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Florence Millet

Versatile pianist Florence Millet is equally active in traditional repertory and in contemporary music, playing both solo and in chamber groups. She is also an important educator. Millet was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1964. She attended the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMD), earning an undergraduate degree with first prizes in piano and chamber music at age 18. Her principal teachers were Gabriel Tacchino and Jean Hubeau. Millet went on to the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she earned master's and doctoral degrees after studies with Gilbert Kalish and the late Charles Rosen. In 1988 and 1989, she was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts, receiving the C.D. Jackson Award after positive evaluations from conductors Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein. She had further instruction from Paul Badura-Skoda, Peter Serkin, and Leon Fleisher, among others. In 1992, she joined Pierre Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain, remaining with the group until 2000, and she was a co-founder of the Lions Gate Trio, with which she has toured Europe, East Asia, and the Americas. She remains a member of that group, which is still active in the mid-2020s. Millet made her recording debut with the Lions Gate Trio in 1996 on the Triton album Nicolas Bacri: Musique de Chambre; she issued about a dozen chamber music albums in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. She made her solo debut on the Centaur label in 2007 with an album of music by Schubert and Schumann. Millet has appeared as a concerto soloist with such groups as the Polish Chamber Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in Russia, and the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln in Germany. Her career as a recitalist and chamber music player has taken her to prestigious venues in many countries, including the Salle Pleyel in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, and various theaters across China. She has served as artistic advisor to a number of organizations, including the Ode to Joy Festival in Hartford, Connecticut, and Echo aus Montepulciano, both of which she founded. Millet returned to the recording studio in 2023 with hornist Premysl Vojta and violinist Ye Wu on the album Modern Horn Trios, and the following year, she released John Cage: Music for Three with the same musicians. Since 1998, Millet has been Professor of Piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Köln, Germany.
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