Alain Bernheim was born in Paris 23 May 1931. Arrested 1943 by the Gestapo and sent to the concentration camp Drancy. Represented Lycée Janson-de-Sailly at the Concours Général of philosophy when he was fifteen.

 

PIANIST

National Conservatory of Music in Paris, first French music student awarded a Fulbright scholarship, studied in Boston at the New England Conservatory of Music. Shared second prize with Vladimir Ashkenazy at the international piano contest Bucharest 1953.  Recordings Chopin, Schumann, Prokofiev (http://www.deezer.com/search/alain%20bernheim) and some 2000 concerts until 1980.

 

FREEMASON

Made a Mason 1963 (Grand Orient of France), belongs to the Swiss Grand Lodge Alpina and to the Regular Grande Lodge of Belgium (PM Ars Macionica No. 30 ). First Frenchman elected 2010 an active member of Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076 (United Grand Lodge of England) from which he demitted 2014 as he was Senior Warden.

 

33° (Supreme Council of the United States, Southern Jurisdiction), Visiteur Général d'Honneur of the Great Priory of Belgium, member of the  Royal Order of Scotland, Member of Honour of the Supreme Council of France.

 

HISTORIAN

Norman Spencer Award 1986 and 1993 (Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076). Certificate of Literature 1997 (Philalethes Society). Blue Friar 2007. Albert Gallatin Mackey Scholar Award for Lifetime Achievement 2009 (Scottish Rite Research Society). Caroubi Award 2010 (Supreme Council of France). Literary Award of French Freemasonry 2011 (for Le rite en 33 grades De Frederick Dalcho à Charles Riandey). Special Award Golden Acacia, Salon du Livre Maçonnique 2014.