Cédric Pescia
Pianist Cédric Pescia has recorded subtle interpretations of keyboard repertoire from Couperin to Messiaen. He has also been active as a chamber musician and as a coach for singers of lieder.
Pescia was born in 1976 in Lausanne, Switzerland, and took up the piano at age seven. He enrolled at the Lausanne Conservatory, studying with Christian Favre, and then moved to the Geneva Conservatory, where his teacher was Dominique Merlet. At both these schools, Pescia took top prizes. He completed his studies at the Berlin University of the Arts under Klaus Hellwig. Pescia took master classes from Daniel Barenboim, Irwin Gage, and Christian Zacharias, among others, and, during several seasons at the International Piano Academy on Italy's Lake Como, Leon Fleisher, Andreas Staier, and Fou Ts'ong. Pescia also took chamber music coaching from the Alban Berg Quartet. A major prize breakthrough for Pescia was a win at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City in 2002. Beginning ambitiously with a recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations on the Claves label in 2005, Pescia has continued to record for that label and, at times, for Aeon.
Pescia has toured the U.S., South America, China, and North Africa, as well as Europe. Among his major appearances as a soloist have been those with the Utah Symphony, the Orchestre Nationale de Lille, the Camerata Bern, and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. He has given recitals at the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Salzburg Mozarteum, and London's Wigmore Hall. Pescia has been a frequent guest at major European festivals. He has recorded an ongoing cycle of piano works by Robert Schumann, and in 2017, his recording of violin sonatas by Ernest Bloch, with his frequent duet partner Nurit Stark, appeared on Claves. Signed to the La Dolce Volta label, Pescia issued a recording of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and in 2020, he was heard with pianist Philippe Cassard on a recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, transcribed by Liszt for two pianos. In 2022, he joined Cassard and soprano Natalie Dessay on the album Mozart à l'opéra. Pescia often gives master classes and, since 2012, has been a professor of piano at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva.
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Discography
15 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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John Cage : Sonatas & Interludes
Classical - Released by AEON on 17 Apr 2012
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Bach : Die Kunst der Fuge (L'art de la fugue)
Solo Piano - Released by AEON on 10 Jan 2014
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
J. S. Bach: Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I
Classical - Released by La Dolce Volta on 28 Sep 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
J. S. Bach: Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch II
Classical - Released by La Dolce Volta on 28 Sep 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart à l'opéra
Philippe Cassard, Orchestre national de Bretagne, Natalie Dessay, Cédric Pescia
Classical - Released by La Dolce Volta on 23 Sep 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Messiaen: Chamber Music
Franz Benda, Felix Renggli, Nurit Stark, Ivan Monighetti, Cédric Pescia
Chamber Music - Released by Genuin on 6 Nov 2012
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bloch: The Sonatas for Violin & Piano, Piano Sonata
Chamber Music - Released by Claves Records on 1 Dec 2017
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schumann: Works for Violon / Viola & Piano
Chamber Music - Released by Claves Records on 19 Jan 2015
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Busoni: Sonata for Piano & Violin No. 2 - Enescu: Sonata for Violin & Piano No. 3
Classical - Released by Claves Records on 17 Nov 2008
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 transcribed for 2 Pianos by Franz Liszt
Cédric Pescia, Philippe Cassard
Classical - Released by La Dolce Volta on 16 Oct 2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
J. S. Bach: Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch II
Classical - Released by La Dolce Volta on 28 Sep 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Ravel: Complete Works for Violin & Piano
Chamber Music - Released by VDE-GALLO on 22 Jun 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Gregorio Zanon: Works for Solo Piano
Classical - Released by Claves Records on 20 Dec 2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
In Memoriam
Nurit Stark, Cédric Pescia, Olga Dowbusch-Lubotsky
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on 1 Oct 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Aurélien Bello: Sonate pour piano
Classical - Released by Liendoré on 1 Feb 2024
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo