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Alexandre Sorel

Member of the jury, 2025

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Alexandre Sorel is a concert pianist with a particular fondness for Chopin. He was pianist at the Comédie-Française and has accompanied some of the greatest actors, including Edwige Feuillère, Denise Gence, Gisèle Casadesus and Lambert Wilson. Alexandre Sorel was also the official pianist at the Musée d'Orsay for many years, playing French music - Fauré, Ravel, Debussy...... - as well as waltzes, polkas and mazurkas every Sunday afternoon. As a result, he has revived a number of composers who had fallen into oblivion, including Emile Waldteufel, of whom he has become the leading specialist (Ma vie est une Valse published by Euphonia), as well as Marie Jaëll, Marcailhou d'Aymeric and Ernesto Nazareth. Through concerts and seven CDs, Alexandre Sorel has given these works their world premiere, reviving this forgotten French musical heritage. His recordings have won rave reviews from the press - Le Monde, Le Point, L'Express, Diapason - and the highest discographic awards (Diapason d'Or). On the radio, Alexandre Sorel has produced a number of programmes for France-Culture and France-Musique. His series on Emile Waldteufel, broadcast several times on France-Musique, was published by Radio-France in a 2-CD set Radio-France-INA. Today, Alexandre devotes most of his time to his concert activity. He performs regularly in recital, interpreting the classical and romantic repertoire, with a predilection for Chopin and Schubert. 

While being a concert pianist, Alexandre Sorel is a passionate pedagogue : teacher at the Gennevillers conservatoire, he has also written many articles on how to teach piano. Between 2011 and 2018, he led the pedagogy of the Pianiste magazine, through which he offered the readers pieces to study, wrote technical advice and recorded himself performing many masterpieces of piano. 

Alexandre Sorel has just published a piano method for beginner kids, editions Henry Lemoine and called : La Méthode Bleue. This work is fully based on the pieces of advice Chopin had given to his own students ; prefaced by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, La Méthode Bleue is thus fully following Chopin's pianistic tradition. 

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