Paul-André Bempéchat

Bempéchat's research focuses on the interplay of music, literature and politics to examine the survival of minority cultures within France and the Hapsburg Empire. He is editor of, and contributor to, Liber amicorum Isabelle Cazeaux, 2005, and author of numerous scholarly and encyclopedic articles, as well as the forthcoming biography, Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters. A graduate of the Juilliard School, the Sorbonne and Boston University, Bempéchat is artist-scholar with the Institut Culturel de Bretagne. He also serves as president of the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations and is concurrently preparing several compact discs, including the complete piano works of Jean Cras and major works of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms. Bempéchat's multi-volume study of nationalism via impressionism, entitled Impressionism Beyond Paris, is expected in 2012.Curriculum Vitae (May 2009)Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters Flier (U.S.)Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters Flier (International)Dr. Bempéchat's recital of Franz Schubert's last three Sonatas, D. 958, D. 959 and D. 960, recorded live at Harvard's Memorial Church in April 2005, was broadcast at 4:00 pm Sunday, April 26, 2009 over Harvard Radio WHRB, 95.3 FM, and simultaneously over www.whrb.org.