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.