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After studying at the Avignon Conservatoire, Laure Favre-Kahn At the age of 17, he was unanimously awarded first prize for piano at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, in the class of Bruno Rigutto.
Winner of the Adami Classical Newcomer Award in 1999, she recorded her first album, dedicated to Schumann, at the age of 20, followed by a Chopin album, for the label Arion. Since then, she has been performing regularly in France and abroad, and is invited by numerous orchestras and performs at the most major festivals.
In 2001, she won first prize at the ProPiano International Competition in New York and gave a recital at Carnegie Weill Hall that same year. Following this concert, she was named ProPiano Artist of the Year and recorded an album of works by Reynaldo Hahn, which was acclaimed by critics from the The New York Times.
Since 2003, Laure Favre-Kahn has recorded eight live albums for the label Transart ; concertos by Schumann, Chopin and Tchaikovsky, three Chopin recitals, a programme devoted to Rachmaninov, followed by Gottschalk, as well as a CD on the theme of dance.
Since 2005, she has given numerous concerts around the world with the violinist Nemanja Radulović. In 2018, Laure featured on her album *Baïka*, released by Deutsche Grammophon, on which they recorded Khachaturian’s Trio with the clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer.
In 2013, Laure Favre-Kahn created her own show at the Avignon Festival, «Chopin Confidences», in which, performing alone on stage, she pays tribute to the composer, accompanied by the voice of Charles Berling.
In 2017, his album *Vers la flamme*, released by Naïve, was unanimously praised by the press.
In September 2024, her thirteenth album, *Dédicaces*, was released – an original project in which 14 well-known figures each chose a piece for Laure to record.
Since 2004, she has been a patron of the Caméléon charity, which protects abused children in France and the Philippines.
