With a career of more than 15 years, award-winning Naïve recordings,
and international concert appearances – Lise de la Salle has established
herself as one of today’s exciting young artists and as a musician of real
sensibility and maturity. Her playing inspired a Washington Post critic to
write, “For much of the concert, the audience had to remember to
breathe… the exhilaration didn’t let up for a second until her hands
came off the keyboard.”
In 2023/24 she joins Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Thomas
Søndergård on tour in Scotland, then for the orchestra’s three-night
residency at Salzburg’s Grosses Festspielhaus. Other season’s highlights
include major performances with Orchestre National de France and
Stephane Denève on tour, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and
Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra under Simone Young,
Milan I Pomeriggi Musicali and James Feddeck, as well as Oxford
Philharmonic Orchestra, Macao Symphony orchestra and Beethoven
Orchester Bonn.
She has played with many leading orchestras across the globe: from
the USA (Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Atlanta Symphony Orchestras, Los
Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra), to
the UK (Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, London Symphony and Royal
Philharmonic Orchestras), across Europe in Germany (Deutsches
Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin,
Münchner Philharmoniker, Dresden
Staatskapelle, WDR Sinfoniorchester Köln, hr-Sinfonieorchester),
through her native France (Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de
France and Lyon), also performing in Italy (Orchestra dell’Accademia
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra Sinfonica
Nazionale Della RAI), further afield with Rotterdam Philharmonic
Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and in Asia
(NHK Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Tokyo
Metropolitan Symphony) among many others, and collaborated with
conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Fabio Luisi, James
Conlon, Gianandrea Noseda Krzysztof Urbanski, Antonio Pappano,
Rafael Payare, Karina Kanellakis, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Lioner
Bringuier, Fabien Gabel, Marek Janowski, Robin Ticciati, Osmö
Vanska, James Gaffigan, Semyon Bychkov, and Dennis Russell Davies.
She performs in the world’s most esteemed concert halls – Vienna
Musikverein, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Herkulessaal in Munich,
Berlin Philharmonie, Tonhalle Zürich, Lucerne KKL, Bozar in Brussels,
Wigmore and Royal Festival Halls, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées,
Hollywood Bowl, and festivals – Klavier Festival Ruhr and Bad
Kissingen, Verbier, La Roque d’Anthéron, Bucharest Enescu Festival,
San Francisco Performances, Chicago Symphony recital series, Aspen
and Ravinia Festivals. In 2014 she became the first Artist-in-Residence
of the Zürich Opera and performed in New York in the Great Performers
Series at Lincoln Center with Wiener Symphoniker.
She also takes pleasure in educational outreach and conducts master
classes in many of the cities in which she performs.
Among her critically acclaimed Naïve CDs features an all-Chopin disc
with a live recording of the Piano Concerto No.2 with Fabio Luisi
conducting Staatskapelle Dresden. In May 2011, Naïve issued her sixth
recording, released in celebration of Liszt’s Bicentennial. The album received Diapason Magazine’s Diapason d’Or and Gramophone’s
Editor’s Choice, which stated “…the wonderfully gifted 23-year-old
Lise de la Salle gives us a Liszt recital of astonishing strength, poetry,
and, for one so young, musical maturity.” Two recordings were released
in 2018: the first Bach Unlimited is a Bach-focused album recorded with
Naïve including the Italian Concerto, Liszt’s Fantasy & Fugue on the
Theme B.A.C.H. and the Bach/Busoni Chaconne, and the second
album Paris-Moscow is recorded with French cellist Christian-Pierre La
Marca, the album offers a celebration of the musical relationship
between Paris and Moscow (Sony Classical). In 2020, she recorded
Chausson Concert with Daniel Hope and Zürcher Kammerorchester
(Deutsche Grammophon). Her latest album (2021) When do we
Dance? presents an odyssey of dances through a whole century.
Lise de la Salle started the piano at age four and gave her first
concert 5 years later in a live broadcast on Radio France. She studied at
Paris Conservatoire and made her concerto debut at 13 with Beethoven
Symphony No.2 in Avignon, her Paris recital debut at the Louvre before
going on tour with Orchestre National d’Ile de France, playing Haydn’s
Concerto in D Major. She has worked closely with Pascal Nemirovski
and was long-term advisee of Geneviève Joy-Dutilleux.
In 2004, Lise de la Salle won the Young Concert Artists International
Auditions in New York. Later that year, the organisation presented both
her New York and Washington, D.C. debuts. At the Ettlingen
International Competition in Germany, Lise de la Salle won First Prize
and the Bärenreiter Award. She has also won First Prize in many French
piano competitions.
