Jean Fassina

Jean Fassina (born 9 November 1936) is a French classical pianist born in Algiers.

A concert artist and direct heir to the Paderewski piano tradition, Fassina is a teacher who counts among his students a host of French and international artists.[livre 1]

Biography Fassina's grandmother was a pianist and composer, and his mother performed in concert and was his first teacher. He was trained at a very young age at the Conservatoire de Paris. After winning his prizes there, Fassina felt the desire to go and study in Eastern European countries, where the results of the teaching given there worked wonders in international competitions: "When not one but twenty pianists dazzle you, there is something obvious about it".

Fassina obtained a scholarship that allowed him to study in Poland. He completed his training as a pianist in Kraków, the high place of the Polish piano school, under the benevolent guidance of Henryk Sztompka, himself a former student of Paderewski and worthy heir of an instrumental and stylistic tradition going back to Chopin and Liszt.

In the first lesson, Sztompka told him "You are a musician, but you have to do everything over again...". Thus began four years of intensive work which Fassina himself describes as "the most extraordinary of his life".

After a short and intense concert career from 1961 to 1975,

Pupils More than a hundred internationally known musicians have been students of Fassina such as: Jacques Rouvier Michel Béroff Olivier Gardon Jean-Rodolphe Kars Jacqueline Bourges-Mounoury Jean-Louis Haguenauer Beate Perrey

Master classes Fassina is the permanent guest of prestigious master classes: Institut supérieur de musique et de pédagogie as well as the Higher Conservatories and Universities of Porto, Brussels, Bucharest, Beijing, Tokyo, Osaka.

Jury of international competitions He also sits on the jury of numerous international competitions: Concours international P.T.N.A (Japan 2003) Concours international Frédéric Chopin de Moscou (Russia 2004) Concours international de Musique de Porto (Portugal 2002 and 2004) Concours international de Musique du Maroc (March 2013) Piano Campus International Competition (Pontoise, France, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2011)