Complete Piano Sonatas

Jean-Bernard Pommier was born in Beziers in the south of France. He 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.

International recognition came fast. After winning the Berlin Young Musicians International Competition and, aged seventeen, becoming the youngest finalist at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, he has embarked on a career which has taken him to all of the world's leading concert halls. At the same time, he began recording with EMI.

Ten years later, he began a long period of collaboration with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Berlin and Salzburg. He plays with many other distinguished musicians including Boulez, Barenboim, Haitink, Mazur, Mehta, Muti, Rattle. His recital and concerto appearances have included major centres such as London, Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Amsterdam, Paris, Moscow, Chicago and New York.

Jean-Bernard Pommier is enjoying an active career as a conductor working with major orchestras in Europe and America.

Pommier also frequently takes up the dual role of pianist and conductor with a.o. the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Northern Sinfonia of England.