Thierry Huillet


Thierry Huillet is a French pianist and composer of classical and contemporary classical music.
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As pianist

Born in Toulouse, Huillet won first prize at the Conservatoire de Paris where he was a pupil of Pierre Sancan and Germaine Mounier.
In 1987, Huillet won first prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition. He is also laureate of the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition et du International Music Competition of Japan.
Il a été invité à jouer dans des salles prestigieuses et avec de nombreux grands orchestres.
A teacher at the, he is regularly invited to sit as a jury in major international piano competitions.
He forms a duo with violinist and violist Clara Cernat, his wife.

As composer

Huillet started composing very late. Nevertheless, his work, very lyrical, already contains more than a hundred opus among which concertos, chamber music including a concert for piano and violin Le petit prince. He has also produced numerous transcriptions.
His works are created by great artists but also by the "duo Cernat-Huillet" or the "trio Huillet" where the couple is joined by clarinetist Gari Cayuelas-Krasznai.

Discography

  • * 1997 - Récital live -
  • * 1997 - Récital : Brahms, Beethoven, Fauré, Enescu, Bloch -  Clara Cernat, violin 
  • * 1998 - Les Révélations de l’ADAMI au MIDEM de Cannes » - éd. ADAMI
  • * 1998 - Chausson, Concert, Poème, Paysage, Dédicace - Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Clara Cernat, dir. Ludovic Bacs
  • * 1999 - Rêveur, tzigane et diabolique, éd. Mezzanotte/ DVD
  • * 1999 - Enesco, Sonatas for violin and piano - Clara Cernat, violin 15,
  • * 2001 - Bloch, Pieces for violin and piano - Clara Cernat, violin 16
  • * 2003 - Turina, Sanluqueña - Clara Cernat, violin éd. Lelia Productions
  • * 2003 - The European Anthem / L'Hymne Européen - Rhapsody On The European Anthem éd. GEMA Waterpipe Records
  • * 2006 - Pianiste, Œuvres pour 2 pianos de Sergueï Rachmaninov - Thierry Huillet et Maurizio Baglini - éd. Lelia Productions
  • * 2006 - Chamber music by Maurice Ravel - Thierry Huillet, Stéphane Tran Ngoc et Xavier Gagnepain, éd. REM
  • * 2006 - Piano Romantique - éd. Apogée
  • * 2006 - Poèmes lyriques & Musiques ingénues, works by Jean Clergue and Marcel Dardigna» -
  • * 2006 - Miniatures #2 - Clara Cernat, alto; Ciortea, Marbé, Enacovici, Capoianu, Huillet, Bartók
  • * 2008 - Kunc, Édition du cinquantenaire
  • * 2008 - Rêveur, tzigane et diabolique » -
  • * 2009 - Intégrale de l’œuvre pour piano solo de Thierry Huillet  - Ed. Mezzanotte
  • * 2014 - Folies! : contemporary creation and a new transcription - Henry Purcell, Bach, Thierry Huillet -
  • * 2015 - Tzigane et diabolique : Saint-Saëns, Ravel, Liszt, Huillet, Cernat, Porumbescu, Monti, Sarasate
  • * 2015 - Thierry Huillet, Œuvres pour violon et piano & pour piano seul, Clara Cernat, violin
  • * 2015 - Les plus beaux arrangements de la musique classique arr. for violin and piano - Clara Cernat, violon
  • * 2016 - 7 fables de La Fontaine - creation inspired by lafontaine's fables Thierry Huillet, piano et Clara Cernat, violin
  • * 2017 - Thierry Huillet et le Haïku éd. Lelia productions
  • * 2017 - 5 Haïku Papillon - Clara Cernat, violin
  • * 2018 - Musique pour alto, clarinette et Piano - Clara Cernat, alto; Gari Cayuelas, clarinet; Thierry Huillet, piano
  • * 2019 - Un Requiem & Prélude pour alto et orchestre de Thierry Huillet - Laura Tatulescu, Sarah Defrise, Clara Cernat, Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse
  • * 2021 - Buenos Aires de Thierry Huillet - Clara Cernat, violin
  • * 2021 - Romanian Rhapsodies of Thierry Huillet - Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse, Clara Cernat violin soloist