- Voice
- Piano
Born into a family loving the arts, Anne Le Bozec was involved in a broad artistic practice from her early childhood. Music, but also drawing, plastic creation, literature and poetry constantly accompany him.
Her primary interest in a plurality of artistic forms is found in the career that Anne Le Bozec undertakes in concert and as a teacher. A pianist obviously, but a musician above all fond of sharing: the obvious one of chamber music with all instruments; that, intimate, of the poetic text through melody and Lied; that of the playwright through a constant reinvention of the orchestra at the piano, particularly in the oratorio and the opera; and multiple calls from the piano to dance, mime, silent cinema.
Among the vast repertoire that she tackled with numerous singers, there were the Schubert, Wolf, Mahler, Brahms and Schumann evenings with Philippe Huttenlocher, Christoph Sökler, Konstantin Wolff, Christian Immler, Janina Baechle; the Rilke portrait with SunHae Im; the Hölderlin exploration with JaeEun Lee; Franco-Scandinavian pilgrimages with Karen Vourc'h; the Salons of Pauline Viardot and a Ravel-Roussel-Zemlinsky mirror with Sabine Devieilhe; Shakespeare songs and the melodies of Charles Ives with Isabelle Druet; the adventure of Britten's Canticles with Cyrille Dubois; a wide range of Mediterranean music with Assumpta Mateu, Olga Pitarch, Xavier Sabata; the complete vocal works of Olivier Messiaen with Catherine Hunold, Gaëlle Arquez, Laura Holm, Marie-Laure Garnier; the dreaminess of 1001 Nights with Amel Brahim-Djelloul; the great Lieder of Wagner, Strauss and Liszt with Kelly God; the melodies of Chopin and Szymanowski with Urszula Cuvellier or Anna Krawczuk; Germanic melodrama with Roland Hermann; Herodiade by Hindemith after Mallarmé with the actress Marie Lenoir; the epic tale of Belle Maguelone with Thomas Dolié and the actor Didier Sandre; a limitless exploration of the music repertoire of the Great War with Françoise Masset and Marc Mauillon; always with Marc Mauillon, the melodies of Fauré and Debussy; Duparc, Poulenc and Magnar with Didier Henry; the vocal works of composers who have won the Prix de Rome, with Clarisse Dalles.
Instrumental chamber music is not left out: from the complete Beethoven Sonatas with cellist Alain Meunier to French and Germanic sonatas for cello and piano; an exhaustive vision of the repertoire for flute and piano with Sandrine Tilly; Mozart-Schubert evenings with pianist Christian Ivaldi; the two piano challenge with Flore Merlin; sonatas by Beethoven, Roussel and Schmitt with violinist Hélène Collerette; many trips with the Ardeo, Akilone, Navarra string quartets; sonata, trio and quartet literature with many partners.
Many of these programs have been released on disc (BayerRecords, Hortus, NoMad, Carus, AmeSon, Maguelone, Le Palais des Dégustateurs, Harmonia Mundi labels) or broadcast on radio or television.
She led from her piano on stage Pelléas et Mélisande by Debussy, l'Enfant et les Sortilèges by Ravel, Pénélope by Fauré, her own reading of St François d'Assise by Messiaen, a large part of Séverac's lyrical work. She plays the complete works for choir and piano by Brahms, De Profundis by Lili Boulanger, Pilgrimage of the Rose by Schumann, the German Requiem by Brahms, Faust by Kreutzer. Programs with dance have emerged: contemporary creation with the Hugo Wolf Project by Hans-Werner Klohe; flamenco with dancer Sharon Sultan.
The winner of numerous prizes in international competitions (including Boulanger/Paris, Schubert und die Moderne/Graz, Hugo Wolf/Stuttgart) and support of leading cultural foundations (Yamaha Music foundation of Europe, Bleustein-Blanchet, Stiftung Baden-Württemberg ) had started playing piano at the conservatory in Tours, her hometown. Quickly graduating, she joined the CNSMDP at sixteen, studied with Theodor Paraskivesco, David Walter, Anne Grappotte, and obtained first prizes in piano, chamber music and vocal accompaniment. She perfected her skills with Hartmut Höll and Mitsuko Shirai at the Hochschule of Karlsruhe, obtained the Lied Konzertexamination there, and completed her training via numerous masterclasses with notably Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Julia Varady, Gundula Janowitz, Leonard Hokanson, Jean Koerner, Ruben Lifschitz, as well as the mime Norman Taylor.
Invited around the world to transmit the repertoire of Lied and melody, but also piano, chamber music, accompaniment, she has been teaching vocal accompaniment at the CNSMDP since 2005. For five years, she also directed the only class dedicated to French melody in Germany, at the Hochschule in Karlsruhe. Co-artistic director of the Fêtes Musicales de l'Aubrac with Alain Meunier, she is a Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters.
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