Edson Elias (
Rio de Janeiro, February 11, 1947 –
Paris, May 16, 2008) was a Brazilian pianist.
He centered his career in
France since he was appointed professor of the
Paris' Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in 1983 while remaining attached to his homeland's musical life, his 1987 integral of
Maurice Ravel
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's piano Ĺ“uvre both in
SĂŁo Paulo and
Rio de Janeiro being specially long remembered. One year before he accompanied
Gundula Janowitz in a South American lieder tournée, and as late as 1999 he performed the Brazilian première of
AntonĂn Dvořák
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's piano concerto. In addition to his position in the Ecole Normale he was a professor in the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de
Lyon since 2002. He was also active as a teacher in
Switzerland
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, the
Geneve Conservatory's ''Classe de virtuosité'' having been at his charge for the last fifteen years.
References
Brazilian classical pianists
Male classical pianists
1947 births
2008 deaths
José Iturbi International Piano Competition prize-winners
École Normale de Musique de Paris alumni
20th-century classical musicians
20th-century classical pianists
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