Michèle Gurdal

Michèle Yuki Gurdal is a Belgian pianist. Born near Brussels, she took an interest in music at age 6, and by age 9 was performing Haydn's Piano Concerto in D major with the Belgian Chamber Orchestra on television. By 17 she graduated with honors from the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, where she studied piano, chamber music, and music history. Her teachers included Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Homero Francesch, and Anatol Ugorski. In 2005, she was awarded a fellowship at the International Piano Academy at Lake Como. She continued her studies with Dmitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler, Fou Ts'ong, William Grant Naboré, Andreas Staier, John Perry, and Claude Franck. She received a scholarship from the Wilhelm Kempff Foundation to study Beethoven with John O‘Conor. Gurdal has given numerous performances in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, England, Canada, and the United States, and she has appeared in chamber music performances with the Ensemble Cosmopolitan. Her debut CD on Challenge Classics consisted of etudes by Alexander Scriabin.
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