Thérèse Dussaut (born 20 September 1939) is a French pianist and music educator.

Life

Born in Versailles, the daughter of composers

Robert Dussaut Robert Dussaut (19 September 1896 – 23 October 1969) was a French classical composer. Life Born in Paris from Robert Anatole Dussaut (hospital director) and Marthe Dussaut (they were first cousins), he entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 19 ...

and Hélène Corvatti, Thérèse Dussaut studied piano in France with

Marguerite Long Marguerite Marie-Charlotte Long (13 November 1874 – 13 February 1966) was a French pianist, pedagogue, lecturer, and an ambassador of French music. Life Early life: 1874–1900 Marguerite Long was born to Pierre Long and Anne Marie Antoin ...

and

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and in Germany with the Russian pianist Vladimir Horbowski. She won prizes 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 ...

and the

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. In 1957 she won first prize at the

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in piano. After graduation, she began an international career as a concert pianist. Her repertoire includes works by contemporary composers such as Charles Chaynes's Piano Concerto and Léon Mouravieff's ''Strophe, Antistrophe and Epode''. From 1987 to 1995 she was artistic director of the ''Cévennes Festival'', which she founded. Between 1988 and 2000 she ran a summer university. She has given

master class A master class is a Class (education), class given to students of a particular Academic discipline, discipline by an expert of that discipline—usually music, but also science, painting, drama, games, or on any other occasion where skills are b ...

es in the USA, Russia, Germany and Ukraine and teaches a master class for piano at the Toulouse Conservatory. Among her students are the pianists Patrick Lechner, Elif Sahin-Nesweda, Nina Prešiček, Peter Schedding, Felix Romankiewicz, , Sora Dietzinger and Mayumi Asano. Dussaut also served as a juror at the

International Tchaikovsky Competition The International Tchaikovsky Competition is a classical music competition held every four years in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, for pianists, violinists, and cellists between 16 and 32 years of age and singers between 19 and 32 years of ...

and the Horowitz Competition.

References

External links

Dussaut Thérèse

Discography
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Recordings of Dussaut mostly playing music by Ravel
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dussaut, Therese 1939 births Living people 20th-century French women classical pianists Conservatoire de Paris alumni French music educators People from Versailles Women music educators