Prisca Benoit
Prisca Benoit discovered the piano at the age of three. Her talent was quickly noticed and encouraged by the great cellist Pierre Fournier. She began her musical studies at the Conservatoire National de Région in Nice, then entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris in the class of Jacques Rouvier for piano and Jean Mouillère for chamber music. She will come out with two brilliant first prizes to then continue her artistic perfectioning at the University of Bloomington (Indiana, USA) with Gyorgy Sebok.
The international prizes she won in Athens (Competition “Maria Callas”) in 1990 and in Dublin in 1991 opened the doors to major concert halls such as the Salle Pleyel and the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris, the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Lincoln Center in New York…
A soloist as much as a chamber musician, Prisca Benoit gives concerts all over the world with, among others, the Orchester de Bordeaux-Aquitaine, the Capitole de Toulouse, the National Symphonic Orchestra of Dublin, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra in America, the Middle East, Asia and Europe. Thanks to the highest distinctions from critics and her vast repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary music, Prisca Benoit is invited by prestigious festivals (Yokohama in Japan, Midem in Cannes, Pablo Casals in Prades, Santa Fé in the USA).
In recent years, she has devoted a large part of her career to a piano duo with her husband Mladen Tcholitch. Their debuts in Europe and the United States met great success. Their first CD of two Mozart concertos for two and three pianos (arranged for two pianos) with the Salzburg Chamber Soloists Orchestra under the direction of Lavard Skou Larsen for the Label Pavane Records has just been released.
Prisca Benoit leads a career as a soloist as well and also records a discography including Scarlatti’s Sonatas and a Mozart Recital, acclaimed by critics both in France and abroad. In 2014, her very remarkable debut in America with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra led her to sign for three consecutive seasons of concerts and to record LIVE a CD of Schumann’s Concerto and Chopin’s Concerto in F minor, under the direction of JoAnn Falletta for Label Pavane Records.
Prisca Benoit also devotes a large part of her time to pedagogy, for which she has a real passion. Jacques Rouvier will appoint her very young as his assistant at the CNSM in Paris where she will teach from 1991 to 2020.
