Anne Le Bozec

Anne Le Bozec is Professeur of Vocal Accompaniment at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris and has rapidly established herself as one of the leading pianists and accompanists of her generation, playing with major artists in recital and chamber music in many countries of Europe, America and Asia.

After graduating from the CNSM de Paris in piano, vocal accompaniment and chamber music, she proceeded to Hartmut Hoell's renowned Lieder Diploma in Karlsruhe, and soon was to inaugurate the first class of French Melodies in a German Hochschule. Alongside bursaries from French, German and European Foundations, she won major prizes in international competitions for solo piano, Lied and chamber music ; among them the Schubert und die Moderne Wettbewerb Graz (Austria), the Concours Nadia and Lili Boulanger Competition (France) and the Hugo Wolf Wettbewerb (Germany).

Her recordings of vocal and instrumental chamber music have included songs by Schubert, Mahler, Fauré, Britten, Wolf, Duparc, Chopin, Szymanowsky and Brahms; as well as the complete Beethoven and Fauré cello sonatas with the distinguished French cellist Alain Meunier, and Russian flute repertoire with long time fellow Sandrine Tilly. Anne played a whole Shakespeare album with mezzo-soprano Isabelle Druet in 2016 (Shakespeare year). Six CDs feature pieces from and around the First World War. Schubert’s Winterreise with french tenor Cyrille Dubois has been released in December 2023 and was largely acclaimed in France, Germany and England (Gramophon’s Editor’s Choice). To be released soon : a tribute to Ronsard’s 500th year with baritone Marc Mauillon and a monography of the norwegian composer Agathe Backer-Grondhal with piano music and songs with soprano Karen Vourc’h.

Anne Le Bozec teaches french song, german lied, vocal accompaniment and chamber music in master-classes all over the world. She is joint artistic director with Alain Meunier of the French chamber music festival Fêtes Musicales de l’Aubrac. She co-organizes the next Congress on musical accompaniment professions, to be held in November 2024 at the Conservatoire Paris, including the first documentary ever filmed in France on this subject. She has been awarded with the French national distinction Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres.

Updated 6.9.24