Eliane Reyes

Invited to perform on the world’s big stages, wherever she goes Eliane Reyes enchants her audiences as a pianist who is constantly exploring her art and forging new paths, while conserving the subtle touch that is her signature.  

Eliane Reyes has performed with many of the great conductors such as Rudolph Barshai, Roberto Benzi, Lionel Bringuier and Tibor Varga. She has also played in major concert halls including Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Konzerthaus (Berlin), Festspielhaus (Baden-Baden), Auditori (Barcelona), The Sage Gateshead (Birmingham), Bozar (Brussels), Philharmonic (Cologne), Philharmonic (Luxemburg), Laieszhalle (Hamburg), Cité de la Musique (Paris) and Musikverein (Vienna). Partners include violinist Lorenzo Gatto for the Rising Stars 2011 tours, Philippe Bernold, Lise Berthaud, Frank Braley, David Cohen, Marc Coppey, Henri Demarquette, Jodie Devos, Augustin Dumay, Ivry Gitlis, Philippe Graffin, Andrew Hardy, Gary Hoffman, Jean-Marc Luisada, Misha Maisky, Frédéric Pélassy, Anne Queffelec, Marc Sabbah, Raphael Sévère, José van Dam, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, the Vuillaume trio, and the Danel, Elysée, Voce and Parkanyi quartets. In 2017, Eliane Reyes toured for a month in Asia and Tokyo with the Kock Trio, and had the privilege of playing for the Imperial family of Japan in the Akasaka Palace.

In 2018 and 2019, she was invited to perform at the Nantes La Folle Journée music festival and the Roque d’Anthéron piano festival.

Her discography which embraces Chopin, Shostakovich, Debussy, Brahms, Milhaud, Tansman, Godard and Nicolas Bacri, to name a few, has earned her many awards: ‘Maestro Pianist’ in the Pianiste revue, Classic Info’s ‘Ring’, Crescendo’s ‘Joker’, 5 Diapasons and ‘Supersonic in Pizzicato’. She received ResMusica’s ‘Golden Key’ for her solo recording of Tansman’s 24 Intermezzi. Eliane Reyes has been nominated three times at the International Classical Music Awards and obtained the ‘Octaves’ of music in Belgium.

Always exploring new avenues, Eliane devised the ‘Valses Poétiques’ concerts and readings with Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, ‘Music & Philosophy’ concerts with Jean-Yves Clément and Michel Onfray, and a series of ‘En mode’ concerts associating couturiers and music history with Yann Kerlau.

Eliane was taught by her mother and gave her first recital at the age of five, receiving the César Franck prize the same year. Her meetings with Gyorgy Cziffra when she was 10, becoming the youngest award-winner of his foundation, and with Martha Argerich when she was 14, were turning points in her career as a pianist. She studied at the Royal Conservatoire in Brussels, then the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel with Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, before advancing to the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Lemmens Institute in Leuven and the CNSM in Paris under Michel Beroff, Brigitte Engerer and Jacques Rouvier.

Today, she teaches at the Royal Music Conservatory in Brussels and at Paris’s CNSM. In October 2016 she became the first Belgian pianist to receive the insignia of the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France.

Languages spoken: French, English

Photo credit: JHimmler