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| Katia & Marielle Labèque |
| A, D, CH, EE, AUS, NZ, Asia |
| Born | |
| Bayonne, France | |
| Studies | |
| Paris | |
| Highlights | |
| Early collaboration with Messian, Boulez, Berio | Bach Celebration 200 ORF worldwide broadcast from Musikverein Vienna | intermission film Vienna Philharmonic New Years Concert ORF | Waldbuhne Berlin 2005 capacity audience worldwide broadcast with Berlin Philharmonic & Sir Simon Rattle | Labèque Foundation & KML Records founded 2006 | |
| Recordings | |
| Erato, BMG, Sony, Philips, KML Records | |
| Short Biography | |
| These nonconformist pianists boast a repertory from the eclectic to the unexpected. Daughters of Ada Cecchi, a former student of Marguerite Long, Katia and Marielle Labèque spent a childhood filled with music. From the onset, they dedicated themselves to the contemporary scene, including the work of composers such as Boulez, Berio, Ligeti and Messiaen. Their repertoire includes a broad range of seemingly contradictory material, in which they move comfortably from Bach, Brahms, Liszt, Mozart, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Bernstein, Takemitsu, and Lutoslawsky to the young composers of today. They have a stunning career throughout the world and have been guests of the most prestigious orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Symphony, the Philharmonia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, Philadelphia Orchestra, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Dresden Staatskapelle and Vienna Philharmonie. They have played under the direction of conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Sir Colin Davis, Charlie Dutoit, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa Pekka Salonen, Leonard Slatkin, Christoph Eschenbach and Michael Tilson Thomas. They are regular guests at Festivals, including Berlin, Blossom, the Hollywood Bowl, Lucerne, Ludwisburg, Mozartwoche Salzburg, Mostly Mozart New York, The Proms, Ravinia, Rheingau, Ruhr, Schleswig Holstein, Tanglewood, and the Salzburg Easter and Pentecote Festivals. For more information please contact info@labeque.com or visit their website www.labeque.com. Katia and Marielle have appeared with such Baroque groups as The English Baroque Soloists directed by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Il Giardino Armonico directed by Giovanni Antonini , Musica Antiqua Köln directed by Reinhart Goebel , Venice Baroque directed by Andrea Marcon, and the Gabrieli Players directed by Paul McCreesh. For the Bach Centennial, their concert at the Vienna Musikverein with Il Giardino Armonico was televised worldwide by ORF and recorded on DVD. Their first recording for Philips, of Gershwin´s Rhapsody in Blue, received a Gold Disc immediately after its release. Since then Katia and Marielle Labèque have made numerous recordings for Philips, Sony and EMI. The aspiration to build a bridge crossing all aspects of contemporary creation has led Katia and Marielle to form their own label, KML Recordings. Transgressing conventions and boundaries, KML Recordings brings together the unexpected in meaningful and artistic ways, constantly associating sounds and images. Their vision goes beyond classical music to look at new territories where rock, electronic, contemporary, improvisation and video have their say. The first releases in 2007 comprise an all-Ravel programme , including a new version of Bolero (from the composer himself) with added Basque percussion, a CD of Stravinsky and Debussy with a DVD directed by Tal Rosner, and a recording of Mozart and Schubert. In 2005 Katia and Marielle Labèque launched the KML Foundation – www.fondazionekml.com - aimed at furthering research and developing awareness of the duo piano repertory through meetings between artists of all fields, be they musicians, film-makers or writers. One of their projects is a programme for children under the auspices of the Berlin Philharmonic Foundation´s program Zukunft@BPhil, brought into existence by Sir Simon Rattle. In addition to the Zukunft@BPhil association, Katia and Marielle have enjoyed huge success performing with the Berlin Philharmonic at their closing Gala Concert at the Waldbühne, playing to with a record audience of 33,000. This concert was telecast worldwide. 2006/2007 If you
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