Pierre Amoyal

Pierre Amoyal (born 22 June 1949 in Paris) is a French violinist and is the artistic director of the Conservatory of Lausanne.

He has toured extensively, made numerous recordings and played with many major conductors, such as Sir Georg Solti, with whom he made his European debut at the age of 22, Pierre Boulez, and Herbert von Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic He was violin teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris and then at the Conservatory of Lausanne, until June 2014.

Then he was teacher at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Académie internationale d'été de Nice, and in Japan.

He also created and organised the "violin and piano master-classes" of the Music Academy of Lausanne since 1991.

He was made a Chevalier of Arts and Letters in 1985 and promoted to Knight of the National Order of Merit in 1995.