Frank Braley is managed in the Netherlands by Leontien van der Vliet.
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After hesitating for a long time between scientific and musical studies, Frank Braley decided to leave the University to devote himself entirely to music. At the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris he studied with Pascal Devoyon, Christian Ivaldi and Jacques Rouvier, before unanimously obtaining his First Prizes in Piano and Chamber Music. In 1991 he won the First Grand Prix and the Audience Prize at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition. The public and the press agree that he is a "grand" laureate with exceptional musical and poetic qualities.
He is regularly invited to Japan and the United States, in Canada and throughout Europe, Frank Braley is a partner of major orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, the Philharmonique de Radio-France, the Ensemble orchestral de Paris, the orchestras of Bordeaux, Lille, Montpellier and Toulouse, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Liège Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchester of Cologne, the London Philharmonic, the BBC Wales Orchestra, the Royal National Scottish Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony, the Orchestras of Suisse Romande and Suisse Italienne, the Berlin Radio Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Göteborg Symphony, the Royal Copenhagen Orchestra, the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic... He has performed under the baton of conductors such as J-C Casadesus, Stéphane Deneve, Charles Dutoit, Armin Jordan, Hans Graf, Gunther Herbig, Christopher Hogwood, Eliahu Inbal, Marek Janowski, Kiril Karabits, Emmanuel Krivine, Louis Langrée, Kurt Masur, Ludovic Morlot, Paul Mc Creesh, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, John Nelson, Michel Plasson, Yutaka Sado, Michael Schonwandt, Antonio Pappano, Walter Weller.
Frank Braley has toured all over the world: in China with the Orchestre National de France, in Japan and China with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, in Italy with the Orchestre Français des Jeunes and the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto. He has performed at the Tanglewood Festival (USA) with the Boston Symphony conducted by Hans Graf and participated in the inauguration of the new Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, in New York with the Ensemble Intercontemporain. He replaced Martha Argerich at the Proms in London with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Myung-Whung and performed in Amsterdam and Paris with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Bernard Haitink. Recently he has played in Paris, Pleyel with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra (Bach) and with the Orchestre National d'Ile de France (Mozart), at the Folles Journées in Nantes and in Japan, with the Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot (Mozart), then this season with the Orchestre National de France and the Sao Paulo Symphony conducted by Stéphane Denève (Poulenc), with the Hong-Kong Sinfonietta, the Seoul Philharmonic and Hans Graf, the New Japan Philharmonic, as well as with its Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie on tour.
Always a committed exponent of contemporary composers, with works written for him by John Adams, Christopher Rouse, Krzysztof Penderecki, Bright Sheng, and Melinda Wagner already in his repertoire, most recently he has added HK Gruber's Piano Concerto and Samuel Adams' Impromptus.
In recital, he has played in Paris, London, Vienna, Amsterdam, Brussels, Hanover, Ferrara, and in duo with Renaud Capuçon in Amsterdam, Athens, Birmingham, Bonn, Brussels, Rome, Florence, Trieste, New York, Washington, Paris, Vienna... In chamber music, his partners are Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Maria Joao Pires, Gérard Caussé, Eric Le Sage, Paul Meyer, Emmanuel Pahud.
In addition to his regular activity as a soloist, he is passionate about original projects: he participated in a complete set of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, which was performed at the La Roque d'Anthéron festival as well as in Rome, Bilbao, Lisbon, Tokyo and Brazil. He gives the complete Sonatas for violin and piano with Renaud Capuçon in Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées), Bordeaux, Grenoble, Chambéry, Lyon, as well as in London (Wigmore Hall), Luxembourg, Singapore, Hong-Kong.
His discography includes: for Harmonia Mundi, the Sonata D.959 and the Klavierstücke D.946 Schubert's Diapason d'Or, (Diapason d'Or) - which earned him flattering comparisons with Claudio Arrau, Alfred Brendel, Radu Lupu, Andras Schiff -, Richard Strauss' piano works, Beethoven sonatas, a Gershwin recital and Poulenc's Double Concerto (BMG - Prix Caecilia in Belgium, Diapason d'Or). He participated in the recording of the complete Schumann works by Eric Le Sage. Chez Naïve: the DVD Liszt- Debussy-Gershwin (Choc - Monde de la Musique). For Virgin Classics/Erato, he recorded Ravel's chamber music, Le Carnaval des Animaux by Saint-Saëns ("Choc" by Le Monde de la Musique, "Recording of the month" by Gramophone), Schubert's Trout, Schubert's trios with Renaud and Gautier Capuçon and the Hungarian Dances with Nicholas Angelich and the critically acclaimed Complete Beethoven Sonatas for violin and piano with Renaud Capuçon.
After a first disc of Schubert/Debussy/Britten/Carter, Frank Braley and Gautier Capuçon recorded Beethoven's complete Sonatas for cello and piano with Erato. His latest release on Erato includes Beethoven's trios "Ghost" and "Archduke", with Renaud and Gautier Capuçon (February 2020).
Since September 2011, Frank Braley has been Professor at the Paris Conservatoire.
Highlights 2020-21
2 May 2021:
Naarden International Piano Festival
