Avie and issued The Scriabin Mystery: Piano Works in 2022. The first volume of his complete Ravel piano music cycle followed on the same label in 2024.
Although music filled his childhood environment, live performance did not. His father, a musicologist on the faculty of the University of Lyon II, instructed him to follow recordings while reading the printed scores. At roughly eight he began piano lessons, directing his energies solely toward improvisation. He simultaneously studied composition and produced pieces in a serialist idiom, earning first prize in the European competition Artists in Color. Both activities ceased after he gave a recital at a music festival at fourteen and chose to concentrate exclusively on the piano.
Pianists of the instrument’s golden age shaped his approach, above all Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Claudio Arrau, and Emil Gilels. At sixteen he entered the Conservatoire de Rueil-Malmaison (CRR) and captured its Virtuosity Prize. In Paris he worked with Carlos Cebro, a pupil of Vlado Perlemuter, who had studied with both Ravel and Fauré. Further training took him to the Musikhochschule Lübeck, where Bruno-Leonardo Gelber was his teacher.
Prizes followed at the Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona, the AMA Calabria International Piano Competition, and the Brest International Piano Competition in France. His first commercial recording, an album of Florent Schmitt, appeared on Naxos in 2011.
Orchestral engagements have taken him across several continents as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic in London, the Sinfonia Varsovia in Warsaw, the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, and a range of French ensembles. Recital appearances have included the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Summer festivals that regularly present him encompass the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Germany, the Festival Pianistico Busoni in Italy, and Piano Texas.
After releasing discs devoted to Ravel and Debussy on Ars Produktion, Larderet moved to Avie and issued The Scriabin Mystery: Piano Works in 2022. The first volume of his complete Ravel piano music cycle followed on the same label in 2024.
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