Victory of Music in 2005 in the category "Instrumental Soloist of the Year" category, Pascal Amoyel was awarded in 2010 with a Grand Prix du Disque in Warsaw by the prestigious Chopin Society for its Quebec Nocturnes alongside Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire, a recording described as a "miracle that we no longer dared to hope, that we listen to mouth". His interpretation of Liszt's Funeral was also hailed as one of the historical references, and his Liszt Poetic and Religious Harmonies were named among the top five recordings of the year 2007 by the channel Arte.
At the age of 10, when he began his piano studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris (class of Marc André), he was soon noticed by Georges Cziffra that he followed in France and Hungary. At the age of 17, after a baccalaureate in science, he decided to devote himself entirely to music. Parallel to his studies he performed improvising in the cabarets of Montmartre. He obtained a concert bachelor's degree at the Ecole Normale de Paris, the First Prizes for Piano and Music de chambre at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris (class of Jacques Rouvier and Pascal Devoyon), became Laureate of the Fondations Menuhin et Cziffra, then won the First Prize at the Concours International des Jeunes Pianistes de Paris. He also received advice from Daniel Blumenthal, Aldo Ciccolini, Lazar Berman, Maria Curcio, Vera Gornostaeva, Dominique Merlet, Dériré N’Kaoua, Jacqueline Landowski, Lev Naoumov.
It is the beginning of an international career that leads him to perform on the greatest stages: Philharmonie de Berlin, Muziekgebouw d’Amsterdam, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Cité de la Musique and Salle Pleyel in Paris, United States, Canada, Russia, China, Korea ... and Festivals: La Roque d’Antheron, Folles Journées in Nantes, in Tokyo, La Chaise ...
Her recordings alone or with cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand have won the highest awards: Gramophone, Cannes Classical Awards, ffff de Télérama, Diapason d'Or de l'année, "Choc" of the world of Music, 10 of Classica, Grand Prix de la critique allemande...
A composer, Pascal Amoyel is a laureate of the Fondation d'Entreprise Banque Populaire. He is the author of the Job cycle, or God in the turmoil and Letter to the Woman loved about death (on poems by Jean-Pierre Siméon).
He was also involved in creating new forms of concert: his show Block 15, where resistive music (directing Jean Piat) was described as "very pure and touching research" by the director Peter Brook and was the subject of an adaptation for France Télévisions. He also wrote and created the only ones on the stage The 50-Finger Pianist or the Incredible Destiny of Gyurgy Cziffra, The Day I met Franz Liszt, and Looking for Beethoven (directed Christian Fromont) who were sold out at the Avignon Festival and for several months at the Théâtre Le Ranelagh in Paris, as well as the Théâtre Le Ranelagh in Paris. As a comedian, he collaborated and gave the replica to Jean Piat, Francis Huster and Brigitte Fossey. He also created "the strange concert" for piano and magic, and will donate his new creation "A Piano Lesson with Chopin" at the Théâtre Le Ranelagh from November 2024.
Professor of piano and improvisation at the CRR of Rueil-Malmaison and at Sciences Po, he created the Juniors Festival of which children are actors, including those with disabilities. He runs the Autumn Notes festival that he created, and is the sponsor of more than sixty creations (with Jean-Pierre Marielle, Barbara Hendricks, Natalie Dessay, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Raphael Enthoven, Richard Bohringer, Anne Roumanoff, Jacques Gamblin, Patrick Bruel ...). He is also an artistic advisor to the Estival de la Bâtie d'Urfé.
He is the author of the book Si la musique was t'est te (blue night), and produced a series of programmes on France Culture entitled "Une histoire de la musique". First Grand Prix Arts-Deux Magots rewarding "a musician with qualities of openness and generosity", Prix Jean-Pierre Bloch de la Licra for "the relationship with human rights in his work", Gold Medal of the Cultural Radiation of the French Renaissance, he is the godfather of the association APTE, which distributes music lessons to autistic children.
He was elevated to the ranks of a Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters, a Knight in the Order of Academic Palms and Knight in the National Order of Merit.