About Jean-Bernard Pommier
Jean-Bernard Pommier (17 August 1944 – 23 April 2026) was a French pianist, conductor and academic teacher who made an international career. He was known for playing music by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. As a conductor, he led the Northern Sinfonia, the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino and Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra. From 2006 to 2008, he directed the Festival de Menton. He taught as professor at the École Normale de Musique de Paris from 2018. Jean-Bernard Pommier began playing the piano at the age of four and gave his first public concert at the age of seven. In 1963 Jean-Bernard Pommier and Eugene Istomin met each other in Sofia where Pommier played Ravel's Concerto in G minor for the first time.
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