Jean-Bernard Pommier

Jean-Bernard Pommier (born August 17, 1944 in Beziers), is a French pianist and conductor.

The French pianist, Jean-Bernard Pommier, began playing the piano at the age of four and gave his first public concert at the age of seven. He studied piano with Yves Nat and Pierre Sancan and conducting with Eugene Bigot at the Paris Conservatoire. Later, he also worked with Eugene Istomin in New York. In 1960, he received first prize in the Young Musicians International Competition in Berlin and the following year he was awarded the "Prix de la Guilde des Artistes Solistes Francais".

In 1962, aged 17, he was the finalist at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, where he was awarded First Honorable Mention by the jury presided over by Emil Gilels. Since that triumph, he has appeared with such eminent conductors as Herbert von Karajan, Bernard Haitink, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Muti, Kurt Masur, Kurt Sanderling, Leonard Slatkin, Edo de Waart, Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta and Daniel Barenboim under whose direction he performed the complete series of L.v. Beethoven concertos with the Orchestre de Paris. He is also regularly invited to the world' s most prestigious festivals and his recital and concerto appearances have included all major centers such as London Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig, Dresden, Royal Concertgebouw, Orchestre philharmonique de Paris, Moscow, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

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