François-Frédéric Guy

In 2017, he made his Vienna debut with the Vienna Symphony, conducted by Philippe Jordan (Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto nº 3).

He again gave the complete Beethoven' s 32 Sonatas at the Festival Berlioz [fr] of La Côte-Saint-André in 2013, Rio de Janeiro in 2015, Tokyo in 2019 and Seoul from 2017 to 2020. Guy began a "Brahms project" in 2016.

From 2012, he has been leading Beethoven's and Mozart's concertos from the keyboard with the Orchestre national de Lille, the Orchestre régional Avignon-Provence, the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Limoges, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, the Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire and has started a regular collaboration with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris since 2015.

In November 2011, he made his Moscow debut at the Spivakov Hall. He has performed in recital in London at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and at the Wigmore Hall, as well as the Royal Northern College of Music of Manchester. Since 2008, Guy has dedicated himself to a "Beethoven Project", both on stage and on record. He has given several integrals of the 32 sonatas and has just released them on disc for the Zig-Zag Territoires label. To enrich this project, he gave the complete chamber music for piano and strings, alongside Tedi Papavrami and Xavier Phillips (Metz, Monaco, Washington, Geneva...), which he recorded for Evidence Classics [fr].

In 2006, François-Frédéric Guy made his debut at The Proms in London with the Philharmonia under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen. Passionate about contemporary repertoire, he performs in the most important festivals of contemporary creation such as Musica in Strasbourg, the Festival d'Automne à Paris [fr], the Manca in Nice, the Archipel in Geneva or the Muzikgebouw in Amsterdam, where he performs works by Aurélien Dumon, Ivan Fedele, Christian Lauba, Jacques Lenot, Éric Montalbetti, Gérard Pesson, and Hugues Dufourt who dedicated his Erlkönig to him. In 2012, he premiered Bruno Mantovani's double concerto, as well as the cycle for piano, En pièces by Marc Monnet (Festival Musica of Strasbourg), of which he is the dedicatee.

Born in Vernon, Eure, Guy entered the Conservatoire de Paris at age 11 and worked with Dominique Merlet and Christian Ivaldi. Graduated in 1980, in 1989, he won the first special jury prize at the Munich Competition and in 1992, first prize and the interpretation prize at the Pretoria Unisa Competition. In 1994, he was invited to the Lake Como Foundation and met there Karl Ulrich Schnabel (Artur Schnabel's son), Leon Fleisher, Murray Perahia, Charles Rosen, Fou Ts'ong and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

François-Frédéric Guy (born 23 January 1969) is a French classical pianist.