Amandine Habib - Pianist

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Amandine Habib was born in Marseilles in a family of music lovers. Her father was a jazz fan, her mother had won a first piano prize at the Tunis Conservatory at 18, her grand-parents were keen on opera and on the piano, her great grand-mother played the mandoline while singing Ladino or Yiddish melodies... Thus, Amandine’s DNA is all quavers and appoggiaturas.

​At 9, Amandine enters the Marseilles Conservatory in Nathalie Lanoë’s class then in Edouard Exerjean’s chambermusic one. In 1998, she obtains two first prizes in both subjects.

​In 2002 she is admitted to Bruno Rigutto’s class and gets the Advance Prize in 2006 at the Marseilles’s Conservatory.As an accomplished musician Amandine continues her training by obtaining a University diploma (DEUG) and a degree in musicology. She is very keen on extra- European kinds of music and regularly travels to Laos to study and record the music of the Kammu ethnic group. She gets first class honours for her master’s thesis.

In 2003 Amandine is admitted to the Superior National Music Conservatory of Lyons where she gets the Prize in 2007. She is also involved in pedagogy and obtains her piano Teaching Certificate (CA) in 2013. She manages a career as a concert performer, a soloist and a chamber-music player. As an eclectic pianist, she regularly takes part in creations : Rossini ressuscité, Les Fables de la Fontaine and numerous other of interdisciplinary performances. She performs in a duet with the jazz saxophonist Raphaël Imbert and forms “Kalia”, a duet with soprano Lucile Pessey. She constantly wishes to improve and is advised by famous pianists such as Bernard d’Ascoli, Jay Gottlieb, Bruno Rigutto, Muza Rubackyte and Zhu Xiao Mei.

She is a guest of many festivals : Festival de Musique at Saint Victor’s Abbey in Marseilles, Les Solistes de Demain in Lyons, Musicales du Luberon, Festival International de Piano at Solliès-Pont, Festival International des Nuits Pianistiques of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille Concerts. Amandine regularly gives recitals and public classes in Thaïland in Bangkok and Chiang Mai.