Serge Collot (27 December 1923 – 11 August 2015) was a French

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Biography

Born in Paris, Collot studied viola at the

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with

Maurice Vieux Maurice Edgard Vieux (14 April 1884 in Savy-Berlette near Valenciennes – 28 April 1951 in Paris) was a French people, French viola, violist whose teaching at the Conservatoire de Paris plays a key role in the history of the viola in France. Vieu ...

, chamber music with Joseph Calvet, and

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with Maurice Hewitt and

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. He won first prizes in viola (1944) and chamber music (1949). Collot was a member of the Parrenin Quartet,

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String Quartet, and Bernède Quartet. In 1960 he founded Le Trio à Cordes Français with violinist Gérard Jarry and cellist Michel Tournus. The ensemble performed together for 32 years. From 1957 to 1986 he was Principal Violist with the Orchestra of the Paris Opera. Collot served as Professor of Viola for twenty years (1969–1989) at the Conservatoire de Paris. Many contemporary violists have been his students: Pierre-Henri Xuereb, Jean Sulem (who succeeded him at the Conservatoire in 1989), Émile Cantor,

Jacques Borsarello Jacques Borsarello (born 1951) is a French classical violist. Life Born in Toulon, Borsarello was a student of Serge Collot and Bruno Pasquier at the Conservatoire de Paris. A member of the Loewenguth Quartet for four years, he was a member of ...

, Laurent Verney, Jean-Paul Minali Bella. An exponent of contemporary music, Collot performed in Pierre Boulez's Domaine Musical concerts until 1970 and has inspired many compositions for viola including ''Quatre Duos'' for viola and piano (1979) by

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and, in particular, the '' Sequenza VI'' for viola solo (1967) by

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. He has performed and lectured internationally and has served on juries of music competitions including those in

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. Collot was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1989. His life was the subject of a 2002 documentary film entitled ''L'ouvrage de Serge Collot'' and directed by Dominique Pernoo. Collet played a 1741 viola by

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once owned and played by Théophile Laforge. He died at the age of 91 in

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on 11 August 2015.FranceMusique: Disparition de Serge Collot, maître français de l’alto

Discography

;Viola * ''Art of the Viola'' – Serge Collot (viola); Keiko Toyama (piano);

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(flute); Ayako Shinozaki (harp); Camerata 462 (1997), Camerata 462 (2002) :: Robert Schumann: '' Märchenbilder'' for viola and piano, Op. 113 (1851) :: Mikhail Glinka: Sonata in D minor for viola and piano :: Claude Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola and harp (1915) ::

Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud (; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as ''The Group of Six''—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions ...

: Sonata No. 2 for viola and piano, Op. 244 (1944) * ''Contemporary Viola'' – Serge Collot (viola); Adés 16.002 (1970s) ::

: ''Sequenza VI'' for viola solo ::

André Jolivet André Jolivet (; 8 August 1905 – 20 December 1974) was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet drew on his interest in acoustics and atonality, as well as both ancient and modern musical influe ...

: ''5 Églogues'' for viola solo ::

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: Sonata for viola solo, Op. 25 No. 1 *

: ''Points d'aube'' for viola and 13 wind instruments; Serge Collot (viola); Marius Constant (conductor); Ensemble Ars Nova; Adés 205 762 (1978, 1996) *

: ''Concertos and Chamber Works'' – ''5 églogues'' for viola solo; Serge Collot (viola); Accord 476 7783 (2005) * Robert Schumann: ''Contes de Fées (Fairy Tales)'' – Serge Collot (viola); Béatrice Berne (clarinet); Julie Guigue (piano); Polymnie POL 390 231 :: '' Märchenbilder'' for viola and piano, Op. 113 (1851) :: ''Märchenerzählungen'' for clarinet, viola and piano, Op. 132 (1853) ;Chamber music * ''

Jacques Ibert Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (15 August 1890 – 5 February 1962) was a French composer of classical music. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his firs ...

(1890–1962)'' – String Quartet (1937–1942); Parrenin Quartet; Ades 20346 (1990) *

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: ''Lion'' – Camerata 270 (1999) :: ''Quinquevalence'' for violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano (1991); Takumi Kubota (violin); Serge Collot (viola); Masaharu Kanda (cello); Yoshio Nagashima (double bass); Tomoko Mukaiyama (piano) :: ''Strata I'' for string quartet (1988); Mitsuko Ishii, Hiroaki Ozeki (violins); Serge Collot (viola); Masaharu Kanda (cello) *

Teizo Matsumura Teizo Matsumura (松村禎三 ''Matsumura Teizō''; 15 January 1929 – 6 August 2007) was a Japanese composer and poet. Orphaned and suffering from tuberculosis, during his recovery in the early 1950s he began to write both haiku and music. He ...

: ''Courtyard of Apsaras'' – String Quartet (1996) – Sonoko Numata, Saschko Gawriloff (violins); Serge Collot (viola); Christoph Henkel (cello); Camerata 617 (2001) * Georges Onslow: String Quartet, Op. 8 No. 1; String Quintet, Op. 78 No. 1 – Gérard Jarry; Yvon Caracilly; Serge Collot;

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 ...

; Michel Tournus

Sources

* Riley, Maurice W. (1991), "Brief Biographies of Violists", ''The History of the Viola, Volume II'', Ann Arbor, Michigan: Braun-Brumfield, p. 371.

References

External links

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