Emile Blondel
piano, keyboard

Pianist Emile Blondel, a native of Charlottesville, currently resides in Brooklyn, New York and has established himself as > a soloist, chamber musician, collaborative pianist, and jazz pianist. He holds BM and MM degrees in Piano Performance from the North Carolina School of the Arts where he studied with Eric Larsen. Mr. Blondel attended the Ecole Normal de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot, studying with Désiré N’Kaoua and Christian Ivaldi. He was named a Harriet Hale Woolley scholar by the Fondation des Etats-Unis in Paris and was awarded a residency at the Cité International des Arts in Paris for the 2004/2005 season, during which he premiered chamber works by Australian composer Paul Clift and American composer Christopher Trapani. Mr. Blondel has appeared with symphony orchestras such as the Heritage Chamber Orchestra, Durham and Richmond Symphonies, performing in concert halls throughout the eastern United States and in France. He has also indulged his passion for cham- ber music during seven seasons at the Meadowmount School of Music in upstate New York, where he received coaching from renowned chamber musicians Robert Mann, Joel Krosnick, and Paul Katz. He has performed with the Harrisburg Chamber Players and was pianist with the American Chamber Trio during three summer residencies at the Coolfont resort in West Virginia. Interested in innova- tions of new sounds in modern music, Mr. Blondel has performed George Flynn’s “American Nocturne” alongside the composer at DePaul University in Chicago. While living in France he studied jazz piano and jazz theory at the Bill Evans Academy in Paris.