Partners
The teachers who formed him and the musicians he shared the stage with.
Teachers and mentors
Mina Kosloff
A Russian-school pianist who gave him his first lessons at four.
Yves Nat
Pommier was his last pupil.
Pierre Sancan
His professor at the Conservatoire; they recorded Mozart's K. 365 together in 1964.
Eugène Bigot
Taught him conducting in Paris.
Eugene Istomin
Forty years of dialogue. Pommier admired in him “an artistic consciousness of great rarity.”
Pablo Casals
His father introduced him to Casals as a child.
Conductors
Herbert von Karajan
A long collaboration, including Mozart concertos.
Emil Gilels
His jury gave the seventeen-year-old a diploma of honour.
Jerzy Semkow
Conducted his first Ravel G major.
Pierre Boulez
Daniel Barenboim
Zubin Mehta
Bernard Haitink
Kurt Masur
Riccardo Muti
Simon Rattle
Richard Hickox
Conducted his recording of Poulenc's Piano Concerto.
Arvid Jansons
Conducted his Melodiya recording of Mozart's K. 488.
Dimitri Chorafas
His first concerto records: Beethoven's "Emperor" and Mozart.
Lawrence Foster
Tchaikovsky's First and Rachmaninov's Second Concertos on record.
Yoel Levi
Ravel's G major in Brussels.
Kurt Sanderling
Charles Dutoit
Armin Jordan
Chamber music partners
Olga Martinova
Born in Leningrad, former concertmaster of the Netherlands Philharmonic. They played Beethoven's violin sonatas together.
Isaac Stern
From Meadow Brook in 1966 onwards.
Itzhak Perlman
David Oistrakh
Pinchas Zukerman
A fellow young musician at Meadow Brook.
Jaime Laredo
Recorded the Brahms violin sonatas together.
Mstislav Rostropovich
Leonard Rose
Recorded the Brahms cello sonatas together.
Paul Tortelier
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Anne Queffélec
Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos.
Claude Bolling
The Sonata for Two Pianists, recorded with the composer.
Bruno Pasquier
Brahms and Schumann on record.
Maurice Bourgue
A Schumann recital on record, and concerts in Béziers.
Michel Béroff
Brahms's Schumann Variations for four hands.
Natalia Gutman
A trio in Béziers, 2013.
Henri Demarquette
Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations in Sofia, 2016.
Boris Berezovsky
Schubert's Fantasy for four hands, Beauvais 2012.
Philippe Cassard
Soloist under his baton in Cazouls, 2025; author of the France Musique tribute.
Quatuor Bernède
Schumann's Piano Quintet on record.
Guarneri Quartet
Vermeer Quartet
Christian Ferras
Alexander Schneider
Casals Festival, Puerto Rico, and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, with Istomin.
Students
Pedro Carboné
The Spanish pianist rebuilt his technique with him.
His orchestras
Northern Sinfonia
Thirty-five years together, from 1975.
Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino
Sofia Philharmonic
Festival de Menton
Sinfonia Varsovia
Recorded the Mozart concertos together in Warsaw.