Yves Rault was a French

France

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 pianist

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. He started to play the piano at age of six. From 1968 he lived in Saint-Jean-de-Luz

Saint-Jean-de-Luz

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 where he studied with Ada Labeque until he entered the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris: he completed his musical studies at the age of 17 winning a 1st Piano Prize (class of Yvonne Loriod

Yvonne Loriod

Yvonne Loriod was a French pianist, teacher, and composer, and the second wife of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the Ondes Martenot player Jeanne Loriod.-Life:...

) and a 1st Prize in Chamber Music (class of Geneviève Joy

Genevieve Joy

Geneviève Joy was a French classical and modernist pianist who, at the end of World War II in 1945, formed a critically acclaimed duo-piano partnership with Jacqueline Robin which lasted for forty-five years, until 1990...

). Subsequently, he attended the master-classes of eminent musicians such as Vlado Perlemuter

Vlado Perlemuter

Vlado Perlemuter was a Lithuanian-born French pianist.-Biography:Vlado Perlemuter was born to a Polish Jewish family, the third of four sons, in Kovno, Russia . At the age of three, he lost the use of his left eye in an accident.His family settled in France in 1907...

, Nikita Magaloff

Nikita Magaloff

Nikita Magaloff was a Georgian-Russian pianist.He was born in Saint Petersburg to a Georgian noble family named Maghalashvili. Magaloff and his family left Russia in 1918 for Finland and then Paris, where he studied with Isidor Philipp, chair of the piano department at the Paris Conservatory...

, Rafael Da Silva

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, Charles Rosen

Charles Rosen

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, György Sebök

Gyorgy Sebok

György Sebők was an internationally renowned pianist and Distinguished Professor at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington USA....

, Paul Badura-Skoda

Paul Badura-Skoda

Paul Badura-Skoda is an Austrian pianist.He won first prize in the Austrian Music Competition in 1947. In 1949, he performed with distinguished conductors like Wilhelm Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan...

 and Claude Helffer

Claude Helffer

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.

Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1979, he decided to perfect his skills in New York

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 studying at the Juilliard School

Juilliard School

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 with Jacob Lateiner

Jacob Lateiner

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 and William Masselos

William Masselos

William Masselos was an American classical pianist.-Biography:William Masselos was born in Niagara Falls, New York to a Dutch mother and a Greek father...

: in the meanwhile, he obtained the 1st Prize at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition

Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition

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. He also won several other International Piano Competitions (Maria Canals International Music Competition 2nd Prize in Barcelona

Barcelona

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, Marsala’s 2nd Prize, Vercelli’s 4th Prize, Epinal’s 4th Prize...). A dazzling career starts with new international awards: Grand Prize of the Charles Cros Academy with the violinist Raphael Oleg for their recording of Schumann’s Sonatas (1980), 3rd Prize and Special Prize of Contemporary Music at the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition

Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition

The Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition is a piano competition taking place in Santander, Spain every three years, organized by the Albéniz Foundation...

 in Santander

Santander, Cantabria

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 (1982), 1st Prize at the Ciudade do Porto International Piano Competition (1984).

These successes led him to give recitals around the world: France

France

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, Spain

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, Holland, Italy

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, Portugal

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, Switzerland

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, United States

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, Japan

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, Australia

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 and South Africa

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. He performed regularly with various orchestras (Radio France New Philharmonic Orchestra, Spanish Radio Television Orchestra, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse

Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse

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...). He was invited as a soloist by various foreign televisions and radios, and has also recorded for Radio France

Radio France

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 and French Television.

The eclecticism of his tastes led him to become interested in a diverse and sometimes unexplored repertoire (Ricardo Viñes

Ricardo Viñes

Ricardo Viñes was a Spanish pianist. He first publicly performed many important works by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Manuel de Falla, Déodat de Séverac and Isaac Albéniz. He was also the piano teacher of composer Francis Poulenc and pianist Léo-Pol Morin.He was born in Lleida,...

, Ernesto Nazareth

Ernesto Nazareth

Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth was a Brazilian composer and pianist, especially noted for his creative tango and Choro compositions.Ernesto Nazareth was born in Rio de Janeiro, one of five children. His mother, Carolina da Cunha gave him his first piano lessons...

, Guillaume Lekeu

Guillaume Lekeu

Guillaume Lekeu was a Belgian composer of classical music.- Life :Lekeu, who was born in Verviers, Belgium, took his first lessons at the conservatoire in that city. In 1879, his parents moved to Poitiers, France. There, he finished school while he continued his music studies autodidactically...

...) and his interest for the contemporary music made him participate in many first performances mainly with the Montpellier Philharmonic Orchestra and with several French contemporary musical ensembles such as 2E2M, GERM

Germ

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, Musique Oblique, and Contrechamps.

Rault died in Paris of AIDS on 16 September 1997, at the age of 39.