Live at the Gallery – Marie François – pianist –
Sat 4 May 2024 20:00 - 21:00
Wouter De Bruycker Fine Arts & Gallery – The Annex, Lange Koepoortstraat 64, 2000 Antwerp
Description
P R O G R A M M A
Het programma zal romantische muziek zijn van Chopin, Liszt en Wagner.
Marie François
“Belgian pianist, Marie François, performed in Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Greece, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Luxemburg, Italy, Ukraine, Romania, the UK and USA. Among those performances a concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Romanian Athenaeum, The Queen Elisabeth Hall in Antwerp… during the B-Classic Festival in Belgium, the Piano Festival in Miami, the Schiermonnikoog Festival in The Netherlands and Aurora Music Festival in Sweden.
Her debut cd, Eclectic/Being me, got released in April 2019 with the Dutch label, Challenge Records International. Two weeks later the cd got chosen among the 10 best classical music albums released that month on Apple Music worldwide. Together with artists such as Boris Giltburg and Renaud Capuçon. She released a new EP in 2021, Memories of Tomorrow. She also started her own podcast: Musing with Marie and is regularly asked to talk about classical music on the television and the radio.
François started to play the piano at the age of four. She finished her Bachelor degree with Joop Celis at the Conservatory of Maastricht, her masters degree in Belgium with Alan Weiss and her postgraduate with Polina Leschenko. She perfected her playing at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Italy with Elisso Virsaladze.
François took part in masterclasses from Elisabeth Leonskaja, Jan Wijn, Pavel Gililov, Alexander Melnikov, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Anton Nell, Alexander Moutouzkine, Peter Donohoe… She took part in the Academia Chigiana in Siena for four years where she had lessons with Lilya Zilberstein. She still plays for her regularly.”
-Marie François
Tickets (**20 EUR/person) can be purchased by cash at the venue or online.
Address:
Wouter De Bruycker Fine Arts & Gallery – ‘The Annex’ , Lange Koepoortstraat 64, 2000 Antwerp
More information:
https://www.wdb-finearts.be/marie-francois-pianist
**With this ticket your are supporting the musicians.
Location
Wouter De Bruycker Fine Arts & Gallery – The Annex, Lange Koepoortstraat 64, 2000 Antwerp