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Director's Quote of the Day:"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. " Abraham Lincoln |
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Emmanuel Pahud
 Born
in Geneva in 1970 and started to study music at the age of six, Pahud
graduated in 1990 with the Premier Prix from the Conservatoire National
Superieur de Musique de Paris, after which he continued his studies with
Aurele Nicolet. He has won first prize in many major competitions and
won eight out of the twelve prizes at the International Music
competitions of Geneva in 1992, Kobe in 1989 and Duino in 1988. He took
the Soloists Prize in the French-speaking Community Radio Awards in
Switzerland, and the European Council's Juventus Prize. He is also a
laureate of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and of the International
Tribune for Musicians of UNESCO. He was named "Instrumentalist of the
Year 1997" at the prestigious Victoires de la Musique award ceremony in
Paris. At the age of 22, he was appointed Principal Flute of the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra under Claudio Abbado.
He gives frequent solo recitals and concerto performances all over the
world, and appears regularly at leading international festivals
throughout Europe, the USA and the Far East. Emmanuel's past two seasons
included concerto appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic (Abbado), the
Budapest Festival Orchestra (Fischer), the Baltimore Symphony, the
London Philharmonic, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Suisse Romande,
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic (Roshdestvensky), Bayerische Rundfunk (Maazel),
Tokyo Symphony, the Berliner Barock-Solisten, the RSO-Wien, Orchestre
National de Belgique, the Russian National Orchestra (Spivakov) as well
as duo recital tours with pianist Eric Le Sage in Europe, Japan and
North America.
Emmanuel Pahud's discography earned him several awards, including
several Diapasons d'Or, Radio France's "Recording of the Year 1997",
several Fono-Forum awards in Germany and the "Geijutsu" award from the
Japanese record industry.
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