20 Facts About Philippe Entremont

Philippe Entremont was born on 7 June 1934 and is a French classical pianist and conductor.

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

Philippe Entremont's father introduced him to the world of chamber and orchestral music.

Philippe Entremont studied in Paris with Marguerite Long, and entered the Conservatoire de Paris.

Philippe Entremont won prizes in sight-reading at age 12, chamber-music at age 14, and piano at 15.

Philippe Entremont became Laureat at the international Long-Thibaud Competition at the age of 16.

Philippe Entremont won a prize in the 1952 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition and then began his career of serious concert-giving at the piano.

Philippe Entremont 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.

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

Philippe Entremont recorded Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1, with the same forces.

Philippe Entremont recorded Rachmaninoff's First and Fourth Concertos with Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Philippe Entremont made a debut as both pianist and conductor in 1968 on a Columbia records release in which he played Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos.

Philippe Entremont was Director of the New Orleans Symphony from 1980 to 1986.

Philippe Entremont served the Denver Symphony Orchestra as principal conductor from 1986 to 1988, and music director from 1988 to 1989.

Philippe Entremont has been chief conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and is its Conductor Laureate.

Philippe Entremont holds the same title with the Israel Chamber Orchestra.

Philippe Entremont served on the jury of the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition in 1990,1995 and 2005.

Philippe Entremont caused controversy at the XVII Chopin Competition when he gave Seong-Jin Cho, the winner of the competition, a score of just 1 in the final, the lowest possible score.

Philippe Entremont founded the Biennial Santo Domingo Music Festival in 1997.

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