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Gérard (Georges) Poulet (born 12 August 1938) is a French classical

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

ist.

Biography

Born in Bayonne the son of conductor

Gaston Poulet Gaston Poulet (10 April 1892 – 14 April 1974) was a French violinist and conductor. He played an important part in the diffusion of the contemporary music of the first half of the 20th century. His son Gérard Poulet, born in 1938, is also a vio ...

, Poulet started studying the

at age five. At 11 he entered 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 ...

in André Asselin's class and was unanimously awarded first prize in violin at age 12. He performed

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the same year under the direction of his father with the

Concerts Colonne The Colonne Orchestra is a French symphony orchestra, founded in 1873 by the violinist and conductor Édouard Colonne. History While leader of the Opéra de Paris orchestra, Édouard Colonne was engaged by the publisher Georges Hartmann to lead ...

. In 1956, he won the 1st Grand Prix of the

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in Genoa then perfected his skills with

Zino Francescatti René-Charles "Zino" Francescatti (August 9, 1902 – September 17, 1991) was a French virtuoso violinist. Zino Francescatti was born in Marseilles, to a musical family. Both parents were violinists. His father, who also played the cello, had stu ...

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, and

Henryk Szeryng Henryk Szeryng (usually pronounced ''HEN-r-ik SHEH-r-in-g'') (22 September 19183 March 1988) was a Polish violinist. Early years He was born in Warsaw, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy Jewish family. The surname "Szeryng" is a Poli ...

. He considers the latter as "his father in music". Poulet was professor, then honorary professor at the Conservatoire de Paris. His students included the violinists ,

Renaud Capuçon Renaud Capuçon (born 27 January 1976) is a French classical violinist. Since late 2016 he has been teaching at the Royal Northern College of Music. Biography Capuçon was born in Chambéry on 27 January 1976. He entered the conservatory in h ...

, Sarah Nemtanu, Jean-Marc Phillips-Varabédjian, Svetlin Roussev, Marie Scheublé, Klodiana Skenderi, Guillaume Sutre, Akiko Yamada. He was also a full professor at the

École Normale de Musique de Paris The École Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot" (ENMP) is a leading conservatoire located in Paris, Île-de-France, France. At the time of the school's foundation in 1919 by Auguste Mangeot, Alfred Cortot. The term ''école normale'' (Eng ...

and at the

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. In his discography, several recordings, notably Bartók's Sonata for Solo Violin and the six Bach's

Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin The sonatas and partitas for solo violin (Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, BWV 1001–1006) are a set of six works composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. They are sometimes referred to in English as the sonatas and for solo violin in accordance with Bach's he ...

, have been warmly welcomed by the critics.

Films

* ''Une leçon particulière'', directed by

Claude Mouriéras Claude Mouriéras (born 27 September 1953) is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1989. His film '' Dis-moi que je rêve'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival The ...

, conception by and François Manceaux, 1987.

References

External links

Portrait of Gérard Poulet

Gérard Poulet
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Radio Classique Radio Classique is a French commercial radio station created in 1983 that broadcasts mainly classical music. Its programmes also contain segments of economic and political news. As of 2015, it had 1.1 million listeners per day. Radio Classique ...

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Gérard Moulet
(Tutti Magazine)
Discography
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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Poulet, Gerard 20th-century French male classical violinists 1938 births Living people People from Bayonne Conservatoire de Paris alumni Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres