Elizabeth Sombart
Pianist Elizabeth Sombart has had a varied career that includes concertizing, the creation of a foundation offering free classical music education, and authorship of several books. She is also noted as an educator.
Sombart was born in Strasbourg, France, on May 29, 1958. A child prodigy, she took up the piano at seven and, soon after, entered the Strasbourg Conservatory, giving her first concert at 11. After taking the conservatory's first prizes in both piano and chamber music, she left France at 16 for international tuition that included stints as a student of Bruno Leonardo Gelber in Buenos Aires, Peter Feuchtwanger in London, and Hilde Langer-Rühl in Vienna. She rounded out her education with ten years of study at the University of Mainz under conductor Sergiu Celibidache, addressing musico-philosophical questions as well as performance. Sombart has performed at leading halls around Europe and the U.S., including the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, and Wigmore Hall in London. She has been a soloist with the Lille National Orchestra (at the Strasbourg Festival), the Bruckner Academy Orchestra in Munich, and the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra of Catalonia. In 1998, Sombart created the Résonnance 2 Foundation with the intention of bringing classical music to places where it is not normally performed (such as hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, and businesses) and also to offer free piano instruction with no age limits or exam needed. That same year, Sombart made her recording debut on the ArtTati label with the album Les plus belles berceuses classiques.
Sombart has taught at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL) and the Russian Conservatory of Paris Serge-Rachmaninoff, and she is in demand for master classes. In 2014, she founded the International Study Center for Resonance Pedagogy in Switzerland. Sombart recorded for various small labels in France in the 1990s and the 2000s decade, focusing mostly on the music of the Classical and Romantic periods. She recorded Chopin's piano concertos with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 2016. In 2020, she launched a series of Beethoven piano concertos with that orchestra for the Signum Classics label; those appeared complete, as a box set, in 2021. In 2023, she returned on the Rubicon Classics label, recording a double album of Mozart concertos with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Pierre Vallet. Sombart has written three books, Music at the Heart of Wonder, Words of Harmony, and They Call Me Plume. She was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite for Lifetime Achievement in 2006, and in 2008 achieved the status of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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15 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 20, 21, 23, 27
Elizabeth Sombart, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Vallet
Piano solo - Paru chez Rubicon le 26 mai 2023
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SINGING THE NOCTURNES
Classique - Paru chez Classica Records le 6 janv. 2022
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Elizabeth Sombart Plays Chopin
Classique - Paru chez Fondation Résonnance le 31 mai 2018
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Elizabeth Sombart Plays Mozart
Classique - Paru chez Fondation Résonnance le 5 févr. 2021
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Etudes symphoniques et variations par Elizabeth Sombart
Classique - Paru chez Fondation Résonnance le 5 févr. 2021
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Elizabeth Sombart Joue Bach
Classique - Paru chez Fondation Résonnance le 5 févr. 2021
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Les plus belles berceuses classiques
Classique - Paru chez Fondation Résonnance le 1 avr. 1998
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Musique Française, Vol. 1
Classique - Paru chez Fondation Résonnance le 4 févr. 2021
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Beethoven, Piano Concertos No 1 & 2
Elizabeth Sombart, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Vallet
Classique - Paru chez Fondation Résonnance le 22 avr. 2024
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Beethoven, Piano Concertos No 3 & 4
Elizabeth Sombart, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Vallet
Classique - Paru chez Fondation Résonnance le 5 mai 2024
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Beethoven, Piano Concerto No 5 & Triple Concerto
Elizabeth Sombart, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Vallet
Classique - Paru chez Fondation Résonnance le 5 mai 2024
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Elizabeth Sombart Joue Bach
Classique - Paru chez Fondation Résonnance le 16 mai 2020
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Mozart & Beethoven: Piano Concertos
Classique - Paru chez Fondation Résonnance le 6 avr. 2018
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Schubert: Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D.960 / 3 Klavierstücke in E-flat major, D.946
Classique - Paru chez Fondation Résonnance le 3 févr. 2021
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Préludes Intérieurs, 1er Cahier: I
Classique - Paru chez Fondation Résonnance le 10 mai 2024
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo