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Istomin, Stern and Rose were in residence, and gave numerous concerts as soloists and as a trio. He then spent a month in Meadow Brook, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s summer residence. In the summer of 1966, Jean-Bernard Pommier was invited to play with the Dallas Symphony as part of a French music festival. I am honored to have been his teacher -the teacher of an exceptional student!” Jean-Bernard’s career was already well launched! I cannot take the glory for this – it is Jean-Bernard who deserves all the credit. It was not a master-student relationship, but an on-going dialogue between colleagues. We have established a transatlantic relationship, punctuated by my travels to Europe. “Jean-Bernard wanted to take some lessons with me.

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There was a very special atmosphere -you could just imagine that there were microphones everywhere.”Įugene Istomin recounts the evolution of what was to become a very free pedagogical relationship We had lunch together, and I attended the party which was given in his honor at the United States Embassy. I went to see him at the Bulgaria Hall where he was practicing, and he very kindly asked me to play for him. He complimented me on the Ravel Concerto and suggested that we meet again. I also played for the pianists who participated – for Horszowski, for Haskil, for Kapell – but, strangely enough, I had not played for him. I recognized him immediately, as I had seen him in Prades when I was very young -my father used to take me to the festival concerts.

Eugene came into my dressing room at intermission and introduced himself, in French.

It was the first time I played Ravel’s Concerto in G. I was giving a concert conducted by Jerzy Semkow. Jean-Bernard Pommier recalls his first meeting with Istomin