Pascal Godart

Godart learned to play the piano at age five with Renée Entremont,[1] pianist Philippe Entremont's mother, in Brive-la-Gaillarde (France) then with Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen and received a first prize for piano, chamber music and accompaniment at the Conservatoire de Paris.

He also worked the piano with Pierre Réach, Elena Varvarova and Vadim Sakharov.

As a chamber musician, he plays in particular with violinists Olivier Charlier, Ayako Tanaka, Mathilde Borsarello-Hermann, Gyula Stuller, Latica Honda-Rosenberg, cellists Natalia Gutman, Guillaume Martigné, Joel Marosi, Jean-Louis Capezzali (oboe), Florent Héau (clarinet), José-Daniel Castellon (flute), Jacques Deleplanque (horn), the Psophos Quartet [fr], the Alma quartet.

He recorded works by Bach, Gershwin, Schubert, Stravinsky, Saint-Saëns, and Dutilleux.

Since 2010, he has been Professor at the Hemu[4] (Lausanne site) and as of 2022, he has been appointed Head of Piano and Accompaniment Department in Hemu Vaud - Valais - Fribourg and teaches every summer at Académie du Grand Paris.

A portrait of Pascal Godart