Jean-Louis Haguenauer


Jean-Louis Haguenauer is a French classical pianist.

Biography

Born in Paris, Haguenauer has taken courses in music analysis, writing and music composition with Nadia Boulanger and Henri Dutilleux. He worked with Louis Hiltbrand, Germaine Mounier, Alfred Loewenguth and Jean Fassina.
In chamber formation, he works notably with Jeff Cohen, Alexis Galpérine, Annick Roussin, Jaime Laredo, Pierre-Henri Xuereb, Atar Arad, Arnaud Thorette, Cécilia Tsan, Sharon Robinson, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Patrick Gallois, Thomas Robertello, Michel Lethiec, James Campbell, the Ebène Quartet, the Fine Arts Quartet, the Stanislas Ensemble, Les Percussions de Strasbourg and the "Accroche-Notes" ensemble. From 1991 to 1997, he was a member of the Florence Gould Hall Chamber Players, and from 2003 to 2007, of the American Chamber Players.
Haguenauer has been invited to the Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron, La Folle Journée of Nantes, the Radio France-Montpellier festival, the Church of the Jacobins in Toulouse, the Orangerie de Sceaux, the Vichy opera, the Library of Congress, and the Kreeger Museum festivals.
For the past twenty years, he has formed a duo with tenor Gilles Ragon, with whom he has deepened the repertoire of French mélodies and lieder.
From 1988 to 1998, he taught the piano at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg.
In 2012, he finished the first complete recording of Claude Debussy's melodies, made in Brive-la-Gaillarde, on the composer's piano kept at the Brive Museum.
He currently lives in the United-States and teaches at the Indiana University Bloomington.

Discography