He is a French violinist, chamber musician and teacher
whose father was the violist Pierre pasquier.He began studying the instrument from a very young age and
entered the Paris Conservatoire to study violin and when in 1958, when he
was twelve, he won the first prize for violin and chamber music.When he was fourteen he travelled to
the United States to perform a recital and here he met many esteemed
musicians that included Nadia Boulanger, David Oistrakh, and Isaac Stern
and also after being heard by Zino Francescatti he would later be called
upon to collaborate with him on a recording of “Concerto for Two Violins”
by Johann Sebastian Bach.This
was enough to set him on his way in a highly successful career in music
where he has performed with the world’s major orchestras and been led by many
of the most acclaimed conductors such as Alain Lombard and Georges Szell. 1970
saw him forming the New Pasquier Trio with the violist Bruno Pasquier and
the cellist Roland Pidoux.His
recordings are many and include Claude Debussy: Les Trois Sonates, Mozart:
Flute Concertos. Prokofiev: Sonatas for Violin and Piano with Pascal
Roge, Paganini: Caprices Op. 1 and Penderecki: Sextet/Clarinet
Quartet/Cello Divertimento, Ravel: Chamber Works and Saint-Saens:
Carnival of the Animals: Organ Symphony among many others.1994 saw him stepping into the
world of the silver screen where he is a featured violinist in the movie Le
Colonel Chabert.Recognised
for his contribution to music he was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
in 1985, to add to his other awards which have included the Charles Cros
Prize, the Georges Enesco Prize and the French Record Academy Prize.Venturing into the field of musical
education in 1985 he took the position of Professor of Violin and Chamber
Music at the Paris Conservatory and has taught there ever since.
