Pierre Génisson

Clarinetist Pierre Génisson, one of the most renowned representatives of the French wind school, has signed an exclusive contract with Warner Classics/Erato.
The first album from this new collaboration, dedicated to Mozart with Concerto Köln, complements an already extensive discography that has been unanimously praised by critics (Diapason d’or, Choc de l’année de Classica, ffff de Télérama, “CD of the week” from the Sunday Times, Gramophone, Clef d’Or de Resmusica…)

Awarded the “Cino del Duca” Prize by the Académie des Beaux-Arts de l’Institut de France in 2018, Pierre Génisson is also a laureate of prestigious international competitions such as the Carl Nielsen International Competition, the Jacques Lancelot International Competition in Tokyo, as well as the Banque Populaire, Safran, and “Musique et Vin au clos Vougeot” foundations.

Pierre Génisson trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Michel Arrignon for clarinet, and Claire Désert, Amy Flammer, and Jean Sulem for chamber music. After unanimously winning first prizes in both disciplines there, he furthered his studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles with Yehuda Gilad, where he earned an Artist Diploma.

Equally adept on modern and period instruments, Pierre Génisson is regularly invited to perform as a soloist with prestigious orchestras such as the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester-Berlin, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC orchestras, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, the Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Sichuan Symphony, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, the Insula Orchestra… and collaborates notably with conductors such as Krystof Urbansky, Olari Elts, Darell Ang, Sacha Goetzel, Alexandre Bloch, Laurence Equilbey, and Lionel Bringuier.

In addition to his solo activities, Pierre Génisson frequently engages in musical collaborations with some of the most renowned string quartets (Ebène, Modigliani, Jerusalem, Zemlinsky, Hermès, Van Kuijk…), as well as soloists such as Maxim Vengerov, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Nemanja Radulovic, Marc Bouchkov, Miguel Da Silva, Lise Berthaud, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, David Kadouch, Franck Braley, Michel Dalberto, David Bismuth, Bruno Fontaine, Les Solistes du Metropolitan Opera de New York, Patrick Gallois, Marielle Nordmann, Emmanuel Ceysson, Karine Deshayes, and Delphine Haidan.

A fervent advocate for contemporary music, Pierre Génisson promotes French music abroad and collaborates with numerous composers, notably Tristan Murail, Thierry Escaich, Eric Montalbetti, Karol Beffa, and Eric Tanguy, to whom several concerti and chamber music pieces are dedicated.

Pierre Génisson also dedicates part of his time to education, through numerous masterclasses worldwide and as a faculty member at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot.