Yvonne Louise Georgette Loriod (born 20 January 1924 in Houilles, France) was a French classical pianist, teacher, and composer whose early talent led her to the Conservatoire de Paris, where she studied under Lazare Lévy, Marcel Ciampi, Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen and earned 7 Premier Prix. Her breakthrough came with the 1st world premieres of Messiaen’s Visions de l'Amen (1943) and Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant‑Jésus (1944). Over the following decades she recorded a discography, including Iberia (1958), Turangalîla Symphony (1968), Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant‑Jésus (1975), Harawi (1988), a 2008 release of Turangalîla Symphony, and Catalogue d'Oiseaux (2012); the 2019 compilation The Complete Véga Recordings gathered her key works. Loriod also taught at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe until 1967 and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. She received 12 Grand Prix du Disque, was awarded the Grand Croix of the National Order of Merit in 2007. She died 17 May 2010.
