They would go on to have a friendship of over forty years, performing together and making recordings. I am honoured to have been his teacher -the teacher of an exceptional student!”. Jean-Bernard’s career was already well launched! I cannot take the glory for this – it is Jean-Bernard who deserves all the credit. Istomin said about the relationship: "It was not a master-student relationship, but an ongoing dialogue between colleagues. They established a transatlantic relationship punctuated by Istomins travels to Europe. Istomin complimented him on the Ravel Concert and suggested they would meet again. In 1963 Jean-Bernard Pommier and Eugene Istomin met each other in Sofia where Pommier played Ravel's Concerto in G minor for the first time. Musical relationship with Eugene Istomin He was awarded First Honourable Mention by a jury presided over by Emil Gilels. In 1962, aged seventeen, he was the youngest finalist at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. International recognition came fast after winning the Berlin Young Musicians International Competition in 1960. Later, he also worked with Eugene Istomin in New York. At the age of 14, he moved to Paris to study piano with Yves Nat and Pierre Sancan and conducting with Eugene Bigot at the Paris Conservatoire.
His father, who was an organist, would bring him to meet and play for Pablo Casals. He had his first lessons with the Russian schooled pianist Mina Koslova in Béziers.
Jean-Bernard Pommier began playing the piano at the age of four and gave his first public concert at the age of seven. 1.2 Musical relationship with Eugene Istomin.
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