Book Philippe Entremont

Philippe Entremont is the French classical pianist and conductor whose career began in the early 1950s. Born in 1934, he won a prize at the 1952 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition and quickly emerged as a major new voice in European piano playing, touring South America and the United States in 1953 and 1955. Eugene Ormandy engaged him after an audition, and he made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in November 1956. His celebrated recordings include Rachmaninoff with Ormandy and with Leonard Bernstein, Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, Saint-Saëns concertos, and a long list of albums such as Rhapsody in Blue / Concerto in F (1967), Entremont plays Chopin: The Four Ballades (1970), The Gershwin Album (1983) and Satie / Entremont (1982). In 1968 he debuted as a conductor leading from the keyboard, and he later led the New Orleans Symphony from 1980 to 1986 and served as principal conductor of the Denver Symphony Orchestra from 1986. He has taught at Vienna's University of Music and Performing Arts, and his honors include Commander of the Legion of Honour and Austria's Grand Decoration of Honour. He brings elegance, insight and Gallic flair to the concert hall.