March 27 - 30, 2025, Megève
Classical music event Megève - Classiciquicime concert
Piano Night
Friday March 28, 2025 - 8:00 p.m.
Anne Queffélec, Florian Noack, Adam Laloum
Megève Palace
From 65.00€
An exceptional night dedicated to the king of instruments
The Nuit du Piano at the Palais Megève promises an exceptional evening dedicated to the king of instruments. This evening allows you to explore varied and refined repertoires thanks to internationally renowned pianists. The Nuit du Piano at the Diapason Megève Festival reveals all the richness and virtuosity of the piano repertoire, in an atmosphere that is both intimate and grandiose. During this event, piano enthusiasts and music lovers delight in absolutely exceptional performances.
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Adam LALOUM :
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BRAHMS : Sonate pour piano no 3 en fa mineur op. 5
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Anne QUEFFÉLEC :
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DEBUSSY Clair de lune (extrait de la Suite bergamasque)
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CHOPIN Berceuse op.57
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DEBUSSY Reflets dans l'eau (Image no1 )
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MOZART Sonate en si bémol majeur K.333
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Florian NOACK :
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Rimsky-Korsakov / Florian Noack : Scheherazade
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Maurice Ravel : Gaspard de la nuit
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The artists of the Piano Night
Anne Queffélec
Considered one of the great personalities of today's piano, Anne Queffélec enjoys international renown and an exceptional influence on musical life.
Acclaimed in Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada, the United States, etc., the greatest orchestral formations have invited her – London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Tonhalle Zurich, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo NHK Orchestra, Ensemble Kanazawa, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestres National de France and Philharmonique de Radio France, Strasbourg, Lille, Prague Philharmonic, Kremerata Baltica, Sinfonia Varsovia, etc. under the direction of prestigious conductors – Boulez, Gardiner, Jordan, Jarvi, Leppard, Marriner, Zinman, Eschenbach, Conlon, Langrée, Belohlavek, Skrowacewsky, Casadesus, Lombard, Guschlbauer, Zecchi, Foster, Holliger, Janowski, Inoue, Vogt, etc.
Named "Best Performer of the Year" at the Victoires de la Musique 1990, Anne Queffélec has performed several times at the London Proms, the Bath, Swansea, King's Lynn, Cheltenham and Händel-Festspiele Göttingen festivals. She is also a regular at French festivals such as La Chaise-Dieu, Radio France Montpellier, Strasbourg, Besançon, Bordeaux, Dijon, La Grange de Meslay, La Folle Journée de Nantes, La Roque d'Anthéron where she has given, among others, the complete Mozart Sonatas during six concerts broadcast live on France Musique, confirming her passionate affinity with the Mozartian universe. Anne Queffélec participated in the recording of the soundtrack of Amadeus, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner.
On stage as in her recordings, Anne Queffélec cultivates an eclectic repertoire. As evidenced by her rich discography: she has devoted more than forty recordings to Scarlatti, Schubert, Liszt, Chopin, Bach, Debussy, Fauré, Mendelssohn, Satie, the complete works of Ravel and Dutilleux, Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Haydn recorded respectively by Erato, Virgin Classics, Mirare. In 2019, Warner released an anniversary box set of 21 CDs containing all of her recordings for Erato, Virgin Classics, from 1970 to 1996. In November 2022, her disc of Beethoven's last 3 sonatas met with enthusiastic media reception (Choc de Classica). In November 2023, his latest CD devoted to two Mozart concertos, No. 20 K.466 in D minor and the final 27th, K.595, in B flat major, was released, again by Mirare, with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, under the direction of Lio Kuokman.
Florian Noack
After being named “Young Artist of the Year” at the ECHO Klassik for his album devoted to his own transcriptions and paraphrases for piano, Florian Noack was awarded a Diapason d'Or of the Year 2017, the International Classical Music Award and an Octave de la musique for his recording of the music of Serguey Lyapunov – three prestigious distinctions confirming the exceptional talent of this young musician.
In 2018, Florian released a record entitled "Album d'un Voyageur" with La Dolce Volta, which was awarded a Diapason d'Or in March 2018 and an Octave de la musique in June 2019. After a new Diapason d'Or for the formidable Etudes d'exécution Transcendantes op.11 by Lyapounov, he was awarded a CHOC by Classica, a Diapason d'Or, ffff by Télérama for his latest recording of transcriptions "I wanna be like you". Florian Noack is a prizewinner of the Rachmaninov International Competition, the Robert Schumann International Competition and the Cologne International Competition. He is also a winner of the "Grandpiano" Prize, the Belgian Vocation Foundation, the Spes Scholarship, the Banque Populaire Foundation and the Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund.
In 2023, 2024, 2025, Florian is on tour in France with the Orchestre National de Metz in the Grieg concerto as well as in the United States for a recital tour. He is also the guest of the Orchestre National de Belgique in the 1st Medtner concerto at the Bozar in Brussels and at the Auditorium de Lyon. He is then back in the United States for a recital tour and performs at the Bozar in Brussels in a major recital dedicated to Prokofiev, at the Festival de la Roque d'Anthéron, at Flagey, at the Serres d'Auteuil, at the Festival de la Chaise-Dieu…
Florian Noack quickly distinguished himself with his passion for rare works from the romantic and post-romantic repertoire, and his concert programmes often include composers such as Lyapunov, Alkan, Medtner or Dohnanyi. He is also the author of transcriptions, played by musicians such as Boris Berezovsky, Dmitry Bashkirov or Cyprien Katsaris.
Born in 1990 in Brussels, he began studying piano at the age of 4, and at 12, entered the Chapelle Reine Élisabeth in the cycle for Young Exceptional Talents, where he studied with Yuka Izutsu. He then continued his studies at the Musikhochschule in Cologne with the Russian pianist and composer Vassily Lobanov, and at the Musikhochschule in Basel, with Claudio Martinez-Mehner. Florian Noack is currently professor of piano at the Royal Conservatory of Liège.
Adam Laloum
Considered one of the greatest talents of his generation, pianist Adam Laloum received international recognition by winning the 1st Prize of the prestigious
Clara Haskil competition as well as the Victoire de la Musique in the “Instrumentalist of the Year” category in 2017.
Adam Laloum has the opportunity to perform in concerto with prestigious orchestras such as the Mariinsky Orchestra/Valery Gergiev, the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin/Nicholas Collon at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra/Joshua Weilerstein at the Saint-Denis Festival, the National Orchestra of Belgium/Hugh Wolf, the Orchester de Paris/Cornelius Meister, the Orchester du Capitole de Toulouse/Joseph Swensen/Maxim Emelyanychev, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Roger Norrington, the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra/Alain Altinoglu, the Orchester National de France/Andris Poga, the Orchester National de Lyon/Gabor Takacs-Nagy, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège/John Neschling, the Orchester de la Suisse Romande/Jonathan Nott, the Orchestra Strasbourg Philharmonic/Jesus Lopez-Cobos, the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester/James Gaffigan, the Orchester National de Bordeaux/Jaime Martin, etc.
En récital, Adam Laloum se produit notamment au Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Wigmore Hall, Herkulessaal de Munich, Tonhalle Zürich, Auditorium du Louvre, Piano à Lyon, Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, Grand Théâtre d’Avignon, Société Chopin de Bern, Palais des Beaux-arts de Bruxelles, Bilbao, Japon. Il est l’invité du Klavier-Festival-Ruhr, des Festivals de Verbier, Colmar, Lucerne, la Roque d’Anthéron, SWR Schwetzingen, la Chaise-Dieu, Folles Journées de Nantes, Piano aux Jacobins, Bad Kissingen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Schubertiade Hohenems, etc…
Parmi les temps forts de la saison 2024/25 on note son retour avec l’Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse dans le 24ème concerto de Mozart. Adam Laloum sera également en récital du soir au Théâtre des Champs Elysées, ainsi qu’aux Schubertiade à Hohenems. Après plusieurs disques (Brahms, Schumann) parus chez Mirare et couronnés de succès (« Diapason d’or de l’année 2014 », « Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros », « ffff » de Télérama, Fono Forum), Adam Laloum enregistre les deux Concertos pour piano de Brahms avec le Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester de Berlin sous la direction de Kazuki Yamada (Sony Music).
Pour sa première collaboration avec Harmonia Mundi, il fait paraitre en 2020, deux sonates de Schubert encensées par la critique, puis un album consacré à l’op.116 et la 3ème Sonate de Brahms qui est récompensé d’un CHOC de Classica. Son tout dernier parait début 2024 et est à nouveau consacré à Schubert avec les Moments Musicaux et l’avant-dernière Sonate, D959. En mai 2024, parait un album avec le Quatuor Hanson consacré à Schumann (Harmonia Mundi) qui reçoit un 5 Diapasons et un CHOC de Classica. Le suivant paraitra en 2025 et sera à nouveau consacré à Schumann, et ses Kreisleriana, et ses Novellettes.
Musicien de chambre recherché, Adam Laloum fait paraitre avec le Trio les Esprits plusieurs enregistrements, le dernier étant consacré à Schubert et gratifié d’un The Strad « Recommends » (Sony Music). Avec le clarinettiste Raphaël Sévère et le violoncelliste Victor Julien-Laferrière, il fait paraître les deux Sonates et le Trio avec clarinette de Brahms (« Diapason d’or de l’Année 2015 » et ffff de Télérama). Avec l’altiste Lise Berthaud, il enregistre un album consacré à Schumann, Schubert et Brahms qui est également récompensé d’un Diapason d’or, et avec la violoniste Mi-Sa Yang, un album consacré à Poulenc, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Debussy (Mirare).
Adam est le co-fondateur et directeur artistique du festival des Pages Musicales de Lagrasse depuis 2015, un festival consacré au répertoire de musique de chambre. Il commence le piano à l'âge de dix ans et poursuit ses études musicales au Conservatoire de Toulouse avant d'intégrer le Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris en 2002 dans la classe de Michel Béroff. Il obtient son Diplôme de formation supérieure de piano en juin 2006 et poursuit un cycle de perfectionnement au CNSM de Lyon dans la classe de Géry Moutier. Il rejoint ensuite la classe Hambourgeoise d’Evgeni Koroliov, Prix Clara Haskil 1977.