Stéphanie Elbaz is a contemporary French concert

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. She has performed at the

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in Salzbourg, the

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in Rotterdam, the salle Alfred Cortot in Paris, the Palazzo Ducale in Tuscany, the Essaouira festival in Morocco, etc.

Biography

Born in

Casablanca Casablanca (, ) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of the Chaouia (Morocco), Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a populatio ...

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, she is the niece of the painter

André Elbaz André Elbaz (born April 26, 1934, El Jadida, Morocco) is a Moroccan painter and filmmaker. Born to a Jewish family,https://www.infocenters.co.il/gfh/notebook_ext.asp?book=120503&lang=eng&site=gfh Elbaz studied art and theatre in Rabat and Par ...

. She first studied the guitar, and at the age of twelve she studied piano at the conservatory of

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, then at the conservatories of

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and

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. She has always had male teachers. She obtained her Postmaster, Master and Degree of piano with the High Distinctions in great European conservatories. She also spent three cycles of professional development in three different . She won two piano gold medals with the congratulations of the jury unanimously in two different CNR. Stéphanie Elbaz has also participated in numerous

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es in Europe. In 2017 in Prague, she performed the ''

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'' by

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, reputed to be one of the most difficult works in the pianistic repertoire. In August 2023, she gave a recital as part of the Classical Music Festival of

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during which, alongside works by

Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for Piano solo, solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown ...

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and

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, she gave the French premiere performance of the three pieces ''Romantic Young Ladies'' by

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Selected recordings

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's '' Rhapsodie espagnole'' S 254, audio recording on the pianist's official YouTube channel. . *

's ''

Fantaisie-Impromptu Frédéric Chopin's ''Fantaisie-Impromptu'' () in C minor, Op. posth. 66, WN 46 is a solo piano composition. It was composed in 1834 and published posthumously in 1855 despite Chopin's instruction that none of his unpublished manuscr ...

'' opus 66, audio recording on the pianist's official YouTube channel. *

's ''

'', "live" video of a concert in Prague. *

Sergueï Rachmaninov Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of ...

's ''Prelude'' opus 23 No. 5, video on the pianist's official YouTube channel. *

's ''Romantic Young Ladies'', three pieces for piano, French premiere, video on the composer's official YouTube channel.

References

External links

Stéphanie Elbaz's YouTube channelStéphanie Elbaz on Wiki-Narbonne.Stéphanie Elbaz on France 3.
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