He took the standard path of the Conservatoire de Paris where he won the violin prize in 1960 and the chamber music prize the following year (the André ASSELIN and Pierre PASQUIER class). He led a triple artistic life, in the field of string quartet, as a member of a full orchestra and as a solo-singer. His early calling for chamber music started with the Bernède Quartet, then the Debussy Quartet (with Patrice FONTAROSA, Renaud FONTAROSA, and Bruno PASQUIER), and finally, the Quatuor Prat.

At the same time, Jacques PRAT joined full orchestras: solo violin for the Opéra de Paris in 1966, Konzertmeister in the Basler Orchester Gesellschaft from 1976 to 1977, and the Philharmonique de Radio France as the super-soloist. He also appears as a soloist in France and abroad, in particular with the Lausanne Swiss French orchestra and French music groups (Nice, Marseille, Ile-de-France). His repertoire is composed of violin classical standards – Bach, Brahms, Beethoven – as well as works of SZYMANOWSKY, Elgar, KORNOLD and Patrice MESTRAL for whom he wrote the “Concerto pour violon” in 1987 at Radio France. This eclectism is what prompts him, at this time, to go beyond traditional concerts and find new entertainment formulas, new concert halls and a changing audience. Jacques PRAT has won the “Georges Enesco” prize and is prize winner for the International Contest in Liège, London and Munich.

For the past few years, he has been regularly conducting the Philharmonique de chambre de Montpellier. Until his death in 2004, Jacques PRAT was violin super-soloist in the National Orchestra of Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon.