Pierre Mollet [SEP] voice type
Pierre Mollet
Pierre Mollet (23 March 1920, Neuchâtel - 27 October 2007) was a Canadian operatic baritone of Swiss birth. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1974 and in 1979, he married the Canadian pianist Suzanne Blondin.
Mollet was trained at the Lausanne Conservatory where he was a pupil of Charles Panzéra. In 1946 he won second prize at the Geneva International Music Competition. The following year he began studies in music interpretation with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, France and became highly active performing as a concert soloist
extensively for nearly forty years. Besides Fauré, he worked personally with and sung the premières of works by Vincent d'Indy, Albert Roussel, Guy Ropartz, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud and many others.
In 1949, he was appointed a professor at the Paris Conservatory, remaining till 1966. He also taught voice at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Among his notable pupils were the composer Gabriel Cusson, the musicologist Alain Daniélou, the opera singer Pierre Mollet and the soprano Caroline Dumas.
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