Frédérique Lagarde is a contemporary French pianist.

Biography

After her training at the

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, in 1986, she founded with Philippe Portejoie a duo

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which has given hundreds of concerts in the world and was laureate of the Menuhin foundation in 1990 and prize for the best French formation at the Concours international de musique de chambre de Paris in 1992. This duo is dedicatee to numerous works by composers including Pierre-Max Dubois, and Richard Phillips.''Piano ma non solo'',

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, Anagramme éditions, 2012 As soloist or in duo, Frédérique Lagarde has participated in various programs of

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and recorded numerous discs.

Selected discography

* ''Saxophone et Piano'' (

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, Pierre-Max Dubois,

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, Roger Boutry, Lucie Robert-Diessel, Alain Margoni), duo Portejoie-Lagarde, Collection Musique française du XX^e, 1992, Chamade, CHCD 5604 * ''Dédicaces pour saxophone et piano'', duo Portejoie Lagarde, Sylvie Hue, Fusako Kondo, 1996, Pierre Vérany. (contains ''Preludes for piano and saxophone'' by and others contemporary works by Boutry, Dubois, Laferrière and Margoni) * ''Contre-chant'', Musique française du XX^e (

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, Jacques Castérède, Roger Boutry,

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), with

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Sylvie Hue, Le Chant de Linos, 2008, CK 09039 * ''Carte blanche au compositeur Dominique Probst'' (Debussy, Kodaly, Poulenc, Kosma, Probst), with Tatiana Probst (soprano), Patricia Nagle (flute), Frédérique Lagarde (piano) and Dominique Probst (percussion), 2008, Fondation Hippocrène. * ''Jonction, etc'' (Timothy Hayward, Roger Boutry, Richard Phillips, Joe Makholm, Lucie Robert-Diessel * François Rossé, duo Portejoie-Lagarde, Believe/Corelia, 2009, CC874707

References

External links

Duo Portejoie - Lagarde

on Corelia
Philippe Portejoie & Frederique Lagarde - Sonata For Tenor-Saxophone And Piano, Op. 117. 1.Andante
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