François-Frédéric Guy is a French pianist born on January 23, 1969, in Vernon.
Since his debut alongside the Orchestre de Paris under the direction of Wolfgang Sawallisch, through to a live recording of Brahms's Second Piano Concerto with Paavo Berglund and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, François-Frédéric Guy has established a strong personality, without haste or impatience.
As his passion for opera and symphonic music goes hand in hand with a certain taste for risk, he chooses the most complex works from the vast ocean of the piano repertoire, notably Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata, which he has performed more than sixty times in public and recorded twice. He performs in prestigious festivals: Varsovia Summer, Lucerne (under the direction of Bernard Haitink), AlpenKLASSIK in Bad Reichenhall, as well as Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Festival International de La Roque d'Anthéron, Festival International de Colmar, Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, and Beethovenfest in Bonn.
It was with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra that he made his debut at the BBC Proms in London. François-Frédéric Guy performs at major contemporary creation festivals such as Musica in Strasbourg, the Festival d'Automne in Paris, Manca in Nice, Archipel in Geneva, and the Muzikgebouw in Amsterdam. He performs works by Ivan Fedele, Marc Monnet, Gérard Pesson, and Hugues Dufourt, who dedicated his piece Erlkönig to him. In 2009, he premiered Bruno Mantovani's Icare for two pianos (with Varduhi Yeritsyan), whose double concerto he would premiere in 2012. He has recently shared the stage with Marc Coppey, Ilya Gringolts, Kun-Woo Paik, Tedi Papavrami, Lawrence Power, Julian Rachlin, and the Kopelman Quartet.
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