Fanny Azzuro

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Fanny Azzuro (* 1986 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence ) is a French pianist.

Career

Fanny Azzuro comes from a family of Italian descent. One of her grandmothers was a Neapolitan amateur pianist and her brother Pierre is a horn player with the Stuttgart Philharmonic . After studying piano in Montpellier , at the Paris Conservatory and at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, she was accepted into the class of Russian-Italian pianist Boris Petrushansky (* ) at the Accademia Pianistica "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola (Italy) in 2012 1949). She also attended master classes in Europe and North America with Aldo Ciccolini , Jacques Rouvier , Pascal Devoyon , Gregorio Nardi and Elisabeth Leonskaja .

Performances and recordings

Fanny Azzuro entered a. 2009 at the Festival Pablo Casals in Prades and at the Festival Estival d'Annecy in Annecy . In 2010 she was a guest at the New York Piano Festival and the Bowdoin International Music Festival . In 2013 she performed at the 3rd International Piano Festival in Plauen . Her first solo album with works by Russian composers will be released in September 2014.

She is not only dedicated to classical music, but also played jazz with Tigran Hamasyan in 2009 and in 2010 she co-founded the SpiriTango Quartet , a piano-violin-bass-accordion-tango quartet.

Awards

Fanny Azzuro won the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati and won first prize at the Concours de piano in Vulaines-sur-Seine . At the Piano Campus Competition in France she won the special prize for the best contemporary interpretation. In 2010 she was awarded the “Diplôme National Supérieur de Musicien”.

Discography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clarté poétique - Fanny Azzuro en récital on concertclassic.com
  2. ↑ a b c d Fanny Azzuro, piano. Biography on the website of SpiriTango Quartet (French)
  3. ^ New York Piano Festival 2010 (accessed November 24, 2011)
  4. ↑ A musical delight at the “3. International Piano Days " Plauer Zeitung No. 9 2013, PDF file, p. 9
  5. ^ Fanny Azzuro: Russian Impulse , Paraty 2014
  6. ^ Fanny Azzuro, BIOGRAPHY. Radio France Music, August 17, 2014
  7. ^ Au piano, Fanny Azzuro , Le Dauphiné libéré, April 10, 2012
  8. ↑ Fanny Azzuro. Website of the Paraty label
personal data
SURNAME Azzuro, Fanny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Rémy-de-Provence