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

Life

Born in Versailles, the daughter of composers Robert Dussaut and Hélène Covatti, Thérèse Dussaut studied piano in France with Marguerite Long and Pierre Sancan and in Germany with the Russian pianist Vladimir Horbowski. She won prizes at the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), or 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 Jean Ja ...

and the

State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart The State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart is a professional school for musicians and performing artists in Stuttgart, Germany. Founded in 1857, it is one of the oldest schools of its kind in Germany. It is one of the oldest and ...

. In 1957 she won first prize at the ARD International Music Competition 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

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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
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