Piano concerto N°1 – Ludwig Van Beethoven – Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France – Philippe Jordan
Secret Garden – Chopin – La Dolce Volta – 2023
Revolutions – Debussy, Murail – La Dolce Volta – 2022
January 16th, 2022 – FRANCE Cannes Festivals Palace – POSTPONED
With Orchestre Nice-Cannes-Côte d’Azur – Benjamin Levy, conductor
Saint-Saëns Concerto n.5
https://www.orchestre-cannes.com/saint-saens-par-francois-frederic-guy
January 23rd, 2022 – FRANCE Vienne Theater
With Tedi Papavrami, violin
Brahms, Debussy, Beethoven
https://www.theatre-francois-ponsard.fr/saison/spectacle/tedi-papavrami-et-francois-frederic-guy
January 30th, 2022 – HOLLAND Amsterdam Muziekgebouw CANCELLED
February 12th, 2022 – FRANCE Paris Radio France 5:30
Debussy, Murail Récital
https://www.maisondelaradioetdelamusique.fr/festival-presences-2022-tristan-murail
February 13th, 2022 – FRANCE Paris Radio France 6:30
With Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra – Brad Lubman, conductor
Murail L’Oeil du Cyclone (Piano concerto, world premiere)
https://www.maisondelaradioetdelamusique.fr/festival-presences-2022-tristan-murail
March 6th, 2022 – FRANCE Paris Radio France 4:00
With Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra’soloists
Schubert La Truite
https://www.maisondelaradio.fr/philhar-intime
March 19th, 2022 – FRANCE Evian La Grange-au-Lac
With Orchestra di Padova del Veneto – Marco Angius, conductor
Beethoven Piano Concerto n.4
https://mal-thonon.org/orchestra-di-padova/
March 26th, 2022 – FRANCE Bouriane Festival
Chopin, Beethoven Recital
https://www.musique-en-bouriane.org
April 19th 2022 – HONG-KONG POSTPONED
Liszt, Debussy, Beethoven Recital
April 22nd-23rd, 2022 – HONG-KONG POSTPONED
Hong-Kong Philharmonic Orchestra – Gabriel Venzago, conductor
https://www.hkphil.org
April 29th-30th, 2022 – HONG-KONG POSTPONED
Hong-Kong Philharmonic Orchestra – Francois-Frederic Guy, piano and conductor
Beethoven Concertos n. 1, 2, 3, 4
https://www.hkphil.org
May 1st, 2022 – HONG-KONG
Hong-Kong Philharmonic Orchestra – Francois-Frederic Guy, piano and conductor
Beethoven Concerto n.5 – Quintet for Piano and Winds
https://www.hkphil.org
May 13th, 2022 – UK London Barbican Centre
BBC Symphony Orchestra – Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor
Murail L’Oeil du Cyclone (Piano Concerto, English Premiere)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/r88q2m/by/date/2022
May 15th, 2022 – UK London Razumovsky Academy Fou Ts’ong Remembered
Debussy, Chopin Recital
https://razumovsky.co.uk
May 29th, 2022 – FRANCE Montigny-sur-Loing
With Orchestre de Chambre de Paris – Francois-Frederic Guy, piano and conductor
Mozart, Aurélien Dumont, Beethoven
https://www.concertsdepoche.com
June 8th, 2022 – FRANCE Paris Theatre des Champs Elysées
With Orchestre de Chambre de Paris – Francois-Frederic Guy, piano and conductor
Mozart, Aurélien Dumont, Beethoven
https://www.orchestredechambredeparis.com/concert/filiation-et-exploration-2/
June 9th, 2022 – FRANCE Paris Chatelet Theater 12:30
With Orchestre de Chambre de Paris – Francois-Frederic Guy, piano and conductor
Mozart, Aurélien Dumont Écoumène
https://www.orchestredechambredeparis.com/concert/filiation-et-exploration-2/
June 17th, 2022 – FRANCE Saint Maurice
With Miguel da Silva, viola and Xavier Phillips, cello
Brahms, Beethoven
https://www.concertsdepoche.com
June 19th, 2022 – ALBANIA Tirana
With Tedi Papavrami, violin
Beethoven
June 23rd 2022 – FRANCE Paris – Fièvres Musicales Salepétrière hospital
With Emmanuel Strosser, piano
Mozart, Debussy, Brahms
July 12th 2022 – FRANCE Paris – Festival Chopin à Paris
Recital Chopin, Beethoven
https://www.frederic-chopin.com/festival-chopin-a-paris/37e-festival-chopin-paris
July 26th 2022 – FRANCE Cannes – Palais des Festivals
With Orchestre National de Cannes – Benjamin Levy, conductor
Saint-Saëns Concerto n.5
August 8th 2022 – FRANCE Soirées romantiques du Rayol
August 9th 2022 – FRANCE Nice Festival
August 10th 2022 – FRANCE Festival international La Roque d’Anthéron
Nicholas Angelich’s Remembered
Recital Liszt, Chopin, Beethoven
August 12th 2022 – FRANCE Musique en Écrins
September 6th, 2022 – TURKEY Istanbul Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall
With Tedi Papavrami, violin and Nil Kocamangil, cello
Brahms, Beethoven
September 25th, 2022 – FRANCE Narbonne Classic Festival
October 3rd, 2022 – U.K London Wigmore Hall
October 8rd, 2022 – SWITZERLAND Musicales de Compesières
With Microcosme Ensemble – FFG, play and conduct
Chopin Concerto n.2 – Mozart Symphony n.40
November 5th 2022 – HONG-KONG Yuen Long Theatre
With Hong-Kong Sinfonietta – Chistoph Poppen, conductor
Chopin Concerto n.2
November 6th 2022 – HONG-KONG Yuen Long Theatre
November 9th-10th, 2022 – KOREA Seoul Kuhmo Foundation
Beethoven Sonatas (Concerts 7 and 8)
https://www.kumhoarthall.com
November 17th-18th, 2022 – KOREA Seoul Lotte Concert Hall
With Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra – Marc Albrecht, conductor
Beethoven Concerto n.5
December 10th, 2022 – SWITZERLAND Musicales de Compesières
With Microcosme Ensemble – FFG, Play/Conduct
Mozart
Rondo en ré majeur K382
Concerto n*12 en la majeur K414
BeethovenConcerto n*4 en sol majeur opus 58
December 15th, 2022 – FRANCE Paris CNSMDP
With C.N.S.M. Orchestra – FFG, play/conduct
Mozart Don Giovanni Ouverture
Mozart Concerto n.20
Beethoven Concerto n.4
January 19th, 2023 – FRANCE – Marseille – Eglise Notre Dame du Mont
Tribute to Nicholas Angelich
Recital
Chopin
Beethoven
http://chopin-marseille.com/#programme
January 25th, 2023 – FRANCE – Piano à Lyon – Opéra
January 27th, 2023 – FRANCE – Paris – La Seine Musicale
Recital
Chopin
Beethoven
https://www.laseinemusicale.com/spectacles-concerts/chopin-beethoven-sonates/
February 11th, 2023 – BELGIUM – Brussels – Flagey Piano days
March 4th, 2023 – FRANCE – Metz Arsenal
Recital
Chopin
Beethoven
https://www.citemusicale-metz.fr/agenda/dernieres-sonates-de-chopin-et-beethoven
March 12th, 2023 – U.K – London – Wigmore Hall
Recital
Liszt
Debussy
Murail
https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/francois-frederic-guy-202303121930
March 16th-17th, 2023 – GERMANY – Stuttgart Beethoven Saal
SWR Orchestra – Brad Lubman, conductor
Messiaen Turangalîla Symphonie
https://www.swr.de/swrclassic/symphonieorchester/livestream-swr-symphonieorchester-17-03-2023-100.html
March 19th, 2023 – GERMANY – Freiburg
SWR Orchestra – Brad Lubman, conductor
Messiaen Turangalîla Symphonie
https://veranstaltungen.freiburg.de/events/fr/e-swr-symphonieorchester-23?source=standalone&widgetToken=2UvrbVzILvI.&
March 31st, 2023 – GERMANY – Hamburg – Elbphilharmonie – 8:00 P.M
NDR Hamburg – Stefan Asbury, conductor
Tristan Murail – L’oeil du Cyclone
https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/de/programm/ndr-elbphilharmonie-orchester-stefan-asbury/18173
April 13th, 2023 – CROATIA – Zagreb – Vatroslav Lisinski Hall – 7:30 P.M
HRT Symphony Orchestra – Pascal Rophé, direction
Tristan Murail – L’œil du cyclone
https://www.mbz.hr/en/program-2023/13-04/festival-opening-the-master-series-mbz
April 17th, 2023 – U.K – London – Wigmore Hall – 7:30PM
With Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
Debussy
Stravinsky
Ravel
https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/jean-efflam-bavouzet-francois-frederic-guy-202304171930
May 4th and 5th, 2023 – FRANCE – Bordeaux – Auditorium 8:00 P.M
Orchestre National de Bordeaux – Roberto Gonzàlez-Monjas, conductor
Brahms – Piano Concerto n.2
Debussy – Reflets dans l’eau (piano solo)
Murail – Cailloux dans l’eau (piano solo)
https://www.opera-bordeaux.com/saison-symphonique-brahms-project-28132
May 6th, 2023 – FRANCE – Bordeaux – Auditorium 8:00 P.M
Chamber music with Roberto Gonzàlez-Monjas, violin
Brahms
https://www.opera-bordeaux.com/musique-de-chambre-brahms-project-28172
May 16th, 2023 – FRANCE – Paris – Salle Gaveau 8:00PM
With Franck Ferrand, historian
Beethoven
https://www.sallegaveau.com/spectacles/beethoven-ou-lhymne-a-la-liberte
May 26th-28th, 2023 – CYPRUS – International Pharos chamber music festival
With Daishin Kajimoto, Diemut Poppen, Alexander Chauchian,……
Brahms
Chausson
https://pharosartsfoundation.org/event/the-22nd-international-pharos-chamber-music-festival/
June 3rd, 2023 – SWITZERLAND – Geneva – Eglise de Compesières – Compesières Musicales – 8:00PM
Ensemble Microcosme – François-Frédéric Guy, play/conduct
Florent Héau, clarinette
All Mozart !
https://musicalesdecompesieres.ch/concert-geneve-2022-2023/
June 13rd, 2023 – FRANCE – Piano à Riom – Dumoulin Hall – 8:00PM
Recital
Chopin
Beethoven
https://www.piano-a-riom.com/
June 17th, 2023 – FRANCE – Nohant Festival – Bergerie-Auditorium – 8:30PM
Recital
Chopin
Beethoven
https://festivalnohant.com/event/francois-frederic-guy-piano/
June 27th, 2023 – U.K. – London – Wigmore Hall – 7:30PM
2 pianos
With Emmanuel Strosser
Strauss/Singer
Britten
Brahms
https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/francois-frederic-guy-emmanuel-strosser-202306271930
June 19th to 23th, 2023 – GERMANY – Heimbach – Spannungen Festival
Tribute to Lars Vogt
With Antje Weithaas, Violin – Anna Reszniak, Violin – Yura Lee, Violin – Barbara Buntrock, Viola – Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, cello
Brahms
Chausson
Janacek
Schumann
https://www.spannungen.de/
July 20th, 2023 – FRANCE – La Grave – Olivier Messiaen Festival – 5:00PM
Dufourt
Beethoven
https://www.festivalmessiaen.com/
July 21st, 2023 – FRANCE – La Grave – Olivier Messiaen Festival – 9:00PM
Liszt
Debussy
Murail
https://www.festivalmessiaen.com/
July 22nd, 2023 – FRANCE – Festival de Bauges
With Tedi Papavrami, violin – Xavier Phillips, cello
Schubert
Brahms
Beethoven
https://www.musiqueetnature.fr/
July 24th, 2023 – FRANCE – La Roque d’Anthéron Festival – Parc du Château de Florans – 9:00 P.M
Hong Kong Sinfonietta – Yip Wing-sie, conductor
Beethoven Concerto n. 3
https://www.festival-piano.com/fpr_festival/2023/#calendrier
August, 22nd to September 3rd, 2023 – ITALY- Bolzano – Member of jury for Busoni International piano competition
October 14th, 2023 – SWITZERLAND – Geneva – Compesières Musicales – Eglise de Compesières – 8:00PM
Ensemble Microcosme – François-Frédéric Guy, play/conduct
All Beethoven !
https://musicalesdecompesieres.ch/concert-geneve-2022-2023/
October 22nd, 2023 – FRANCE – Bischwiller Vibrations Festival
Récital
Chopin
Beethoven
https://mac-bischwiller.fr/festival-vibrations/
December 16th, 2023 – SWITZERLAND – Geneva – Compesières Musicales – Eglise de Compesières – 8:00PM
Ensemble Microcosme – François-Frédéric Guy, play/conduct
Bach
Mozart
https://musicalesdecompesieres.ch/concert-geneve-2022-2023/
Bachtrack.com – Wigmore Hall, London – October, 2022
Powerful Chopin and commanding Beethoven from François-Frédéric Guy at Wigmore Hall – by Alexander Hall, 04 octobre 2022
SeenAndHeard-International.com – Wigmore Hall, London – October, 2022
François-Frédéric Guy’s Wigmore Hall recital took a fresh look at well-known piano masterpieces – Mark Berry – 2022
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 & 2021 :
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.
Brahms : Trio, op.114 Sonatas, op.120 with Miguel da Silva et Xavier Phillips – Alpha Records – 2021
En pièces – Music by Marc Monnet – François-Frédéric GUY, piano – Odradek Records – 2021
Beethoven : Complete piano Concertos – Printemps des Arts de Monte Carlo – 2019
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
Press review – Télérama – 2022 – (in French)
Révolutions – Murail, Debussy, Guy – 2022
Press review – Le Monde – 2022 – (in French)
Révolutions – Murail, Debussy, Guy – 2022
Bachtrack.com – with BBC Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth – May, 2022
Spectacular Vaughan Williams from the BBC SO and Ryan Wigglesworth – by Roy Westbrook, May 14th, 2022
Musique Matin – L’Invité du Jour – France Musique – Février 2022 (in French)
Sur son nouveau disque, François-Frédéric Guy met en regard deux compositeurs : Claude Debussy et Tristan Murail, qui à plus d’un siècle de distance magnifient les couleurs et les espaces dans leurs partitions permettant ainsi un saisissant rapprochement entre leurs oeuvres.
Avec Tristan Murail, François-Frédéric GUY – Emission présentée par Jean-Baptiste Urbain, diffusée sur France Musique le 8 février 2022
Festival Présences – Radio France – Paris – Février 2022 (in French)
Par Pierre Gervasoni – Publié dans le Monde du 16 février 2022
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
François-Frédéric GUY – Biography
Cadences – Mars 2020 (in French)
François-Frédéric Guy, pianiste et chef – Par Michel Le Naour
François-Frédéric Guy en tête à tête – Paris – January 2020 (in French)
Interview by Sequenza – January, 2020
December 31st, 2021 – FRANCE – Limoges – Opera
With Limoges Opera Orchestra – Bordeaux and Limoges Choir – François-Frédéric Guy, conductor
Beethoven Symphony n.9
https://www.operalimoges.fr/agitateurlyrique/derniere_symphonie
December 10th-11th, 2020 – FRANCE Paris CNSM – Soissons Auditorium Postponed
With the CNSM Orchestra – François-Frédéric GUY, play and conduct
Beethoven, Mozart, Saint-Saëns
December 7th 2021 – FRANCE – Paris – Philharmonie
With Orchestre National de Lille – Vadim Repin, violin – Alexandre Knaizev, cello – Jean-Claude Casadesus, conductor
Beethoven Triple Concerto
https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/agenda?startDate=2021-12-07&genreGps=2&types=1
November 25th 2021 – LITHUANIA – Vilnius Piano Festival
Beethoven, Liszt Chopin Recital
November 23rd 2021 – FRANCE – Metz – Arsenal
With Tedi Papavrami, violin, Xavier Phillips, cello
Beethoven
https://www.citemusicale-metz.fr/agenda/trios-de-beethoven-23-nov
November 20th-21st 2021 – FRANCE – Bischwiller
Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin – Masterclasses
https://www.mac-bischwiller.fr
November 13rd 2021 – SUISSE – Les Musicales de Compesières
With Microcosme Ensemble – François-Frédéric Guy, play and conduct
Beethoven, Schubert
https://musicalesdecompesieres.ch
October 18st 2021 – FRANCE – Chateauroux – Lisztomanias
Liszt Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
https://www.lisztomanias.fr/programmations/recital-francois-frederic-guy/
December 1st, 2020 – FRANCE – Uzerche – Auditorium – POSTPONED
Beethoven recital
Sonatas Clair de Lune, Pathétique, opus 111
November 26th, 2020 – 6:30 – FRANCE – Boulogne-Billancourt – La Seine Musicale – POSTPONED
Beethoven recital
Sonatas Clair de Lune, Pathétique, opus 111
https://www.laseinemusicale.com/spectacles-concerts/francois-frederic-guy_e864