[1] He entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in 1947, aged 12, and won the Premier Prix when he was sixteen.
[1] 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 teaches in Rueil-Malmaison, and gives master-classes at the Salzburg Mozarteum and at the International Summer Seminar in Weimar.
[1] His recordings include the complete piano works of Camille Saint-Saëns and of Igor Stravinsky,[2] and many works by Charles-Valentin Alkan, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy (with Noël Lee),[3] and the Russian masters.