A student with Yves Nat at the Conservatoire de Paris, Frémy ended his studies by winning First prize at sixteen.
He was designated by Marcel Dupré and the Association française d’action artistique (Culturesfrance) as a Soviet government scholarship holder.
For three years, he studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Moscow with Heinrich Neuhaus and then rubbed shoulders with Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, etc.
Gérard Frémy was perhaps the closest French performer to John Cage's universe, known, in particular, for his interpretation of the Sonatas and Interludes and Music of Changes.
[2] Remarkably familiar with contemporary creation, Frémy gave many world premieres of some of the most important composers of the time, including Luc Ferrari's Société II, Si le piano était un corps de femme, and Und so weiter, as well as Stockhausen's Pôle pour deux.