Racha Arodaky () is a

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born in

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. She studied at the

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in the class of

Dominique Merlet Dominique Marie-Joseph Merlet (born 18 February 1938) is a French contemporary pianist, organist and music educator. Biography Born in Bordeaux, Dominique Merlet was a student of Roger-Ducasse, Louis Hiltbrand, and Nadia Boulanger. He won thr ...

. After receiving her ''premier prix de conservatoire'' at age 16, she went to study at the

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with

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. She has also studied with

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. She pursued a career as a recitalist

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, ''88 notes pour piano solo'', Neva Editions, 2015, pp. 53–54. in venues as diverse as the

Salle Pleyel The Salle Pleyel (, meaning "Pleyel Hall") is a concert hall in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, designed by acoustician Gustave Lyon together with architect Jacques Marcel Auburtin, who died in 1926, and the work was completed in 1927 by ...

and the

Salle Gaveau The Salle Gaveau, named after the French piano maker Gaveau, is a classical concert hall in Paris, located at 45-47 rue La Boétie, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It is particularly intended for chamber music. Construction The plans for th ...

in Paris, Barge Music in New York, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, the concert halls of

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and

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, Manege in Reims,

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Strasbourg, Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes and Cairo Opera. Arodaky has been invited to festivals in France, including the Chopin Festival in Bagatelle, Piano aux Jacobins, Flâneries Musicales de Reims, the Domaine du Rayol, Les Heures Musicales du Haut-Anjou, Pionsat Castle Festival, the Festival Le Touquet Pianissime Sannois Festival, the Chopin Festival in Nohant, the ''Festival Les Musiciennes'' on the island of Ouessant, and the Parc Floral de Vincennes. Outside France, she has been invited to the Valldemossa Chopin Festival in Majorca, Schleswig-Holstein in Germany and Brighton, England. Since 2006, Arodaky has been the artistic director of the ''Musique à la cour'' piano festival at the Château de Solliès-Pont in the Var, France.

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