
Elizabeth
Herbin was born in Paris.
Disciple
of Vlado Perlemuter at the CNSM of Paris where she enters at eleven years, she
obtains her first prizes of piano and chamber music. Elizabeth Herbin
benefits then from so
exceptional musical meetings: Nikita Magaloff, Aldo Ciccolini and
Konstanty Schmaehling who taught her Russian School méthods in the great
tradition of Anton Rubinstein, Lechetizky, Blumenfeld and Henrich
Neuhaus.
Her passion for
Beethoven will lead her to Wilhelm Kempff who will write: " Élizabeth
Herbin is an exceptional musical talent, her play has large and personal power
of expression".
In
1977, she receives the Foundation Sacha Schneider Prize.
Then
since her she'a been giving concerts in France and abroad. She plays
with various orchestral formations and of chamber music. She records for
the radio and television. Her vast repertory extends from Scarlatti to the
contemporary music.
Elizabeth Herbin teaches since 1979, in Paris, at the Jean-Philippe
Rameau Conservatory and gives master-class and concerts in France, Canada, Japan,
Poland, and then, in from 2002, in China.
Elizabeth Herbin has chosen lo live and prepare her concerts on the
Island of Ré since 1996. She organizes training courses of piano there in
order to transmit to the young musicians a teaching which combines a deepening
of the Art of the piano with that of the Art of living and of taking time to
observe Nature.
Elizabeth
Herbin is the daughter of the composer René Herbin, who died in air crash while
on a tour to Japon with the famous violinist Jacques Thibaud . In 1992, she
created the " Société Musicale René Herbin" (S.M.R.H) the
purpose of which is to make the œuvres of her father known. In 1993,
recording of a C.D devoted to the Quartets with piano of René Herbin and
Florent Schmitt (Gallo 711, Integral distribution).
In
projects; the recording of the Sonata for violin and piano with Patrice
Fontanarosa, and then, the Sonata for cello and piano, with Mark Drobinsky.