Philippe Entremont was born in Reims to musical parents, his mother being a Grand Prix pianist and his father an operatic conductor.

He won a prize in the 1952 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition[1] and then began his career of serious concert-giving at the piano.

He earned further recognition through tours of South America and the United States; organized by the National Music League and the Jeunesses Musicales International in 1953 and 1955.

His recording of Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto with Leonard Bernstein on Columbia was considered an extraordinary reading at the time.

Entremont made a debut as both pianist and conductor (directing from the keyboard) in 1968 on a Columbia records release in which he played Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos.

In September 2007, Entremont returned to New Orleans as soloist to open the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra's second post-Katrina season with Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major.