Lydie Solomon (Lydie Waï Solomon) (born 1982), is a French pianist and actress, born to a Franco-
Romanian
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father and a Korean mother. She speaks fluent French, Korean, English, and Spanish and has a working knowledge of German and Italian.
An early virtuoso
Solomon began playing the piano at the age of two, and at age seven she joined the
École Normale de Musique de Paris
The École Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot" (ENMP) is a leading conservatoire located in Paris, Île-de-France, France. At the time of the school's foundation in 1919 by Auguste Mangeot, Alfred Cortot. The term ''école normale'' (Eng ...
. She studied under the teaching of
Pascal Devoyon Pascal Devoyon (born 6 April 1953) is a French classical pianist.
Biography
Born in Paris, Devoyon began his studies with Blanche Bascourret de Gueraldi then with Lélia Gousseau at the Conservatoire de Paris where he won first prize in 1971. T ...
and
Dominique Merlet. She gave her first recital when she was ten years old in the ''Printemps musical de Silly'',
Belgium
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. At thirteen, she won the
Radio France
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competition, and was given the chance to perform with the
Orchestre National de Radio-France, which was broadcast on
France Musique
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History
The channel was launch ...
.
She then entered the
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where she studied under professor
Jacques Rouvier
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. Solomon won the first prize of the conservatory unanimously in 1996, and in 2000, she won the first prize with the highest honor in piano,
musical composition,
musical analysis,
sight reading
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,
chamber music,
choral and drama.
Music career
She gave a number of concerts in
South Korea
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after being noticed by conductors
Myung-Whun Chung and
Nanse Gum.
François-René Duchâble solicited her for a serial of
two pianos concertos in 2005 and 2006.
Her first album ''Eldorado'', published in 2011, is devoted to
Hispanic
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The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to viceroyalties forme ...
music (
Padre Soler,
Enrique Granados
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,
Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla y Matheu (, 23 November 187614 November 1946) was an Andalusian Spanish composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Francisco Tárrega, and Enrique Granados, he was one of Spain's most important musicians of the first ...
,
Claude Debussy,
Maurice Ravel,
Ernesto Lecuona
Ernesto Lecuona y Casado (; August 7, 1896 – November 29, 1963) was a Cuban composer and pianist, many of whose works have become standards of the Latin, jazz and classical repertoires. His over 600 compositions include songs and zarzuelas as ...
,
José Asunción Flores,
Carlos Chávez
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,
Alberto Ginastera, ,
Isaac Albéniz
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (; 29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his conte ...
,
Astor Piazzolla
Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (, ; March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed '' nuevo tango'', incorporating elements fro ...
) and contains two original compositions.
In 2013, Lydie Solomon introduced a new program dedicated to little-known links between
Frédéric Chopin's music and those of various Cuban composers, named ''De Chopin à Cuba'' (From Chopin to Cuba).
She participated in the Paris summer event « Play Me I'm Yours ».
Lydie Waï
Between 2008 and 2010, Lydia Solomon started an acting career.
She joined the
Cours Florent
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The school is located on three nearby sites in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France: rue Archereau, rue Mathis, and Avenue Jean-Jaurès; f ...
and trained at the
Actors Studio.
Under the stage name of Lydie Waï, she played one of the main female roles in the final feature film "''Vivre !''" of , released in 2009.
She plays Kim, a pianist betrayed by her over-stressed hands.
Renowned for "her talents as an excellent instrumentalist and polyglot actress",
Jean-Pierre Thiollet
Jean-Pierre Thiollet (; born 9 December 1956) is a French writer and journalist.
Primarily living in Paris, he is the author of numerous books and one of the national leaders of the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CEDI), a ...
, ''88 notes for piano solo'', Neva Editions, 2015, p. 62. she also composed
jazz
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y and
Latino
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songs, giving concerts and publishing the album ''Harmonie'' with Thierry Lier in 2009.
Discography
* Live concerts in Korea, CD, 2001, Dichter Liebe Classics.
* ''Harmonie'', CD, 2009, Consultatis.
* ''Eldorado, Soler to Piazzolla'', CD, 2011, Intrada.
Filmography
* 2008: ''Vivre !'' of , ,
* 2012:
* 2013: French TV series "Profilage" (Season 4, Episode 11): Sophia Kaplan
References
External links
Official Site*
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21st-century French women classical pianists
1982 births
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
École Normale de Musique de Paris alumni
Living people
Actors Studio alumni
French people of Romanian descent
French people of Korean descent