VOLUME 12, NUMBER 15 • FEBRUARY 16, 2001

Grimaud to Perform at Peggy Rockefeller Concert

Pianist Hélène Grimaud will perform at the next Peggy Rockefeller Concert on Wed., Feb. 28. A regular visitor to concert stages of Europe, North America and the Far East, Grimaud made her debut with the Orchestre de Paris in 1988 at the invitation of Daniel Barenboim. She has gone on to appear with orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony. Conductors with whom she has worked include Claudio Abbado, Christopher Hogwood, Kurt Masur and Michael Tilson-Thomas.

The next Peggy Rockefeller concert will feature celebrated pianist Hélène Grimaud.

Grimaud’s 1999-2000 concert schedule included engagements with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, a performance at Avery Fisher Hall with the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnez, and recitals in San Francisco, Santa Fe and Vancouver. Her international engagements included a tour of Germany and Austria with Neeme Järvi and the Goteborg Symphony, as well as concerts with Rome’s Santa Cecilia Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic.

Highlights of Grimaud’s 2000-2001 calendar in North America include engagements with the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver and Indianapolis, recitals in New York, Seattle and Mexico City, and her first appearance with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Her international engagements include performances with the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and the Oslo Philharmonic. She also will give recitals in Berlin and Madrid.

Born in Aix-en-Provence, France, Grimaud began music studies at the Conservatoire there before moving to Marseilles to work with Pierre Barbizet. At age 13 she was unanimously voted into the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris.

In 1985, Grimaud was awarded the first prize in Jacques Rouvier’s class and participated in master classes with Gyorgy Sander, Leon Fleisher and Jorge Bolet, who said of her, "It has been a long time, a very long time, since I have met a natural talent of such quality and musical sensibility."

The concert takes place in Caspary Auditorium at 8 p.m. Please contact Jennifer Goldschlag, x8437, for more information.