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Gabriel Tacchino (; 4 August 1934 – 29 January 2023) was a French classical pianist and teacher.
His early prizes included the Viotti Competition (1st prize, 1953); the Busoni Competition (1954, 2nd prize); Casella International Competition (1954; 1st prize); the Geneva Competition (1955; joint 2nd prize with Malcolm Frager); and the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition (1957, 4th prize).
Herbert von Karajan was instrumental in Tacchino getting his break, by engaging him to play with various orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic. His United States debut was in 1962, with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He performed under conductors such as Pierre Monteux, André Cluytens, Jascha Horenstein, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, and many others. Other orchestras with which he played include the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, English Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Montreal Symphony Orchestra and many others. He was also a regular solo performer on the concert platformJean-Pierre Thiollet, 88 notes pour piano solo, "Solo nec plus ultra", Neva Editions, 2015, p.51. . and also held master classes.
Tacchino also played chamber music with notables such as Isaac Stern, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Pierre Amoyal, Maxence Larrieu, and others.
His recordings included the complete music for piano by Poulenc, which was reissued by EMI on five CDs in 2005; the complete piano concertos (five each) by Saint-Saëns and Sergei Prokofiev for Vox; and works by J. S. Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Franck, Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Addinsell, and others for recording labels such as Erato Records and Pierre Verany.
Having taught at his alma mater the Paris Conservatoire 1975–1994, Answers.com he later taught at the University of Fine Arts and Music (Geidai) in Tokyo, the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Académie internationale d'été de Nice, and at the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
David Dubal wrote of Tacchino: "A splendid pianist. His playing is buoyant and well planned."David Dubal, The Art of the Piano: Its Performers, Literature, and Recordings (A Harvest Book: San Diego, 1995) p. 250
Tacchino died on 29 January 2023, at the age of 88.
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