Clarinetist Pierre Génisson is one of the most renowned representatives of the French wind school. Rewarded in 2018 by the “Cino del Duca” Prize awarded by the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institut de France, Pierre Génisson is also the winner of prestigious international competitions such as the Carl Nielsen International Competition, the Jacques Lancelot International Competition of Tokyo as well as the Banque Populaire, Safran, and “Musique et Vin au clos Vougeot” foundations.

As skilled on modern instruments as on ancient instruments, Pierre Génisson is regularly invited to perform as a soloist with prestigious orchestras such as the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester-Berlin, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC orchestras, Orchestre Metropolitain de Montréal, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Turku Philharmonic, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Concerto Köln, Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Sichuan Symphony, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Orchestre National d'Ile de France, Orchestre de Bretagne, Orchestre de Montpellier, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Düsseldorf Symphoniker, Insula Orchestra.

Pierre collaborates with world-renowned conductors such as Krystof Urbansky, Olari Elts, Gergely Madaras, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Darell Ang, Sacha Goetzel, Veronika Eberle, Andreas Ottensamer, Alexandre Bloch, Laurence Equilbey, Ton Koopman, Lionel Bringuier.

He is regularly invited in festival such as Verbier, Gstaad, Crans Montana, Hong Kong, Bremen Festival, Würzburg MozartFest, Tsinandali, Hambourg Martha Argerich, Musikfestpiele Dresde, Menton, Colmar, Evian, Festival Ravel Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Flâneries Musicales de Reims, Festival du Périgord Noir, Six-Fours-les-Plages, Royan Jeudis Musicaux, Un Violon sur le Sable, Festival d'Auvers sur Oise, Orangerie de Sceaux...

In addition to his activities as a soloist, Pierre Génisson multiplies musical encounters with some of the most famous string quartets (Ebène, Modigliani, Jerusalem, Zemlinsky, Hermès, Van Kuijk, etc.), as well as soloists such as Maxim Vengerov, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Nemanja Radulovic, Marc Bouchkov, Miguel Da Silva, Lise Berthaud, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, David Kadouch, Frank Braley, Denis Kozhukhin, Antoine Tamestit, Steven Isserlis, Daniel Müller-Schott, Michel Dalberto, David Bismuth, Bruno Fontaine, The Soloists of the Metropolitan Opera of New York, Patrick Gallois, Marielle Nordmann, Emmanuel Ceysson , Karine Deshayes or Delphine Haidan.

A fervent defender of today’s music, Pierre Génisson promotes French music abroad and collaborates with many composers, including Tristan Murail, Thierry Escaich, Eric Montalbetti, Karol Beffa and Eric Tanguy, to whom he is dedicated. of several concerti and chamber music pieces. Pierre Génisson also devotes part of his time to transmission, through numerous masterclasses around the world and at the Normal School of Music in Paris Alfred Cortot, where he is a teacher.

Pierre Génisson is an exclusive Erato-Warner artist since 2023. This season, he records both Weber concertos with Salzburg Mozarteum and Gabor Takacs-Nagy, to be released in 2026. The first album of this new collaboration is dedicated to Mozart, with Concerto Köln, and completes an already rich discography unanimously acclaimed by critics (Diapason d’or, Choc de l’année de Classica, ffff de Télérama, “CD of the week” from the Sunday Times, Gramophone, Clef d’Or from Resmusica…).

Latest release in November 2024 : "Songbook", featuring works from the Great American Songbook, with guests such as Monica Bellucci, Lambert Wilson, Youn-Sun Nah, Kimberose, in transcriptions by pianist Bruno Fontaine.

Pierre Génisson trained at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris with Michel Arrignon for clarinet, and Claire Désert, Amy Flammer and Jean Sulem for chamber music. After having obtained the first prizes unanimously in these two disciplines, he went to perfect his skills at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles with Yehuda Gilad where he obtained an Artist Diploma.

Pierre Génisson is an active Ambassador for the Buffet Crampon and Vandoren brands.

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• Last Update : 28.10.2025