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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Bernard Ringeissen
- Bernard Ringeissen (born 15 May 1934) is a French classical pianist. He was born in Paris in 1934.
- His first teacher, at age 7, was Georges de Lausnay.
- He entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in 1947, aged 12, and won the Premier Prix when he was sixteen.
- He had further study with Marguerite Long and Jacques Février.
- In 1953 he temporarily retired from public performance, to focus on music competition. In 1954 he won equal 2nd Prize with Sergio Scopelliti at the Alfredo Casella Competition in Naples.
- He also won the International Music Performance Competition in Geneva that year.
- In 1955 he won 4th prize at the 5th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw; then equal 2nd Prize with Dimitri Bashkirov at the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition (no 1st Prize was awarded that year).
- In 1962 he won 1st Prize at the Rio de Janeiro International Competition and the Villa-Lobos Special Prize for his interpretation of Brazilian music.He has performed widely and served on competition juries in many countries.
- He teaches in Rueil-Malmaison, and gives master-classes at the Salzburg Mozarteum and at the International Summer Seminar in Weimar.His recordings include the complete piano works of Camille Saint-Saëns and of Igor Stravinsky, and many works by Charles-Valentin Alkan, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy (with Noël Lee) and the Russian masters.
- He has also recorded Poulenc's Concerto in D minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra, with Gabriel Tacchino and the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra under Georges Prêtre.
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