Jacques Dejean

Jacques Dejean (13 December 1919, in Bordeaux – 7 July 2013, in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande) was a French classical violinist.

In 1942 he won first prize in the Jacques Thibaud Competition (jury composed of Jacques Thibaud, Jules Boucherit, Gaston Poulet, Jean Fournier, André Asselin and Firmin Touche) the year it was founded in Bordeaux.

As a soloist, he collaborated and recorded with renowned artists such as Paul Paray, Jacques Février, Henryk Szeryng, Lily Laskine, Édith Piaf, Milva, Luciano Berio, Marius Constant, Pierre Boulez, Peter Brook and Jérôme Deschamps.

His twin brother, Pierre Dejean, was a percussionist and timpanist at the French Radio from 1943 to 1974 before devoting himself entirely to a career as a painter.

[4] Dejean is buried at the Cimetière de La Chartreuse in Bordeaux alongside his uncle André Fino, a talented pianist, composer and artist who died prematurely during the First World War.