{"id":4081,"date":"2025-07-29T08:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/teacher\/jean-francois-heisser\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:21:26","slug":"jean-francois-heisser","status":"publish","type":"teacher","link":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/teacher\/jean-francois-heisser\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Heisser"},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"instrument":[51],"class_list":["post-4081","teacher","type-teacher","status-publish","hentry","instrument-piano-en","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"name":"Heisser","first_name":"Jean-Fran\u00e7ois","photo":687,"instrument":[51],"teacher_biography":"Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Heisser is a well-rounded artist, leading a versatile career as a pianist, conductor and teacher, fueled by a vast cultural knowledge and tireless intellectual curiosity. Born in Saint-\u00c9tienne, France, he is the disciple and heir of Vlado Perlemuter, Henriette Puig-Roget and Maria Curcio.\r\n\r\nFrom 1991 to 2016, he was a professor at the Paris Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur de Musique. Among his talented students are Bertrand Chamayou and Jean-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Neuburger, with whom he has developed a relationship of close musical complicity.\r\n\r\nPresently, he balances his career between being a Musical Director for the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Chamber Orchestra (since 2001), a guest conductor, as a solo artist, and as an Artistic Director of various institutions and major musical productions. As a soloist, he has played under the baton of renowned conductors such as Janowski, Tilson Thomas, Segerstam, Krivine, Mehta, Plasson, Roth etc., with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Orchestre National de France or Les Si\u00e8cles, and more. He frequently performs in recitals, with a preference for Beethoven (Sonatas, Diabelli Variations etc.), Brahms, Chopin, the Spanish repertoire (Alb\u00e9niz, de Falla, Granados, Mompou), as well as the works of great French composers of the past and present.\r\n\r\nAlongside his performances of great concertos and major works of the piano repertoire, he is also an eager proponent: S. Poltronieri of 20th century works and contemporary creation: the Turangalil\u00e2-Symphonie and Olivier Messiaen\u2019s Des Canyons aux \u00c9toiles, under the direction of Mehta, Janowski or Segerstam; Karlheinz Stockhausen\u2019s Klavierst\u00fccke, Mantra and Kontakte; or the world first performance, among others, of Gilbert Amy and Nguyen Thien Dao\u2019s Piano Concertos, along with three major works by Philippe Manoury: La Ville, Ver\u00e4nderungen pour piano seul and Terra Ignota for piano and 22 musicians. His unequal approach to interpretation leads him to perform regularly on period pianos (Weber: The Four Sonatas \u2013 Praga Records -, Konzertst\u00fcck \u2013 on Mirare-). Under the direction of Fran\u00e7ois Xavier Roth and his orchestra \u201cLes Si\u00e8cles\u201d, he also alternates between modern pianos (the three Bartok concertos) and period instruments (Saint-Sa\u00ebns and Brahms).\r\n\r\nAs a chamber musician, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Heisser has, needless to say, covered the entire repertoire with musical partners such as the Ysaye, Lindsay and Pra\u017e\u00e1k Quartets, and his recording of the Bartok sonatas with Peter Csaba (on Praga) is now regarded as an essential work. Additionally, he has emerged as a leading advocate of the four-hands piano repertoire and of works for two pianos, notably with G. Pludermacher, M.J Jude and J.F Neuburger, and has also written daring and magnificent transcriptions for two pianos of works such as The Rite of Spring or the Symphonie Fantastique (recording with Marie-Jos\u00e8phe Jude \u2013 Harmonia Mundi Jan 19).\r\n\r\nAs a Musical Director, Heisser has been in charge of developing the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Chamber Orchestra project since 2001, firmly establishing the orchestra as one of the finest French chamber ensembles, as reflected in its recordings on the Mirare label: the orchestra\u2019s rendering of a primitive version of de Falla\u2019s El Amor Brujo as well as of Berg\u2019s Kammerkonzerte. Both recordings were widely acclaimed by the press. As an Artistic Director, his ongoing partnership with Editions Actes-Sud has led him to direct the musical program of the Soir\u00e9es Musicales d\u2019Arles. From 2015 onwards, he has served as the Artistic Advisor of the Festival de l\u2019Orangerie de Sceaux.\r\n\r\nMoreover, his extensive discography boasts over 40 recordings: after his highly acclaimed recording of the piano works of Paul Dukas (awarded the Diapason d\u2019or de l\u2019ann\u00e9e prize), he embarked on a collaboration with Erato Records (a 6-CD boxed set dedicated to the Spanish repertoire of Schumann, Brahms, Saint-Sa\u00ebns, Debussy, etc.), then with Na\u00efve Records (Beethoven, Brahms) and Praga Records (Weber, Berg, Manoury, Bartok\u2026). His recording activities are currently centered on recordings with the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Chamber Orchestra for Mirare. Albums include\u00a0de Falla, Wien 1925, Dubois, American Journey, Edition of the Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos\u00a0and more. More recently, recordings of Marie-Jos\u00e8phe Jude with Heisser\u2019s transcription for 2 pianos of the Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique (Harmonia Mundi) have been released.","accomplishments":[{"text_accomplishments":"1973: 1st Prize in piano, counterpoint, harmony, fugue, accompaniment and chamber music."}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teacher\/4081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teacher"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/teacher"}],"acf:term":[{"embeddable":true,"taxonomy":"instrument","href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/instrument\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"instrument","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/instrument?post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}