François-Frédéric Guy’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro French pianist
Is Musician 
Pianist 
From France 
Type Music 
Gender male
Birth 23 January 1969, Vernon, arrondissement of Évreux, Eure, Normandy
Age: 51 years
Star sign Aquarius

François-Frédéric Guy est un pianiste concertiste né le 23 janvier 1969 à Vernon (France).

Biographie

Il est le fils d’un professeur de collège, lui-même excellent pianiste amateur. Depuis ses débuts avec l’Orchestre de Paris dirigé par Wolfgang Sawallisch suivi d’un enregistrement en public du 2e concerto de Brahms avec Paavo Berglund et l’orchestre philharmonique de Londres, François-Frédéric Guy s’est imposé comme l’un des pianistes les plus fascinants de sa génération. Il a travaillé aux côtés de chefs de renommée internationale tels que Daniel Harding, Philippe Jordan, Esa-Pekka Salonen ou encore Michael Tilson Thomas. Il est régulièrement l’invité du Philharmonia Orchestra, mais aussi de l’orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France. Il a participé aux festivals de Lucerne (avec Bernard Haitink et le LPO), Chopin à Varsovie (avec le Sinfonia Varsovia), La Roque-d’Anthéron en récital et avec orchestre, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, festival international de Colmar, AlpenKLASSIK de Bad-Reichenhall, Festspielhaus de Baden-Baden, ou Beethovenfest de Bonn.

En 2006, François-Frédéric Guy fait ses débuts aux Prom’s de Londres avec le Philharmonia sous la direction d’Esa-Pekka Salonen. Passionné par le répertoire contemporain, il se produit dans les plus importants festivals de création contemporaine comme Musica à Strasbourg, le festival d’Automne à Paris, Manca à Nice, Archipel à Genève ou le Muzikgebouw d’Amsterdam, où il interprète Ivan Fedele, Jacques Lenot, Gérard Pesson, ou Hugues Dufourt qui lui a dédié Erlkönig.

En novembre 2011, il a fait ses débuts à Moscou à la Spivakov Hall. Il s’est produit en récital à Londres au Queen Elizabeth Hall et au Wigmore Hall de Londres, au Royal Northern College of Music de Manchester, à l’opéra Garnier de Monte-Carlo. Depuis 2008 François-Frédéric Guy se consacre à un “Beethoven Project” sur scène comme au disque. Son intégrale des concertos avec le Philharmonique de Radio France dirigé par Philippe Jordan a été unanimement saluée par la critique internationale. Il a donné plusieurs intégrales des 32 sonates et vient de les publier au disque pour le label Outhere/ Zig-Zag Territoires. Pour enrichir ce projet, il donne l’intégrale de la musique de chambre pour piano et cordes aux côtés de Tedi Papavrami et Xavier Phillips. (Metz, Monaco, Washington, Genève, …).

En 2012, il crée le double concerto de Bruno Mantovani ainsi que le cycle pour piano En pièces de Marc Monnet (Festival Musica de Strasbourg) dont il est le dédicataire. On a pu l’entendre récemment avec l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France et Leon Fleisher, l’Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, des Pays de Savoie, le Philharmonia, le Brabant Orkest, le Sinfonia Varsovia, l’Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, l’Orchestre National de Lille, et l’Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège qu’il a dirigés également du piano.

À partir de l’automne 2013, il se produit avec l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Varsovie et Pablo Gonzalez, le BBC Symphony Orchestra et Fabien Gabel, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo et Michael Jurowski, à la Tonhalle de Zürich avec Philippe Jordan, au Concertgebouw d’Amsterdam, ou bien en récital à Paris au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, au Grand Théâtre d’Aix-en-Provence ou à Londres. Il donne à nouveau l’intégrale des 32 Sonates de Beethoven au festival Berlioz de La Côte-Saint-André et à Rio de Janeiro. François-Frédéric est Artiste en Résidence à l’Arsenal de Metz depuis décembre 2009.

Discographie

Concerto

  • Brahms : Concerto no 2 avec le London Philharmonic Orchestra – Paavo Berglund, direction (Naïve, live, 2004)
  • Beethoven : Intégrale des concertos pour piano et orchestre – Orchestre philharmonique de Radio-France, dirigé par Philippe Jordan (coffret 3 CD, Naïve, octobre 2010)

Piano solo

  • Brahms : Sonates pour piano no 2 et no 3 (Meridian)
  • Beethoven : Sonates opus 106 et opus 109 (Harmonia Mundi, 1998)
  • Prokofiev : Sonates no 6 et 8 (Naïve)
  • Beethoven : Sonates Pathétique, Sonate opus 106 Hammerklavier, Sonate opus 49 no 1 (Naïve, 2006)
  • Marc Monnet : Imaginary Travel (Zig-Zag Territoires, 2010)
  • Liszt : Sonate en si mineur – Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (2 CD, Zig-Zag Territoires, mars 2011)
  • Beethoven : Intégrale des Sonates (Volume I, 3 CD, Zig-Zag Territoires, octobre 2011)
  • Beethoven : Intégrale des Sonates (Volume II, 3 CD, Zig-Zag Territoires, avril 2012)
  • Beethoven : Intégrale des Sonates (Volume III, 3 CD, Zig-Zag Territoires, janvier 2013)
  • Beethoven : Intégrale des Sonates (Coffret, 9 CD, Zig-Zag Territoires, octobre 2013)

Musique de chambre

  • Brahms : Sonates pour clarinette et piano avec Romain Guyot (Harmonia Mundi, 1996)
  • Brahms : Sonates pour violoncelle et piano avec Anne Gastinel (Auvidis)
  • Beethoven : Sonates no 2, 4 et 5 pour violoncelle et piano avec Anne Gastinel (Naïve)
  • Beethoven : Sonates no 1, 3 et Variations pour violoncelle et piano avec Anne Gastinel (Naïve)

DVD

  • Liszt : Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude – Pensées des Morts – Sonate en si mineur (Mirare, Live, 2003)

Notes et références

Liens externes

  • Site officiel
  • Notices d’autorité : Fichier d’autorité international virtuel • International Standard Name Identifier • Bibliothèque nationale de France (données) • Système universitaire de documentation
  • Portail de la musique classique
  • Portail de la France
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