Véronique Bracco

Born in Nice, Bracco studied at the Conservatories of Nice and Boulogne-Billancourt (in the class of Marie-Paule Siruguet,[1] from where she graduated with the First Prize for piano and chamber music), as well as with Pascal Devoyon, Jacques Rouvier.

At the age of 14, she moved to Germany, where she joined the class of Peter Eicher, professor at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe and the Musikschule in Mannheim, then a few years later, in Finland, in the class of Russian pianist Nikita Jushanin, Professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

First Prize in National and International Competitions (Steinway & Sons International Piano Competition – Hamburg (Germany), World Piano Competition – Cincinnati (U.S.A), Mozart Special Prize – Stuttgart (Germany), etc.), she worked with great pianists such as Nikita Magaloff, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Vladimir Feltsman, then began her career as a concert pianist, performing in solo concerts abroad, as in France.

Bracco started composing very early, at the age of 10, and was published at the Henry Lemoine publishing house at the age of only 13 (which makes her the youngest French piece then to have been published – her work even receiving the First Special Prize Europe and being chosen several times as imposed piece in the Léopold Bellan and Gil Graven competitions).

Bracco has been a member of the SACEM since 1990. Since then she has written numerous works for piano, violin-piano, violin-bass-piano, arrangements for orchestras, a Concerto for piano and orchestra, composed at the age of 14 for the Bicentenary of the death of Mozart (a Concerto which was noticed by Christian Manen (Prix de Rome for composition and Professor at the Conservatoire de Paris), with whom she will finally play it in its World Premiere at Asnières-sur-Seine under his direction), a Concerto for violin and orchestra.

In 1998, her Romance for violin and piano in D major was also published by Éditions Barcarolle.

Bracco has given numerous piano recitals as a soloist (in France, Germany, Finland, Italy, USA, Netherlands...), but she also performs regularly in concert with violinist Marie Cantagrill (in France and abroad), with whom she has recorded two albums (Marie Cantagrill – Romantique et virtuose and Récital Slave).

Bracco has been teaching piano since 1999, and has also been an accompanist in conservatories, music schools, national and international instrumental competitions, as well as in various musical training courses.

• Official website
• Merci à vous Monsieur Debussy! by Véronique Bracco
• "Massenet – Thaïs Meditation", played by Marie Cantagrill, violin with Véronique Bracco, piano (YouTube)