Piano concerto N°1 – Ludwig Van Beethoven – Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France – Philippe Jordan
Beethoven Project
“The Beethoven-Project is born after two major events of my career : the beginning of a long collaboration with Maestro Philippe Jordan in 2006 leading to a complete Beethoven concertos recording with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France for Naïve label. The other one was my first 32 sonatas cycle in 2008 Monte-Carlo « Printemps des Arts » festival. Therefore I decided to explore deeply Beethoven’s music on stage and on studio. The complete sonatas were released in 2013 and I will play my 10th cycle in Tokyo for Beethoven anniversary during 2019/20 season.
I was missing the chamber music with strings that eventually became the 3rd act of the project. Together with my wonderful musicians and friends Tedi Papavrami and Xavier Phillips the sonatas for Violin, cello and piano as well as the piano trios including the triple concerto completed this fantastic cruise towards Beethoven’s music ocean. Complete cello and piano music as well as violin sonatas were released in 2015 and 2017 for Evidence Classic label.
The Beethoven-Project has been growing up throughout the recent seasons in its orchestral aspect. I’ve been conducting the piano concertos from keyboard since several years bringing up a different perspective and trying to rediscover the original spirit of these masterpieces.
How was it possible to conceive a “Beethoven-Project without including his symphonies? What emblematic theme describes Beethoven music better than the beginning of his 5th symphony? Thus conducting symphonies became a commanding necessity to achieve this colossal project.
The power and the diversity of Beethoven’s music allow this project having no time limit and feeding itself permanently. In a word it is a life project.”
Follow the Beethoven Project in 2018, 2019 & 2020 :
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83- Allegro appassionato – Johannes Brahms
François-Frédéric Guy and the contemporary composers
“Schoenberg was asked after his Pierrot Lunaire Premiere in Vienna why he was not composing anymore in his early works romantic style. He answered: « It is exactly what I am doing and I am sorry you haven’t noticed it.»
I have a big commitment with modern music and have been working with composers since the very beginning of my career.
There is no gap for me between modern music and classical repertoire. There is only great music or weak music as it has always been.
What makes the music great ? Its ability to express deepest emotions throughout a constant evolution of the musical language and expressions meanings as for painting, architecture and littérature.
I have included Schoenberg in this list because he is for me the father of modernism in music and the link between the past and the future, although he was born in 1874!!! As well as Messiaen some decades later who was the other great source of inspiration for the after-war generation of composers and eventually entered in the classical repertoire.
I am happy to share here with you these short excerpts of some of my favourite composers I’ve recently recorded live or on cd !!”
François-Frédéric Guy
Contemporary repertoire
Georges Benjamin, Pierre Boulez, Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier, Hugues Dufourt, Aurelien Dumont, Ivan Fedele, Bruno Mantovani, Olivier Messiaen, Marc Monnet, Eric Montalbetti, Tristan Murail, Gérard Pesson, Luigi Nono, Horatiu Radulescu, Arnold Schoenberg
François-Frédéric GUY – Highlights
1969
Born in Vernon (France)
1985/1989
Graduated at Paris Conservatoire with Dominique MERLET and Christian IVALDI.
1994
Artist in residence at Cômo lake foundation, Italy. Meeting Leon FLEISHER, Murray PERAHIA, Karl-Ulrich SCHNABEL, Fou T’song, Charles ROSEN.
En pièces – Music by Marc Monnet – François-Frédéric GUY, piano – Odradek Records – 2021
II Glissades – Monnet: En pièces, Premier livre (extract)
Cd disponible à partir du 26 février 2021
Beethoven : Complete piano Concertos – Printemps des Arts de Monte Carlo – 2019
Sinfonia Varsovia – François-Frédéric Guy, play and conduct. Listen & Buy
Beethoven : Complete Sonatas for piano & violin – Evidence Classics – 2017
Tedi Papavrami, violin – François-Frédéric Guy, piano
Bartók Piano Sonata for 2 pianos and percussions with Cedric Tiberghien
Le Devoir – Quand la vie des artistes se met à tanguer – Octobre 2020 (in French)
François-Frédéric Guy est pianiste. Il y a quelques jours, il aurait dû se produire à Montréal. Il s’est plutôt retrouvé en quarantaine à Hong Kong pour deux concerts qui, finalement, n’ont pas eu lieu. Que nous enseignent ces coups étranges du destin au coeur de vies de musiciens en train de basculer ?
Propos recueillis par Christophe Huss pour Le Devoir, 24 octobre 2020
ResMusica – La Roque d’Anthéron – Août 2020 (in French)
À La Roque d’Anthéron : Beethoven envers et contre tout
Par Michèle Tosi – 13 Août 2020
Culture 31 – La Roque d’Anthéron – Août 2020 (in French)
Intégrale des 32 sonates de Ludwig Van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
Par Hubert Stoecklin – 12 Août 2020
Music Matters – BBC – April, 2020
Tom Service speaks to the French pianist François-Frédéric Guy about life during lockdown, and his recording project with the Sinfonia Varsovia featuring all of Beethoven’s piano concerti.
Released On: 04 Apr 2020
ListenCadences – Mars 2020 (in French)
François-Frédéric Guy, pianiste et chef – Par Michel Le Naour
ResMusica – Printemps des Arts de Monaco – Mars 2020 (in French)
L’ouverture du Printemps des Arts de Monaco rend hommage à Beethoven
Par Jean-Claude Hulot – 20 mars 2020
Japan – Ongakunotomo – Feb, 2020
The complete Beethoven’s piano sonatas
Tokyo Musashino Foundation – Dec, 2019
François-Frédéric GUY – Biography
Télécharger la traduction française de la biographie ici – In Deutsch hier
François-Frédéric Guy is widely regarded an outstanding interpreter of the German Romantics and Beethoven in particular, whose piano sonatas he has recorded in their entirety along with works for cello with Xavier Phillips, for violin with Tedi Papavrami, the 5 concertos with the O.P.R.F. under Philippe Jordan’s direction, and recently released in play/conduct with Sinfornia Varsovia.
Over the course of his career he has performed many different concertos from Brahms to ProkoGiev and Bartok, with some of the world’s greatest conductors including Marc Albrecht, Fabien Gabel, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Harding, Philippe Jordan, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Kent Nagano, Michał Nesterowicz, Kazushi Ono, Josep Pons, Pascal Rophé, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Michael Tilson Thomas, Antoni Witt and Jaap van Zweden. He performed with renowned orchestras such as the Wiener Symphoniker, NDR Hamburg, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Seoul Philharmonic, Japan Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, BBC symphony and San Francisco Symphony among others.
ClassicNews.com – Beethoven 2020 – Entretien avec François-Frédéric GUY, piano – Février 2020 (in French)
FRANÇOIS-FRÉDÉRIC GUY, à la croisée des chemins beethovéniens
Propos recueillis par Jany Campello pour classiquenews.com, février 2020
François-Frédéric Guy en tête à tête – Paris – January 2020 (in French)
Interview by Sequenza – January, 2020
January 18th, 2020 – FRANCE – Paris – Theâtre des Champs-Elysées 7:00
With Orchestre de Chambre de Paris – François-Frédéric Guy Play and conduct Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos
https://www.theatrechampselysees.fr/beethoven-19-20
January 22nd, 2020 – FRANCE – Metz – Arsenal 8:00
With Sinfonia Varsovia – François-Frédéric Guy Play and conduct Penderecki, Chopin, Beethoven
https://www.citemusicale-metz.fr/agenda/bons-baisers-de-varsovie
January 24th to 26th, 2020 – FRANCE – Folle Journée (Saint-Nazaire, Cholet, La Roche-sur-Yon, La Flèche, Laval)
With Sinfonia Varsovia – François-Frédéric Guy Play and conduct Beethoven Piano Concerto Emperor
https://fr.calameo.com/read/0021501786bddfedc3c98?page=1
January 29th to February 1st, 2020 – FRANCE – Folle Journée – Nantes
With Sinfonia Varsovia – François-Frédéric Guy Play and conduct Beethoven Piano Concerto Emperor and Beethoven Recitals
https://fr.calameo.com/read/0021501786bddfedc3c98?page=1
February 15th , 2020 – ITALY – Pordenone – Teatro Giuseppe Verdi 8:30
Beethoven recital ( Opus 2 n.1, Pastorale, Hammerklavier)
https://www.comunalegiuseppeverdi.it/la-stagione/musica/franois-frederic-guy
February 21st, 2020 – FRANCE – Dijon Auditorium 8:00
Beethoven Recital (Opus 2 n.1, Pastorale, Hammerklavier)
https://www.opera-dijon.fr/fr/spectacle/francois-frederic-guy/628
March 4th to 13th, 2020 – FRANCE – Villecroze Academy
March 26th, 2020 – U.K – London King’s Place 7:30 CANCELLED
Beethoven recital opus 2 n.1, Pastorale, Hammerklavier
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/classical/beethoven-piano-sonatas-francois-frederic-guy/
April 4th, 2020 – MONACO – Printemps des Arts de Monte Carlo – Opera Garnier 8:30 CANCELLED
With Sophie Koch, mezzo-soprano – French music
http://www.printempsdesarts.mc/programmation/samedi-4-avril
April 6th, 2020 – ALBANIA – Tirana – April 7th Pristina CANCELLED
With Tedi Papavrami, violin Compete Beethoven Sonatas
April 23rd, 2020 – FRANCE – Paris – Théâtre des Champs Elysées 8:00 CANCELLED
With Orchestre de Chambre de Paris – François-Frederic Guy play and conduct Mozart, Aurélien Dumont
https://www.theatrechampselysees.fr/la-saison/orchestres/orchestre-de-chambre-de-paris/orchestre-de-chambre-de-paris-14
May 2nd, 2020 – JAPAN Tokyo Folle Journée CANCELLED
May 4th to 30th, 2020 – BELGIUM – Brussels CANCELLED
Queen Elisabeth Competition
http://concoursreineelisabeth.be/fr/concours-details-calendrier-epreuves/activites/piano-2020/
June 6th, 2020 – FRANCE – La Grange-au-Lac 8:00 CANCELLED
With Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto – Marco Angius, conductor Beethoven Concerto n.4
https://mal-thonon.org/orchestra-di-padova-e-del-veneto/
June 11th and 18th, 2020 – KOREA – Seoul Kuhmo Art hall Foundation CANCELLED
Complete Beethoven Sonatas (the End – Concerts 7 and 8)
http://www.kumhoarthall.com/eng/
June 16th, 2020 – KOREA – Busan Cultural Center CANCELLED
Beethoven recital
http://www.bscc.or.kr/eng/01_intro/?mcode=0501010000
June 19th, 2020 – KOREA – Incheon CANCELLED
With Incheon Philharmonic Orchestra – Christopher Byung Uk Lee, conductor
http://english.incheon.go.kr/index.do
June 21th to 26th, 2020 – GERMANY – Heimbach – Spannungen Festival CANCELLED
Beethoven solo and chamber music
http://www.spannungen.de/en/festival.html
June 26th to 28th, 2020 – FRANCE – Paris Radio France
With 9 young pianists – Complete Beethoven Sonatas
https://www.maisondelaradio.fr/integrale-des-sonates-de-beethoven
November 23rd to December 8th, 2019 – JAPAN – Tokyo Musashino Foundation
Complete Beethoven Sonatas
http://www.musashino-culture.or.jp/eventinfo/english/2019/05/912.html
November 15th, 2019 – FRANCE – Saulce-sur-Rhône
November 14th, 2019 – FRANCE – Soignolles-en-Brie
October 14th, 2019 – FRANCE – Niort
With Orchestre de l’Opéra de Limoges – François-Frédéric Guy Play and conduct
Mozart Piano Concerto n.12, Aurélien Dumont Concerto (world premiere), Beethoven Symphony n.7
http://www.operalimoges.fr/fr/saison
November 5th, 2019 – SPAIN – Las Palmas
With Xavier Phillips, cello
Beethoven Sonatas
https://teatroperezgaldos.es/evento/xavier-philips-cello-francois-frederic-guy-piano/1256
October 11th, 2019 – FRANCE – Limoges opera
With Orchestre de l’Opéra de Limoges – François-Frédéric Guy Play and conduct
Mozart Piano Concerto n.12, Aurélien Dumont Concerto (world premiere), Beethoven Symphony n.7
http://www.operalimoges.fr/fr/saison
September 21st, 2019 – ROMANIA – Bucharest – Enescu Festival
Piano recital Brahms, Enescu, Debussy
https://www.festivalenescu.ro/events/francois-frederic-guy-pian/
September 13th, 2019 – ROMANIA – Bucharest – Enescu Festival
With Orchestra Filarmonicii George Enescu – Peter Rundel, conductor
Tristan Murail Le Désenchantement du Monde
https://www.festivalenescu.ro/events/orchestra-filarmonicii-george-enescu/
August 17th, 2019 – FRANCE – La Roque d’Anthéron Festival
Beethoven Recital (opus 31 n.1 – Les Adieux – Hammerklavier)
http://www.festival-piano.com/fr/programme/concerts.html
July 30th, 2019 – FRANCE – Les Nuits d’Erbalunga
With Xavier Phillips, cellist – Fauré, Schumann, Beethoven, Mendelssohn
http://www.lesnuitsdupianoerbalunga.fr
July 27th, 2019 – FRANCE – Festival La Clé des Portes – le Clos du Tilleul
Solo and chamber music with Ouranous Quintet Beethoven
https://www.lacledesportes-festival.com
July 22nd, 2019 – FRANCE – Bagnières-de-Bigorre – Piano Pic Festival
Piano Recital Liszt, Beethoven, Schubert
https://www.piano-pic.fr
July 17th, 2019 – FRANCE – Perros-Guirec Chamber music festival
With Tedi Papavrami, violonist Liszt, Paganini, Beethoven
July 6th, 2019 – ENGLAND – London – Wigmore Hall
With Xavier Phillips, cello Beethoven Sonatas
https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/xavier-phillips-francois-frederic-guy-201907061930
June 30th, 2019 – FRANCE – Musique en vignes
With Tedi Papavrami, violonist – Mozart, Debussy, Beethoven
https://musique-en-vignes.com
June 14th, 2019 – FRANCE – Festival de Melle
With Tedi Papavrami, violonist – Mozart, Debussy, Beethoven
https://festivaldemelle.fr
June 1st, 2019 – COREA – Tongyeong
Piano Recital Beethoven, Montalbetti, Debussy, Murail
May 23rd and 30th, 2019 – COREA – Seoul – Kumho Art Hall Foundation
Complete Beethoven Sonatas (concerts 5 and 6)
http://www.kumhoarthall.com/eng/
May 18th, 2019 – FRANCE – Muzy – L’Eure poétique et musicale
Piano recital : Liszt, Debussy, Murail, Beethoven Hammerklavier Sonata
https://www.festivaleure.com
May 13rd, 2019 – ALBANIA – Tirana
With Tedi Papavrami, violonist – Beethoven Sonatas
May 9-10th, 2019 – SPAIN – Pamplona
Navarra Orchestra – Antoni Witt, conductor
Liszt Concerto n.2
http://www.orquestadenavarra.es/events/abono-12-jueves/
April 26th, 2019 – FRANCE – Beaune Beethoven Festival
With Emmanuel Strosser, piano 4 hands – Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
http://festival-beethoven-beaune.com
April 24th, 2019 – FRANCE – Paris – Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
Orchestre de chambre de Paris- François-Frederic Guy, playing and conducting
Mozart Piano concerto n.22 – Brahms Concerto n.1
http://www.orchestredechambredeparis.com/concert/carte-blanche-a-francois-frederic-guy-opus-2/
March 28th FRANCE – Albi Scène Nationale
With Tedi Papavrami, violonist and Xavier Phillips, cello
Brahms, Mendelssohn, Beethoven
https://www.sn-albi.fr/spectacle.php?id_spectacle=730
March 24th, 2019 FRANCE – Versailles-Montansier Theater 5:00p.m
With Xavier Phillips, cello – Fauré, Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn
http://www.theatremontansier.com/evenement/rencontre-au-sommet-2/
June 27th, 2020 – GERMANY – Köpenick Festival CANCELLED
Beethoven recital (Moonlight, Pathétique, opus 111)
July 9th-10th, 2020 – RUSSIA – Ekaterinburg Folle Journée CANCELLED
With Sinfonia Varsovia – FFG Play and conduct
July 12th, 2020 – GERMANY – Bad Kissinger Sommer CANCELLED
Concerts and master-classes
July 23rd-24th, 2020 – France Musique et Nature Festival CANCELLED
Recital and chamber music with Tedi Papavrami, violin and Xavier Phillips, cello
July 26th, 2020 – France La Rochelle Classic au Port Festival CANCELLED
chamber music with Xavier Phillips, cello
August 4th-5th, 2020 – BELGIUM – Stavelot Festival CANCELLED
chamber music with Tedi Papavrami, violin and Xavier Phillips, cello
August 7th-8th, 2020 – FRANCE – La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival
August 11th to 14th, 2020 – FRANCE – Les Musicales de Blanchardeau Festival CANCELLED
Recital and chamber music with Tedi Papavrami, violin and Xavier Phillips, cello
August 23rd, 2020 – FRANCE – Les Musicales de Sarlat
Beethoven Recital Sonatas opus 109, 110, 111
August 30th, 2020 – FRANCE – Paris Les Solistes à Bagatelle CANCELLED
September 4th, 2020 – FRANCE – Thomery Rosa Bonheur Festival
Recital (Mongéroult, Saariaho, Beethoven)
September 3rd, 2020 – SWEDEN – Umea CANCELLED
September 10th-11th, 2020 – DENMARK Sonderborg – GERMANY Flensburg
Beethoven Concerto n.1 South Danemark Philharmonic Orchestra – Johannes Wildner, conductor
September 16th-17th, 2020 – FRANCE Piano à Lyon
September 24th-27th, 2020 – POLONIA Varsovia La Folle Journée CANCELLED
With Sinfonia Varsovia – FFG Play and conduct
October 13th-A15th, 2020 – CANADA Montreal CANCELLED
Beethoven Concertos n.1 and 4 With Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal – Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
October 16th-17th, 2020 – HONG-KONG – Playing and Conducting – POSTPONED
November 15th, 2020 – FRANCE Bischwiller POSTPONED
Beethoven/Chopin recital
November 20th, 2020 – FRANCE Ezy-sur-Eure POSTPONED
Beethoven/Chopin recital
November 26th, 2020 – 6:30 FRANCE Boulogne La Seine Musicale POSTPONED
December 1st, 2020 – 8:30 FRANCE Uzerche Auditorium POSTPONED
Beethoven recital Sonatas Clair de Lune, Pathétique, opus 111
December 10th-11th, 2020 – FRANCE Paris CNSM – Soissons Auditorium
CNSM Orchestra – Beethoven, Mozart, Saint-Saëns – FFG Play and conduct
March 15th-16th, 2019 – MONACO – Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo
Sinfonia Varsovia – François-Frédéric Guy playing and conducting
Complete Beethoven Concertos
http://www.printempsdesarts.mc/fr/edition-printemps-des-arts/programme-14
February 27th-28th, 2019 SWITZERLAND – Geneva – Victoria Hall
OSR – Gustavo Gimeno, conductor – Bartok Concerto n. 2
https://www.osr.ch/fr/programme-et-billets/saison/2018-2019/2143
February 11th 2019 ENGLAND – London – Wigmore Hall 1:00pm
Piano recital Brahms, Debussy, Murail
https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/francois-frederic-guy-201902111300
February 3rd, 2019 FRANCE – Le Vésinet Theater 4:30 p.m
Piano recital Brahms, Debussy, Beethoven
http://www.vesinet.org/musique-classique/francois-frederic-guy-recital-de-piano-dimanche-3-fevrier-a-16h30-musique-classique/
January 26th, 2019 LUXEMBOURG – Ettelbruck Debussy Festival
Piano recital Debussy, Murail, Beethoven
http://www.cape.lu/fr/4/eid,5767/programme/FESTIVAL+DE+PIANO+DEBUSSY+%2B.html
January 16th, 2019 FRANCE – Metz Arsenal
With Tedi Papavrami, violonist Mozart, Debussy, Beethoven
https://www.citemusicale-metz.fr/agenda/a-kreutzer
November 27th, 2018 – FRANCE – Angers – Mardis Musicaux
Recital Brahms, Liszt, Beethoven
http://lesmardismusicaux.fr
November 16th to 23rd, 2018 – FRANCE Tour with Orchestre National des Pays de Loire
FFG, playing and conducting – Mozart Rondo KV. 380 and Concert n.23/Beethoven Concerto n.4
Angers, Nantes, La Ferté Bernard
http://www.onpl.fr/saison-20182019/
November 3rd, 2018 – ALBANIA – Tirana – Kathedral 7:00 pm
With Tedi Papavrami, violin Beethoven Sonatas 1, 4, 6, 5
October 31st, 2018 – SPAIN – Madrid – Juan March Foundation
Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert recital
https://www.march.es
October 21st, 2018 – FRANCE – Castres – Theater 5:00 pm
Ensemble Orchestral du Tarn – Pierre Caner, conducting Beethoven Concerto n.4
http://www.ville-castres.fr/fr/agenda/francois-frederic-guy-lensemble-orchestral-du-tarn
October 7th, 2018 – UNITED KINGDOM – London – Wigmore Hall 7:30 pm
Recital Beethoven, Boulez, Brahms
https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/francois-frederic-guy-201810071930
October 4th, 2018 – FRANCE – Paris – Théâtre des Champs Elysées 8:00 pm
Orchestre de Chambre de Paris – FFG, playing and conducting
Mozart Concerto n.23/ Brahms Concerto n.2
http://www.orchestredechambredeparis.com/concert/carte-blanche-a-francois-frederic-guy/
September 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 2018 – THE NETHERLANDS – Breda, Heerlen, Eindhoven
Zuidnederland Philharmonic – Dmitry Liss, conductor
Beethoven Concerto n.5 Emperor