Thierry Huillet


Thierry Huillet is a French pianist and composer of classical and contemporary classical music.

As pianist

Born in Toulouse, Huillet won first prize at the Conservatoire de Paris where he was a pupil of Pierre Sancan and Germaine Mounier.
In 1987, Huillet won first prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition. He is also laureate of the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition et du International Music Competition of Japan.
Il a été invité à jouer dans des salles prestigieuses et avec de nombreux grands orchestres.
A teacher at the, he is regularly invited to sit as a jury in major international piano competitions.
He forms a duo with violinist and violist Clara Cernat, his wife.

As composer

Huillet started composing very late. Nevertheless, his work, very lyrical, already contains more than a hundred opus among which concertos, chamber music including a concert for piano and violin Le petit prince. He has also produced numerous transcriptions.
His works are created by great artists but also by the "duo Cernat-Huillet" or the "trio Huillet" where the couple is joined by clarinetist Gari Cayuelas-Krasznai.

Discography