Pascal Gallet was born in Savoie. His first television appearance at the age of 10 set him on the road to life as a pianist. He enrolled in Paris’s CNSM (Conservatoire national supérior de musique) at a young age, and studied under Pierre Sancan and then Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen and Eliane Richepin.

In 1987 he received a unanimous first place in the “cycle de perfectionnement”. He also became a fervent disciple of Teresa Llacuna. Pascal Gallet had the privilege of meeting Olivier Messiaen at this time and becoming close with the composer, who dedicated two movements of his Catalogue d’oiseaux to the young pianist.

Pascal Gallet became a laureate of the international competitions Viotti-Valsesia, Porto, Trapani, and the Fondation Menuhin

Pascal began a career as a piano soloist in France which branched out internationally. He has played with the Calgary Philharmonic, the UNAM Symphony (Mexico), the Duisberg Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany) conducted by Jonathan Darlington, the Belgrade Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, to name a few.

He has done numerous recital tours in Canada, in the United States (New York), and in Mexico, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Serbia, China, Taiwan and Japan. He has performed in prestigious concert halls such as the Gaveau, Théâtre du Châtelet, Salle Molière and the Opéra de Lyon. He has played with renowned French and international musicians, such as Marielle Nordmann, François-René Duchâble, Renaud Capuçon, le Quatuor Enesco and Joseph Silverstein.

Over the years Pascal has added numerous works to his repertoire by composers including Thierry Pecou, Henri Fourrès, Widmann, Sciortino, Dequing, and Jevtic.

Pascal Gallet is also an enthusiastic collaborator in other artistic disciplines and with the actors Macha Méril, Marie-Rose Carlié, Patrick Topaloff and Bernard Bilis, working on original productions where music takes a central role.

He also enjoys teaching and regularly gives classes at the Conservatoire National.

His first recording in 1998 was dedicated to Turina, and was compared to the interpretation by Alicia de Larocha. Other recordings devoted to Grieg, Chopin and Shostakovitch followed shortly thereafter, along with a disc entitled “Ballade impressionniste”. The composer André Jolivet takes pride of place for Pascal Gallet, who remains the only pianist in the world to record the composer’s complete piano works. These recordings were unanimously acclaimed and admired by experts in the press. A concert with the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany resulted in a live recording of the sole piano concerto by Jolivet.








Pascal Gallet has also been Artistic Director of the Piano à Fontmorigny international festival, which takes place each year during the Pentecost in a Cistercian abbey in Cher.

He has been featured on Radio Classique, France Musique, France Culture, France Inter, France 2, Arte, and Mezzo in programs hosted by Eve Ruggieri, Frédéric Lodéon, Laure Mezan, François Hudry, Anne Charlotte Reymond and Cécile Gilly.

Finally, Alain Lompech, Le Monde’s veteran music critic and journalist at Diapason magazine, writes:
“The performance of the sonata, on par with household names Alfred Cortot, Serge Rachmaninoff, Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire, is an excellent version, devoid of either hesitation or grandstanding."