Prisca Benoit
Prisca Benoit discovered the piano at the age of three, her precocious talent was quickly noticed and encouraged by the great cellist Pierre Fournier. She entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at a very young age in the class of Jacques Rouvier. She will emerge with a brilliant first prize and then enrich her artistic career at the University of Bloomington (Indiana, USA) with Gyorgy Sebok.
The international prizes she won in Athens (“Maria Callas” Competition) 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 well as a chamber musician, Prisca Benoit gives concerts all over the world with, among others, the Bordeaux-Aquitaine Orchestra, the Capitole de Toulouse, the National Symphonic Orchestra of Dublin, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, in the Middle East, Asia and Europe. Thanks to the highest distinctions from critics and her vast repertoire, Prisca Benoit is invited by prestigious festivals (Yokohama in Japan, Midem in Cannes, Pablo Casals in Prades, Santa Fé in the USA).
Prisca Benoit participated in almost all chamber music formations. On two pianos, she gives concerts with prestigious pianists: Aldo Ciccolini, Jean-Philippe Collard, Pascal Devoyon, Cyprien Katsaris and in particular with Jacques Rouvier who will be her partner for many years. They are burning a CD on the theme of dance. Still on two pianos, she now forms a duo with Mladen Tcholitch.
Added to this duo are other favorite partners: Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Philippe Muller, Roland Daugareil, Roland Pidoux and Michel Michalakakos (with whom she records the Brahms Quartets and Quintet). Prisca Benoit does not move away from her career as a soloist and at the same time records a discography including the Scarlatti Sonatas and a Mozart Recital. In 2014, his highly acclaimed debut in America with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra led him to sign for three consecutive concert seasons and to record a CD of the Schumann Concerto and Chopin’s Concerto in F minor, under the direction of JoAnn Falletta.
Prisca Benoit also devotes a large part of her time to teaching, for which she has a real passion. Jacques Rouvier will name her his assistant at the CNSM in Paris at a very young age, where she will teach from 1991 to 2020.
Prestigious musical institutions also invite him to give master classes (the Mozarteum in Austria, Tainan University in Taiwan, Cleveland State University, Bowling green University, James Madison University, Music faculty of Roanoke in the USA).
