Francois de Larrard

Born in 1958, Dr. François de Larrard is a researcher in civil engineering. However, when he is not working for his laboratory (located in Lyon, eastern France), he pursues a number of activities related to his greater passion: music.

He is first of all a classical pianist. He studied piano since the age of 5, with various private professors, and has a final degree of the Ecole Nationale de Musique de Cachan (Virtuosity prize in 1987). He constantly practices and learns new piano pieces, and records some of them.

François is also a jazz pianist, fond of modern jazz and improvisation. In this field, he won a national (Concours de Jazz de la Défense, 1982) and international (Jazz Hoeilhart, 1985) prize as a soloist. He had various experiences with several groups, including, since 3 years, the BronXtet quartet with whom he gives regular concerts in the Lyon area.

François is also a composer, having more than 100 compositions in his catalogue, including many jazz themes but also various pieces of 'written' music for solo instruments, voice, chamber music and jazz big-bands;

François recorded a number of CD's (most of them being self-produced), including some French harpsichord music. More info can be found on his internet site: http://francoisdelarrard.chez-alice.fr

His composition catalogue can be seen here:
http://francoisdelarrard.chez-alice.fr/ ... logue.html

You can also listen his past jazz quintet Rose Vocat:
http://rosevocat.free.fr

and his current jazz quartet BronXtet:
http://www.bronxtet.fr

Francois de Larrard can be contacted at:
francois.de.larrard followed by @aliceadsl.fr


Recordings
(*harpsichord, otherwise piano)

Albeniz - Iberia
Bach - Chorale Preludes
Bach - English Suites
Bach - Goldberg Variations
Bach - Toccatas
Bach - Trio Sonatas
Beethoven - Sonatas
Beethoven/Liszt - Symphonies
Boccherini - Introduction and Fandango*
Brahms - Variations
Byrd - Variations*
Chopin - Scherzi
Couperin - L'Art de toucher le Clavecin*
Couperin - Ordres pour le Clavecin*
Debussy - Estampes
Debussy - Etudes
Debussy - L'isle Joyeuse
Falla - Siete Canciones populares españolas
Franck - Prelude, Choral et Fugue
Gibbons - Miscellaneous*
Handel - Six Fugues
Handel - Variations
Haydn - Sonatas
Larrard - Improvisations
Larrard - Diurnes pour clavecin
Larrard - Valses
Larrard - Variations
Liszt - Années de Pèlerinage
Liszt - Prelude and fugue on the name of B-A-C-H, S. 260
Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses
Rameau - Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin*
Rameau - Pièces de clavecin (1724)*
Rameau - Pièces de clavecin en concert*
Satie - Chapitres tournés en tous sens
Schubert - Sonatas
Schumann - Sonatas
Schumann - Waldszenen
Webern - Variations