Catherine Collard

Pianist Catherine Collard's specialties included works by such composers as Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Franz Joseph Haydn, but she also incorporated works by prominent 20th century composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Gilbert Amy, and Olivier Messiaen. She was a notable educator, and her recording career spanned more than two decades. Collard was born on August 11, 1947, in the Thuir commune in southern France. At 14, she entered the Paris Conservatory, studying with Germaine Mounier, Yvonne Loriod, and Yvonne Lefébure, among others. While there, she earned First P...