Éric Le Sage is sitting at the piano, leaning on the instrument and looking at the camera, smiling.
Mar 29

Master Class III with Éric Le Sage, pianist

Geiger Torel, 80 Queen’s Park

Free event

The Faculty of Music is delighted to welcome pianist Éric Le Sage, Distinguished Visitor in Music 2023. This master class will be featuring undergraduate students in piano performance.

Schedule

Recital

March 30, 7:30pm (Works by Fauré, Schumann, and Mozart)

Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building

Free concert

Master Classes

  • March 28, 11-1pm | Boyd Neel - Undergraduate students
  • March 29, 4-6pm | Room 130 - Graduate students
  • March 29, 7-9pm | Geiger Torel - Undergraduate students
  • March 30, 10-12pm | Room 330 - Doctoral students
  • March 31, 11-1pm | Walter Hall - Chamber Music students

 

Éric Le Sage is established as a famous representative of the French piano school, regularly boasted for his very subtle sound, his real sense of structure and poetic phrasing. Already when he was 20 years old, the Financial Times had described him as “an extremely cultivated disciple of the great French tradition of Schumann piano”. In 2010, die Zeit, praised his “ideal French piano aesthetics and clarity.”

Eric is invited to perform as a soloist with orchestras at the highest level such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Saint-Louis Symphony Orchestra, Berlin’s Konzerthaus Orchester, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Bremer Philharmoniker, Dresden Philharmonie, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Göteborg Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Münchner Kammer Orchester, Dresdner Philharmonie, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Bordeaux-Aquitaine, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Métropolitain, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, with conductors like Edo de Waart, Stéphane Denève, Pablo Gonzalez, Fabien Gabel, Sir Jeffrey Tate, François Leleux, Alexander Liebreich, Kazuki Yamada, Alondra de la Parra, Lionel Bringuier, François Leleux, Michael Stern, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Sir Simon Rattle and Yannick Nézet-Seguin.

Eric has performed recitals and chamber music concerts in major venues across the world such as Wigmore Hall, Suntory Hall, Carnegie Hall, Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle, Paris Philharmonie, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Radio France, Cologne Philharmonie, Essen Philharmonie, Dresden Philharmonie, Frankfurt’s Alte Oper, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Schwartzenberg’s Schubertiade, Salzburg Mozarteum, Ludwigsburg Festival, Prague’s Rudolfinium, Taipei National Concert Hall, Konzerthaus Vienna, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Dublin’s celebrity series, Edinburgh International Festival, Düsseldorf Tonhalle, la Roque d’Anthéron Festival, Potsdam Sanssouci, Brussels’ Bozar, Berlin’s Boulezsaal, Konzerthaus Berlin, Berlin Philharmonie.

Eric Le Sage released many albums, all of which were critically acclaimed and received multiple awards. Besides his world-famous Schumann cycle in 2010 that were awarded the very prestigious Jahrespreis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, other milestones include Francis Poulenc's complete chamber works with piano (BMG, 1998), Fauré's complete works for chamber music with piano, and Brahms complete chamber music works (B-Records, 2021). Two magnificent albums were released in 2022: A Mozart album under the baton of his longtime stage partner François Leleux and the Gävle Symphony Orchestra on Alpha (concertos n° 17&24) and a solo album on Sony Classical featuring rare French repertoire from the beginning of the 20th century. In the last few years Eric released Fauré’s complete Nocturnes on Alpha (2019) and Beethoven's last 3 Sonatas (2014).

Other recent chamber music recordings include collaborations with such artists as tenor Julian Pregardien for a Schumann album (2019) or Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Daishin Kashimoto, Aurélien Pascal and more for albums around repertoire from Vienna in the 1900s, and works by Nino Rota. A true chamber music lover, Eric regularly plays with friends like Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Quatuor Ebène, François Leleux, Jean-Guihen Queyras, les Vents Français, François Salque, Lise Berthaud, Daishin Kashimoto, Claudio Bohorquez, Julian Prégardien, Sandrine Piau, Olivier Latry and many other musicians.

Born in Aix en Provence, Eric Le Sage was the winner of major international competitions such as Porto in 1985 and the Robert Schumann competition in Zwickau, in 1989. He was also a prize-winner at Leeds International competition the same year, which allowed him to perform under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle.

Eric Le Sage is Professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany.

 

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- [ Add to Calendar ] 2023-03-29 23:00:00 2023-03-30 01:00:00 Master Class III with Éric Le Sage, pianist <p>Geiger Torel, 80 Queen’s Park</p> <p>Free event</p> <p>The Faculty of Music is delighted to welcome pianist Éric Le Sage, Distinguished Visitor in Music 2023. This master class will be featuring undergraduate students in piano performance.</p> <p><u>Schedule</u></p> <p><strong>Recital</strong></p> <p>March 30, 7:30pm (Works by Fauré, Schumann, and Mozart)</p> <p>Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building</p> <p>Free concert</p> <p><strong>Master Classes</strong></p> Bloor St. Culture Corridor info@perceptible.com America/Toronto public

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