BIOGRAPHY

Passion and curiosity drive pianist Adriana von Franqué. Her joy in creating sonic nuances and her sensitivity for compositional subtleties are expressed in her warm and iridescent playing, which she combines with enthralling moderations during her concerts.

Adriana von Franqué was born in Berlin in 1993. She is a multiple prizewinner of the “Jugend Musiziert” competition and was awarded the Butterfly Communications Piano Prize, the Classical Music Prize of the Rotary Club of Berlin, and 2nd prize at the Elise Meyer Competition in Hamburg.
Her concert activities have taken her to stages in Europe as well as North and South America, where she has played with orchestras like the Neue Philharmonie Berlin and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Bolivia and where she has worked together with conductors like Alessandro Crudele and Weimar Arancibia, among others. In 2015, she opened an exhibition in Berlin together with the then German President Joachim Gauck.

The inclusion of all segments of society in the world of classical music is one of her primary objectives. She therefore meticulously designs her programs, which she usually moderates herself, and develops new concert formats. In addition to her ongoing collaboration with Billstedt Classics, an interactive concert series for children already documented in the NDR Hamburg Journal in 2017, she also created her own innovative concert project in 2019 as part of the CLAB Festival at Resonanzraum Hamburg.

Her debut album FILIGRANE, released on the GENUIN label in March 2024, brings together piano works composed in Paris at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. FILIGRANE was named “Album of the Week” by RBB’s radio3 and received a place on the longlist of the 02/24 Quarterly List, as well as a nomination for the 2024 Annual Prize of the German Record Critics.

In 2024/2025, she will perform in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, La Paz, Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, Santa Cruz, and Hamburg, and will hold an artist residency with the Goethe-Institut in La Paz. She is also involved in the film production of MIROIRS NO. 3 by Christian Petzold, for which she will record Ravel’s Une barque sur l’océan and Chopin’s Prelude No. 4, and will serve as a consultant to actress Paula Beer, who plays a young pianist.

She studied with Hubert Rutkowski and Aleksandar Madžar at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. She also received valuable artistic impulses from Georg Sava, Grigory Gruzman, Pavel Nersessian, Rena Shereshevskaya, Sergei Ossipenko, Bernd Goetzke, Hinrich Alpers, Katia Veekmans, and Niklas Schmidt (Trio Fontenay).

Adriana von Franqué currently lives in Berlin.

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PHOTOS

AUDIO AND VIDEO

Filigrane is out now!

Adriana von Franqué takes a musical journey through Paris on her GENUIN debut album. The world-concerting musician, known for innovative concert formats and unusual program selections, focuses on the delicate and poetic aspects of the “City of Lights”. With a sensitivity for sound and clarity, she plays music by Lili Boulanger, César Franck, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Simon Laks from Warsaw. The result is floating, atmospheric, finely crafted music that seems to incorporate the Tuileries Garden, the banks of the Seine, or the intricate lacework of the Eiffel Tower…

NEWS

15.09.2024: Filigrane was nominated for the 2024 Annual Prize of The German Record Critics’ Award!

02.08.2024: New single release: Clair de Lune by Debussy is out now on all streaming platforms! Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, etc.!

10.07.2024: Adriana von Franqué is involved in the production of Christian Petzold’s film MIROIRS NO. 3 taking place this summer. She will record “Une barque sur l’océan” by Maurice Ravel and Prélude Op. 28 No.4 by Frédéric Chopin for the film as well as coach actress Paula Beer who will play a young pianist.

06.05.2024: Radio interview about Filigrane on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

08.04.2024: Filigrane is album of the week of RBB-Kultur / Radio 3 des RBB!

05.04.2024: Filigrane was chosen for the long list of The German Record Critics’ Award!

01.03.2024: The debut album “Filigrane” is now available as CD and on Spotify , Apple Music , YouTube Music, etc.!

01.12.2023: Adriana von Franqué’s first single on Spotify , Apple Music , YouTube Music , etc. is online!
It’s a polish Christmas carol by Simon Laks called “Jezusek” and now available on GENUIN classics’ wonderful Christmas album!
 
18.10.2023: Review on Frankfurter Neue Presse/Taunus Zeitung about Adriana von Franqué’s interpretation of Chopin and Laks at Intermusicale 2023 in Oberursel.
 

30.03.2023: Adriana von Franqué makes her debut with National Symphony Orchestra of Bolivia playing Mozart Concerto No. 12 in A major KV 414 under the baton of Weimar Arancibia.

29.03.2023: Concerts in Bolivia: Live interview on Bolivia TV with Weimar Arancibia.

11.12.2022: Debut with Neue Philharmonie Berlin playing Mozart Concerto No. 12 in A major KV 414 under the baton of Jürgen Trinkewitz.

01.12.2022: Adriana von Franqué is featured in the advent calendar of the International César Franck Society talking about César Franck’s Prélude, Choral et Fugue.

01.12.2022: New YouTube video! César Franck’s Prélude, Choral et Fugue is out now on YouTube!

16.11.2022: Review of Adriana von Franqué’s piano recital at Kurhaus Bad Homburg on taunus-nachrichten.de .

CONTACT

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