Anne Le Bozec · French Lied

"From an inspiring soul" - this is how French pianist Anne Le Bozec's piano playing is often described.
She studied piano, chamber music and lied accompaniment with Theodor Paraskivesco and Anne Grappotte at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique Paris and in the lied class at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll. She completed all of these programmes with distinction. She took part in masterclasses with Leonard Hokanson, Ruben Lifschitz, Gundula Janowitz and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. She has won numerous prizes at international chamber music and piano competitions (Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, Vierzon, Rouen, Guérande, Schubert Competition Graz); she has been honoured as a laureate of the "Fondation pour la Vocation" and a scholarship holder of the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation for her work in the field of lieder. At the international song art competitions Hugo Wolf in Stuttgart and Nadia et Lili Boulanger in Paris, she received the prize for her outstanding individual performance as a song pianist.   
Anne Le Bozec has performed as a soloist and as a Lied and chamber music partner with Sabine Devieilhe, Marc Mauillon, Cyrille Dubois, Christian Immler, SunHae Im, JaeEun Lee, Ute Döring, Isabelle Druet, Amel Brahim-Djelloul, Janina Baechle, Konstantin Wolff,Roland Hermann, Philippe Huttenlocher, Didier Henry, Alain Meunier, Louis Rodde, Sandrine Tilly, Olivia Hughes, Gérard Poulet, Miguel da Silva, Michel Portal, the string quartets Akilone, Ardeo, Navarra and Parisii, the Moragues Quintett, the Vokalensemble Rastatt. She has performed at the Rheingau Music Festival, Schwetzingen Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Sommets musicaux Gstaad, Festival Messiaen, Salle Pleyel, Philharmonie de Paris, Opéra Bastille, Palau de la musica Valencia and Barcelona, Philharmonie Hamburg, Cologne, Warsaw and Luxembourg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, KKL Luzern, Wigmore Hall London, Seoul Art Centre, Epta Saal Tokyo, New York Park Armory and many others.
Numerous lieder recordings, with songs by Wolf, Schubert, Mahler, Szymanowski, Delage, Duparc, Chopin, Fauré, French composers and others, have been highly praised by the press. In the field of chamber music, she has recorded French sonatas for violin and piano with Hélène Collerette, as well as the complete Beethoven and Fauré cello sonatas in duo with Alain Meunier. She delivered five song and chamber music programmes for the Hortus label and its series "Musicians and the First World War". A Shakespeare album (NoMad) was released in 2016 together with mezzo-soprano Isabelle Druet to mark the year of Shakespeare's death.
Anne Le Bozec has been a professor of song and vocal accompaniment at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique Paris since 2005. She gives masterclasses all over the world. From 2006 to 2011, she led the newly established German class for French song at the Karlsruhe University of Music. She is the artistic director of the French music festival Fêtes Musicales de l'Aubrac.