Catherine Collard (11 August 1947 – 10 October 1993) was a French classical pianist.
She entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 14, where she studied with Yvonne Lefébure and Germaine Mounier. She was awarded the first prize in piano in 1964, and the first prize in chamber music in 1966. She won a number of prizes in competitions (the Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen, Fondation de la vocation amongst others), which began a career of distinction.[1] André Tubeuf, writing in Gramophone magazine, characterised her as "an artist too often classed in a line of descent from Clara Haskil but who, in her timbre and sonority, is without question much closer to Yves Nat."[2]
She was a frequent piano duo partner of Anne Queffélec. She was on the piano teaching faculty of the conservatoire of Saint-Maur. She died of cancer at the age of 46.
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Prelude and Fugue in A minor (Bach/Liszt), Prelude and Fugue in C major BWV 846
Archipel 4, Op. 10
Sonatas for cello and piano Nos. 1 and 2 (with Suzanne Ramon), Rhapsodie, Op. 79, Intermezzi, Op. 117, Klavierstücke, Op. 118
Préludes Books I et II, Etudes pour les sonorités opposées, Etudes pour les arpèges composés, Mélodies (with Nathalie Stutzmann)
Mélodies (with Nathalie Stutzmann)
Prélude, Chorale and Fugue, Quintet with the Quatuor Orlando; Violin Sonata in A with Régis Pasquier
Piano Concerto
Piano Sonatas (3 volumes)
Regard de l'Onction terrible
Sonates for flute and piano, K.376, K.296, K.377 (with Philippe Bernold)
Violin Sonata No. 1 (with Catherine Courtois)
Jeux d'eau, Mélodies (with Nathalie Stutzmann)
3 Gymnopédies and 6 Gnosiennes (with Anne Queffelec)
Klavierstücke, Op. 11
Carnaval, Papillons, Arabesques, Kinderszenen, Sonata in F minor, Davidsbündlertänze, Piano Concerto, Dichterliebe (with Nathalie Stutzmann), Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 (with Catherine Courtois)