Born in 1986 in Marseille, Pierre GENISSON is one of the best representatives of the French wind school. Laureate of the prestigious Carl Nielsen International Competition, he wins the 1st Prize and the Public Prize at the Jacques Lancelot International Competition in Tokyo. His records released on the Aparté label have been widely rewarded by the international critics (Diapason d’or, Choc de l’année de Classica, ffff de Télérama, “CD of the week” of the Sunday Times, Gramophone, Clef d’Or de Resmusica…). He is now an exclusive Warner Classics artist for whom he will release a Mozart CD in 2023. Pierre GENISSON trained at the CNSM in Paris with Michel Arrignon for clarinet, Claire Désert, Amy Flammer and Jean Sulem for chamber music. After obtaining first prizes unanimously in these two disciplines, he went to perfect his skills at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles with Yehud Gilad where he obtained an Artist Diploma. Pierre Genisson is regularly invited to perform as a soloist with numerous orchestras such as the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester-Berlin, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC orchestras, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Sichuan Symphony, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Jyvaskyla Symphony orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Orchestre Symphonique de Düsseldorf… and collaborates in particular with conductors such as Krystof Urbansky, Olari Elts, Darell Ang, Sacha Goetzel, Krysztof Penderecki, Alexandre Bloch, Lionel Bringuier… Passionate about chamber music, Pierre GENISSON multiplies musical encounters notably with numerous string quartets (Ebène, Modigliani, Jérusalem, Zemlinsky, Hermès, Voce, Van Kuijk…), and soloists such as David Kadouch, Renaud Capçon, Claire Désert, Franck Braley, Michel Dalberto, Natacha Kudritskaya, Florent Boffard, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Geneviève Laurenceau, Marc Bouchkov, Pierre Fouchenneret, Victor Julien Lafferière, François Salque, The Soloists of the Metropolitan Opera of New York, David Bismuth, Nicolas Dautricourt, Marielle Nordmann, Emmanuel Ceysson, Adrien Boisseau, François Dumont, Karine Deshayes, Delphine Haidan… Pierre GENISSON has a keen interest in musical creation and regularly collaborates with numerous composers such as Thierry Escaich, Karol Beffa, Philippe Hersant, Tristan Murail or even Eric Montalbetti….Pierre Genisson is thus the dedicatee of Eric Tanguy’s Clarinet Concerto. Active ambassador of the Buffet Crampon brand, he is invited to give numerous masterclasses in Europe, Asia, USA, Canada, Mexico and he teaches at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. The Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France awarded him in 2018 the “Cino del Duca” Interpretation Prize and he is also a laureate of the Banque Populaire, Safran, and “Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot” Foundations. In 2020, Pierre GENISSON recorded in London, with the BBC Concert Orchestra, for the Aparté label, a CD dedicated to Benny Goodman including jazz standards by the famous American composer and jazzman as well as pieces by Copland, Gershwin and Stravinsky created by Goodman. Now an exclusive Warner Classics artist, Pierre Genisson will release at the end of 2023 a 100% Mozart CD including, among other works from the end of the composer’s life, the Clarinet Concerto with the Concerto Köln ensemble.