François Weigel

François Weigel (born 1964, Trier, Germany) is a French pianist, conductor and composer.

François Weigel
Born1964 (1964) (age 56)
Trier, Germany
EducationHochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSM)
Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris – Alfred Cortot (ENM)
OccupationPianist, composer, conductor
Websitefrancoisweigel.com

Biography

Weigel began piano studies at age four. At age 12, he played organ and conducted a choir which performed his own works. In 1979, he entered the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, where his teachers included Günther Ludwig, and studied composition there. He subsequently studied piano, harmony, counterpoint, analysis, and chamber music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where his teachers included Yvonne Loriod, Pierre Reach (piano), Jean-Sébastien Béreau (orchestra conducting), Bruno Pasquier, Jean-Claude Bernède, Maurice Crut (chamber music), Annie Chaland, Alain Bernaud, Roger Boutry (harmony), Jean-Paul Holstein (counterpoint), Françoise Rieunier (analysis), and Alain Weber (composition). He had afterwards advanced studies in conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where his teachers included Alexander Jenner, and at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. He has also studied with Bertrand Molia, Éliane Richepin, and Alexis Weissenberg.[1]

Weigel has had long-standing artistic collaborations with the Flâneries musicales de Reims, and with the Paris Bastille Opera as chorus master. He performed with Ruggero Raimondi for the program Le Grand Tour, which led to a series of recitals with Raimondi.[2]

In other media, Weigel began a collaboration in 2010 with the journalist and writer Alain Duault for concerts in the French operas presenting the movies On the steps of the great composers, and Musical Promenades in European Music Cities. He appears regularly on radio and television programmes across Europe, such as Le Fou du roi with Stéphane Bern, Carrefour de Lodéon with Frédéric Lodéon on France Inter, Fauteuils d'Orchestre with Anne Sinclair, Le Grand Tour with Patrick de Carolis on France Televisions, and Le monde est à vous with Jacques Martin on Antenne 2.

Awards
  • 1984: First Prize of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSM) in chamber music
  • 1985: First Prize of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSM) in piano
  • 1989: Philip Morris Foundation Prize Winner
  • 1992: Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Prize Winner
  • 1998: Yves Saint Laurent Foundation Prize Winner
  • 2002: Midem World Classical Music Award
  • 2006: French Ordre des Palmes académiques

Recordings

References
  1. "Décès du pianiste virtuose Alexis Weissenberg, interprète de Bach et Rachmaninov". L'Express. 9 January 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  2. Celina Lafuente de Lavotna (31 July 2014). "Concert at Monaco Palace brings hope to children in need". Monaco Daily Reporter. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
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