Biography

Justine Verdier Aged 24, Justine Verdier studied at the in Salzburg in 2008 where she graduated brilliantly "Bakkalaureat" concert pianist with honors.

She began studying piano at the age of 4 years at the Institut Musical de Paris with Michel Denis. She then worked with the Hungarian pianist Gabriella Torma and from 1996 with pianist and composer Yves Henry.

In 1998, when she interpreted the age of 12, the Fantasy of Chopin, she had the chance to be noticed by the Polish pianist-composer Milosz Magin .. This exchange was unfortunately stopped by rewarding the sudden death of Professor in 1999.

The same year she joined the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris in the class of Ms. Victoria Melki and obtained the Higher Diploma in 2002 Execution.

She then moved to Salzburg Mozarteum in to work with with Prof.. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling then since 2007 with Prof.. Pavel Gililov.

She now resides in Seville, where she completed a year of specialization as an accompaniment to the "Foundation Barenboim-Said" with Alexander Vitlin, while still a master of solo piano with Professor Gililov at the Mozarteum.

Justine has also worked in master classes with pianists including Milosz Magin, Jean-Marc Luisada, Dominique Merlet, François-René Duchable, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Janusz Olejniczak and Galina Eguiazarova.

At 9 years she received the title of Laureate of the Cziffra Foundation which it is to this day the youngest recipient. in France she won 12 national and international competitions including:

  • UFAM winner of the competition in 1997, first prize at the Claude Kahn
  • Gold medal contest of the Kingdom of Music in 1999 and 2000
  • "First Prize with Honors" from the "Sonatina and Sonata International Youth Piano Competition" organized "Fryderyk Chopin Society of Texas" in Corpus Christi (United States).
  • She won the 2nd Prize in 2003 "Young Concert" Contest Flame and the second price "Concert" Milosz Magin International Competition.
  • In 2005 she was selected for a series of concerts of chamber music competition organized by the "Live Music Now" Menuhin Foundation in Salzburg.
  • In April 2007 she was awarded in Vienna (Austria) 3rd prize Scholarship Foundation Hildegard Maschmann
  • In May 2009 a third prize in the International Rotary-Rotaract Ramon Llull in Mallorca.
  • In February 2011 Justine is Bärenreiter Prize winner of the 10th International Mozart Competition in Salzburg

In June 2005 she was chosen by Jean-Marc Luisada for the project "The Great Piano Lesson," master-class devoted to Chopin broadcast on Japanese television NHK.

She recorded her first CD in 2003 with 2nd of Milosz Magin preliminaries for the label.

In 2008, the Spanish pianist Daniel Diaz has she created the " Duo Pianissimo "and appears regularly in France, Austria and Spain.

She was hired in 2010 by conductor Pedro Halffter working as accompanist for choirs and singers in the Opera La Maestranza in Seville.