This document provides biographical information about pianist Didier Castell-Jacomin and details of his recent recording projects. It describes his early musical training and key teachers. His most recent recording on the Integral Classic label, called "REGARDS", features works by female composers and will be released in October 2012. It will be presented in Paris in November as part of the music season "Autour du Piano". The recording reflects Castell-Jacomin's interest in sharing music from underrepresented composers.

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« REGARDS »
Octobre 2012 Didier Castell-Jacomin
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Teldex Studio Berlin
Didier Castell-Jacomin, piano
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Life Life
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From here, the label CRISTAL RECORDS CLASSIC has given me confidence in the
It was at the age of four that Mrs Ravel was my first
course of my travels and in 2009 I recorded a Chopinrecital, (POLONIA).
music teacher, this was in Nice. She introduced me to
In 2010 the annual magazine PIANO (by La lettre du musicien)offered me to record
her piano and thanks to her encouragement and that of
a CD solely dedicated to Russian composers (TENDRESSE RUSSE) and to be inser-
my parents I continued my studies at the conservatoire
ted in the 2011 edition.
in Rennes and consequently in Nice.
I did accept that proposal with pleasure.
In Senlis I met Georgy Cziffra when I was only eight.
In 2010 I got the idea to record a CD with only music from female composers, thus
For two years I had the privilege of his tuition.
I could now record at the famous TELDEX studio in Berlin. The label INTÉGRAL
Catherine Collardcame into my life during a summer
CLASSIC recently sent me the papers to sign for this recording, which will be relea-
apprenticeship in Aix-en-Provence in 1987. I could
sed in October 2012 and which I shall present in France in November next in Salle
continue to have her education in Nice as well as in St-
Cortot. This programme drew the attention of concert organisers and will travel
Maur-des-Fossés. This great artist really taught me the
among others to Berlin, Brussels, Louvain, Hamburg, Paris, Nice, Toulouse, Maastricht,
perseverance to overcome the technical problems and
New York Very recently, my CD Mozart Concerti K.414 and K.415 (ed. Calliope) has
to reach for what is called interpretation.
been reedited in Canada Under the label A-Tempo directed by Mr R. L. Chayer. It will be
It was, though, in 1989 that my view of playing the piano was completely turned
available everywhere through internet (downloading)
upside down. One day it happened that I was early for my lesson of sight-reading,
at the conservatory with Mrs F. Chaffiaud. So I waited behind the door. I could hear
sounds coming from the room where I was to have my lessons. I pricked my ears
and to my great surprise I recognized the Fantasyof Schumann, performed in a mas-
terly way. Cautiously I opened the door and I saw my teacher of sight-reading at the
piano. My asthonishment grew, to see and hear at that very moment a teacher of
sight-reading playing so extraordinary! I knew then and there that no one but
MrsChaf fiaudcould give me the keys to that approach to the piano. She has then
taught me privately for a full year. Towards the end of this period she confessed to
me that she had her Maestro Fausto Zadra to thank for this approach to music.
Mrs Chaffiaud then introduced me to him. I was admitted at the École Internationale
Fondation CIEM Mozartin Lausanne in Rome, under the direction of Maestro Zadra.
For me this was really both a musical and an emotional turn. This man gave me what
I was mostly looking for in this world: the means to express myself through music
and in particular through the piano. I owe everything I know now to Fausto Zadra
and to his assistant Mrs Anne-Marie Tabachnik. After his decease I continued my
search in the direction Maestro Zadra had pointed out to me, in order to reach as
The following year, also with CALLIOPE, I wanted to record a recital of various
pieces of Mozart, the famous Sonata in Do Majeur, as well as the two Fantasies. I
CD « REGARDS » will be officially
was so lucky to play with the Quartet Joaquim, with whom I had played de Concerti presented in PARIS in the music
K.414 and K.415 in the original version in the mediaeval University Centre of Nice.
andTokyo.
season « Autour du Piano »
November 24th 2012
SALLE CORTOT