Véronique Bonnecaze is a 21st-century French classical pianist. She studied at the Bordeaux Conservatoire, then at the

Paris Conservatoire The Conservatoire de Paris (), or the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (; CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue Jean Ja ...

(CNSM) with Ventsislav Yankov. She also worked with

Germaine Mounier Germaine Mounier (7 February 1920 – 27 June 2006) was a 20th-century French classical pianist and music educator. Biography Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Mounier won First prize at the Conservatoire de Paris. She worked the piano with Yves Nat an ...

, Vladimir Nielsen and with

Oxana Yablonskaya Oxana Yablonskaya (; born December 6, 1938) is a Soviet, American, and Israeli pianist who has had an active international performance career since the early 1960s. She began her career in the USSR and, although winning several important compet ...

at the

Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a Private university, private performing arts music school, conservatory in New York City. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became ...

in New York . She has won prizes and made the finals of many international piano competitions such as Geneva, Mavi Marcoz, Chopin Palma de Majorque, Pescara and Jaen. She has played in recital and with orchestra in France (

Gaveau Gaveau of Paris was a French piano manufacturer. The company was established by Joseph Gabriel Gaveau in 1847 in Paris and was one of the three largest piano makers in France (after Érard and Pleyel). Its factory was located at Fontenay-sous-Boi ...

and Cortot concert halls, Athénée Theater...), in Austria (Salzbourg Mozarteum), in Germany, in Switzerland (Geneva's Victoria Hall), in the United States (New York's Weill Hall), and also in Belgium, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Sweden, Greece, Japan, Lebanon... Her recording of Chopin's Etudes was praised by

Harold Schonberg Harold Charles Schonberg (29 November 1915 – 26 July 2003) was an American music critic and author. He is best known for his contributions in ''The New York Times'', where he was chief music critic from 1960 to 1980. In 1971, he became the fi ...

, then music critic at the

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. This "talented pianist" has also recorded a Chopin CD (including the Third Sonata) and her double album Schumann-Liszt obtained the “Maestro” award of the "Pianiste" Magazine. She is a tenured piano professor at the École Normale Cortot in Paris where she is also artistic director of the noon concerts and gives masterclasses among others in Japan and at the Cagliari Music Academy. She has founded the Arcachon International Piano Competition, the « Harmonies du Soir » series at the

Plaza Athénée The Hotel Plaza Athénée is a Brunei-owned historic luxury hotel in Paris, France. It is located at 25 Avenue Montaigne in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, near the Champs-Élysées and the Palais de Tokyo. The hotel is part of the Dorchester ...

hotel in Paris, the concerts series “Musical Emotions” at the " Cercle France-Amériques" in Paris, as well as a yearly selection event in Tokyo in order to award scholarships to study at the École Normale Cortot. She is also Vice President of the Francis Poulenc International Piano Competition and President of the

Biscarrosse Biscarrosse (; ) is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is located southwest of Bordeaux, and inland from the seaside resort of Biscarrosse-Plage on the Atlantic coast. Near Biscarrosse is the ...

Musica Club.

References

External links

Official Website
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