Catherine Collard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French musician
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Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France
About Catherine Collard
- Catherine Collard (11 August 1947 – 10 October 1993) was a French classical pianist. She entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 14, where she studied with Yvonne Lefébure and Germaine Mounier.
- She was awarded the first prize in piano in 1964, and the first prize in chamber music en 1966.
- She won a number of prizes in competitions (the Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen, Fondation de la vocation amongst others), which began a career of distinction.
- André Tubeuf, writing in Gramophone magazine, characterised her as "an artist too often classed in a line of descent from Clara Haskil but who, in her timbre and sonority, is without question much closer to Yves Nat."She was a frequent piano duo partner of Anne Queffélec.
- She was on the piano teaching faculty of the conservatoire of Saint-Maur.
- She died of cancer at the age of 46.
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