Katia and Marielle Labèque

The sisters Katia ( born March 11, ( according to other sources: March 3 ) 1950 in Bayonne ) and Marielle ( born March 6, 1952 in Bayonne ) is a well-known French piano duo of the present.

Life

The daughters of Italian piano teacher Ada Cecchi received piano lessons from her mother before she attended the Conservatoire de Paris. Her wide -ranging repertoire includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Liszt and George Gershwin to contemporary composers. Her recording of original version for two pianos by Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was awarded a gold disc immediately after the appearance in 1981.

They performed worldwide with leading orchestras and conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, James Conlon, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Jesús López- Cobos, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa -Pekka Salonen, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Leonard Slatkin, and Michael Tilson Thomas.

In addition to their participation in international festivals and performances in major concert halls she also worked with numerous television stations. Your recordings with EMI, Philips and Sony. They founded a chamber music ensemble, assisting with the young musicians such as Marco Postinghel, Pascal Moragues, Herbert Mayr, Francois Leleux and Benoit Fromanger, and a foundation for the promotion of the piano literature.

Katia Labèque played beyond an album with jazz musicians Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Michel Camilo, and three albums with her former partner, John McLaughlin, and in 2001 founded with composer Dave Maric, drummer Marque Gilmore and the percussionists Julio Barreto own band, the Katia - Labèque band.

Marielle is married to the conductor Semyon Bychkov.