BIOGRAPHY :
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Pierre Amoyal is one of the most brilliant violinists of his generation. He began his music studies very early and was awarded a Premier Prix from the Conservatoire National Superieur de musique de Paris he age of 12. At the age of 17 he departed for Los Angeles to study with Jascha Heifetz, with whom he studied for five years. There he enjoyed the privilege of performing chamber music in concert as well as recording with Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky.
Since then Pierre Amoyal has been invited to play with the most eminent orchestras and has performed throughout the world. He regularly works with the most important conductors of our time: Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa, Charles Dutoit, Eliahu Inbal, Stanislas Skrowaczewski, Gunter Herbig, Georges
Pretre, Guennadi Roshdestvensky, Kurt Sanderling, Simon Rattle, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos and Myung Whun Chung . He recently performed the German premier of Dutilleux' Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Lorin Maazel.
Highlights of the 2004/2005 season include concerts in Barcelona , Paris (Theatre du Chatelet), Montpellier , Toulon , Duisburg , and Belgium . In June he will depart for his third tour in New Zealand . He will be a jury member of the New Zealand International Competition 2005, the Sibelius International Competition 2006 and the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2006.
His numerous recordings for Decca include works by Faure (with Pascal Roge), Chausson, Franck (with the Ysaye Quartet and Pascal Roge), as well as concertos by Dutilleux, Saint-Saens and Respighi (Concerto Gregoriano, with Charles Dutoit and the French National Orchestra). His most recent recordings for Harmonia Mundi include Grieg's three sonatas and Brahms' violin sonatas, all with Frederic Chiu, and Rene Koering's Violin Concerto with Friedemann Layer.
Pierre Amoyal is also a passionate teacher. He was appointed a professor at the National Conservatory in Paris at a very young age and now teaches at the Lausanne Conservatory
(Haute Ecole de Musique ). He is the artistic director of the Lausanne Summer Music Academy , devoted exclusively to the violin/piano repertoire, which he founded with Alexis Weissenberg and now co-directs with Bruno Canino.
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BSO - Pierre Amoyal and the Camerata de Lausanne Concert Tour Autumn 2005 
