Download Marie-Josèphe JUDE - Piano (France)

Marie-Josèphe JUDE - Piano (France)
The daughter of a French father and a Sino-Vietnamese mother, Marie-Josèphe Jude began to study
the piano in Nice with Juliette Audibert and then Anne Queffélec and the harp with Elisabeth
Fontan-Binoche. Fostered by Gyorgy Cziffra, she joined the Conservatoire National Supérieur de
Musique in Paris at 13 years of age, where she studied the piano with Aldo Ciccolini and chamber
music with Jean Hubeau. Prodigiously talented, at 16 she secured first prize at the Ecole Normale
de Paris for piano and for chamber music and a performance degree for the harp. She continued her
studies at the final year of the CNSM with Jean-Claude Pennetier. Marie-Josèphe Jude then left for
four years in London to work with Maria Curcio, a protégé of Arthur Schnabel. Following on from
thus success, Marie-Josèphe Jude was a finalist at the Clara Haskil Competition in 1989, and was
granted the New Talent award at the Victoires de la Musique in 1995.
She proceeded to perform at concert halls and festivals across the world, from Montpelier to Bath,
from the Roque d’Anthéron to Kuhmo, from Bagatelle to Locarno, as a soloist under the baton of J.
Märkl, F. Brüggen, C. Dutoit, E. Krivine, F-X. Roth, J.-Y. Ossonce, J. Axelrod, A. Tamayo and K.
Weise, accompanied by prestigious orchestras including l’Orchestre de Paris, l’Orchestre
Philharmonique de Nice, l’Orchestre National de Lyon, Les Siècles, l’Orchestre Symphonique de
Tours, the Chopin Academia Orchestra in Warsaw, the BBC Scottish Orchestra, the Basel Symphony
Orchestra, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, le Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, le Leipzig
MDR Orchestra …
At 17 years of age, Marie-Josèphe Jude met the composer Maurice Ohana. He adopted her as one of
his favourite performers of his work, and above all awakened her interest in contemporary music.
She premièred Philippe Fénelon’s second piano concerto in 2009, and regularly performs
contemporary works. Chamber music forms an important part of her work: she has performed in a
piano duo with Jean-Francois Hessier since 1997, but also plays alongside Claire Désert and Michel
Béroff. In addition, she accompanies string and wind instuments, with her friends Henri
Demarquette, Philippe Graffin, Jean-Marc Phillips, Pascal Moraguès, Xavier Phillips, and Michel
Portal and enjoys working with vocal artists, including Mireille Delunsch. She regularly performs
with the Debussy and Ludwig quartets …
She also works on numerous ballet productions with her brother Charles Jude, a leading dancer and
Principal of the Bordeaux ballet.
In 1993 she met René Gambini, the founder of the LYRINX record label, a meeting which marked a
turning point: she made exclusive recordings for the label of the entire works for piano of Brahms,
Mendelssohn, Jolivet, Clara Schumann, Dutilleux-Ohana… Her latest recording is of works by
Beethoven. She recorded Berg’s Kammerkonzert with Jean-François HEISSER for the MIRARE label,
and also two Brahms CDs. Other recordings to appear shortly include a live recording of the Chopin
Nocturnes and a recording of Liszt for two pianos with Michel Béroff..
Marie-Josèphe Jude also devotes a lot of her time to teaching, she has given classes at the CNSMD in
LYON since September 2012.