Jeanne-Marie Darré

Jeanne-Marie Darré studied at Conservatoire de Paris. Training under Marguerite Long and Isidor Philipp is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Camille Saint-Saëns. Employment is recorded with Conservatoire de Paris. Distinctions recorded are Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Legion of Honour.

Darré was born in Givet, France, in 1905. She studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Isidor Philipp and Marguerite Long, and worked with Fauré, Saint-Saëns and Ravel among others. She made her debut at the age of 14 and her first recordings at 16. When she was 21, she played all five of the Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos in a single concert with the Concerts Lamoureux orchestra, conducted by Paul Paray. She also recorded seven piano rolls for the Duo-Art system in the mid 1920s. She at first pursued her career in Europe, only performing in the United States for the first time in February 1962 at Carnegie Hall with Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and returning regularly until she retired from concert performance in the 1980s. She was a professor in the Paris Conservatoire from 1958 to 1975, was awarded the Légion d'honneur and was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. She died in 1999, aged 93, in Port Marly, France.

Jeanne-Marie Darré is recorded as having received Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Legion of Honour.