Vincent Larderet
Pianist Vincent Larderet specializes in the music of Ravel, also recording works of lesser-known composers. His training had roots in a tradition stretching back to Ravel's own circle.
Larderet grew up around music but not around musical performance. His father was a musicologist and a member of the faculty at the University of Lyon II in France, and he was taught to listen to recordings and follow them with printed scores. He took up the piano at the age of about eight, at first dedicating himself purely to improvisation. Larderet also studied composition, writing pieces in a serialist style, and was an artist who won a European competition called Artists in Color. However, he gave up both those enterprises and devoted himself to the piano after making his recital debut at a music festival when he was 14. Larderet was influenced by players from the pianistic golden age, notably Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Claudio Arrau, and Emil Gilels. At 16, he entered the Conservatoire de Rueil-Malmaison (CRR), winning the school's Virtuosity Prize. He studied in Paris with Carlos Cebro, a student of Vlado Perlemuter, who had studied with both Ravel and Fauré. Larderet went on to the Musikhochschule Lübeck in Germany, studying with Bruno-Leonardo Gelber. Larderet won prizes at major events, including the Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona, the AMA Calabria International Piano Competition, and the Brest International Piano Competition in France. His recording debut came in 2011 with an album of music by Florent Schmitt on the Naxos label.
Larderet has appeared as a soloist with orchestras internationally, including the Royal Philharmonic in London, the Sinfonia Varsovia in Warsaw, and the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, as well as various French ensembles. He has appeared at top venues such as the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Larderet is in demand at summer events such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Germany, the Festival Pianistico Busoni in Italy, and Piano Texas. After issuing albums devoted to Ravel and Debussy on the Ars Produktion label, Larderet moved to Avie, releasing the album The Scriabin Mystery: Piano Works in 2022. He followed that up with the first installment in a complete cycle of Ravel's piano music on Avie in 2024.
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Discography
10 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 1
Classical - Released by AVIE Records on 1 Mar 2024
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The Scriabin Mystery
Classical - Released by AVIE Records on 23 Sep 2022
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Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante défunte, M.19
Classical - Released by AVIE Records on 2 Feb 2024
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Ravel & Schmitt : Piano Concertos
Vincent Larderet, Orchestre symphonique de l'Estuaire, Daniel Kawka
Keyboard Concertos - Released by Ars Produktion on 25 Sep 2015
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Maurice Ravel : Orchestral & Virtuoso Piano
Solo Piano - Released by Ars Produktion on 1 Apr 2014
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Debussy Centenary
Classical - Released by Ars Produktion on 19 Jan 2018
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Liszt: Between Light & Darkness
Classical - Released by Piano Classics on 25 Sep 2020
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Brahms & Berg : Piano Works
Classical - Released by Ars Produktion on 21 Oct 2016
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Musique pour piano
Classical - Released by Naxos on 28 Jan 2011
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Ravel: Miroirs, M.43: No. 4, Alborada del gracioso
Classical - Released by AVIE Records on 16 Feb 2024
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