WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2012 8:00 PM
One of Fresno’s favorites, this French pianist returns for another display of his “quiet authority, extraordinary strength, and delicacy” (The Los Angeles Times) celebrating the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy’s birth in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on August 22, 1862. Jean-Philippe Collard has established his reputation worldwide as a leading soloist with orchestras, and as a recitalist, chamber musician, and recording artist with more than thirty titles to his credit, including the prize-winning Ravel Concerti with Lorin Maazel and the Orchestre National de France.