Roland Pidoux (born 29 October 1946, in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

) is a French contemporary cellist and conductor.

Biography

Roland Pidoux studied at the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...

until 1966. His masters were

André Navarra André-Nicolas Navarra (Biarritz, 13 October 1911 – Siena, 31 July 1988) was a French cellist and cello teacher. Early life He was born into a musical family in Biarritz, his father being a bassist of Italian descent."'Play From The Stomach, ...

Jean Hubeau Jean Hubeau (22 June 191719 August 1992) was a French pianist, composer and pedagogue known especially for his recordings of Gabriel Fauré, Robert Schumann and Paul Dukas, which are recognized as benchmark versions. Biography Admitted at t ...

and Joseph Calvet. He entered the Orchestra of the

Opéra de Paris The Paris Opera (, ) is the primary opera and ballet company of France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the , and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and officially renamed the , but continued to be ...

in 1969, then was cellist solo by the

Orchestre national de France The Orchestre national de France (ONF; literal translation, ''National Orchestra of France'') is a French symphony orchestra based in Paris, founded in 1934. Placed under the administration of the French national radio (named Radio France sinc ...

from 1978 to 1987. In the same time, he was a member of the

Via Nova Quartet The Via Nova Quartet is a French string quartet ensemble established in 1968. History Founded in 1968 by musicians who had met at the Cyrne Arte festival ( Corsica) four years earlier, it first took the festival's name. Its repertoire ranges fro ...

, then the Pasquier Trio with

Régis Pasquier Régis Pasquier (born 12 October 1945) is a French violinist from a family of musicians. His father Pierre Pasquier (1902–1986), a violist and his uncles Jean (1903), a violinist, and Étienne (1905–1997), a cellist, had founded a string trio, ...

(violin) and

Bruno Pasquier Bruno Pasquier (born 10 December 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine), is a French violist, the son of Pierre Pasquier, also a violist. Biography After a First Prize at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1961, Pasquier won the ARD International Music Comp ...

(viola). He also formed a piano trio with

Jean-Claude Pennetier Jean-Claude Pennetier (born 16 May 1942) is a French classical pianist. Biography Born in Châtellerault, Pennetier began studying the piano at the age of three and later entered the Conservatoire de Paris in piano and chamber music classes. A ...

and Régis Pasquier. Roland Pidoux has been professor at the Conservatoire de Paris and artistic director of the "Rencontres de violoncelle" at Bélaye (Lot) since 1988. Roland Pidoux is the father of cellist

Raphaël Pidoux Raphaël Pidoux (born 1967) is a contemporary French classical cellist. Biography Raphaël Pidoux started studying the cello with his father Roland Pidoux. In 1987 he won the First Prize of the Conservatoire de Paris in Philippe Muller's clas ...

. Pidoux appeared as cellist Pablo Casals in

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's '' Jackie''.

Selected discography

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...

: Works for cello and piano, with Jean-Claude Pennetier (Saphir, 2001) * Mozart:

Clarinet Quintet Traditionally a clarinet quintet is a chamber musical ensemble made up of one clarinet, plus the standard string quartet of two violins, one viola, and one cello. Now the term clarinet quintet can refer to five B clarinets; four B clarinets and a ...

K.581, with

Michel Portal Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz". Early life Portal was born in Bayonne on ...

, etc. (Harmonia Mundi) *

Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...

: Trio with piano Op. 100, with Jean-Claude Pennetier and Régis Pasquier (Harmonia Mundi, 1980) * Schubert: ''

Arpeggione Sonata The Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor, D. 821, was written by Franz Schubert in Vienna in November 1824. The sonata is the only substantial composition for the arpeggione (which was essentially a bowed guitar) extant today. The sonata wa ...

'' D821 and string trios D581 & D471, with Régis Pasquier, Bruno Pasquier and Jean-Claude Pennetier (Harmonia Mundi, 1980)

References

External links

Roland Pidoux
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Roland Pidoux, directeur artistique des XXVIIIèmes Rencontres de violoncelle de Bélaye
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France Musique France Musique is a French national public radio channel owned and operated by Radio France. It is devoted to the broadcasting of music, both live and recorded, with particular emphasis on classical music and jazz. History The channel was launch ...

PIDOUX Roland
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Roland Pidoux discography
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Gabriel Fauré : Elégie op. 24
with Roland Pidoux, cello; Jean-Claude Pennetier, piano {{DEFAULTSORT:Pidoux, Roland 1946 births Living people Musicians from Paris French classical cellists French male conductors (music) Conservatoire de Paris alumni Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris 21st-century French conductors (music) 21st-century French male musicians 21st-century cellists