A Piano Recital by Amandine Habib - Chiang Mai 5th November 2009

D & M Music Studio proudly presents:
"A Piano Recital by Amandine Habib"

Location: AUA Language Center Auditorium in Chiangmai on Rajadamnern Road
Phone No: 081-682-8000
Date: November 5th, 2009
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Tickets: adults 300baht and students 200baht available to purchase on the night at the door at 6:30 pm or call 081-682-8000 for advance booking.

Amandine HABIB was born on March 22nd 1979 in Marseilles to a family of special music lovers: her grandmother sang the opera, her father had a passion for jazz and her great grandmother used to sing her Yiddish songs.

She began her musical studies at the Marseilles music Conservatoire where she was awarded the First Piano Prize in Nathalie Lanoe’s class and a First Chamber Music Prize in Edouard Exerjean’s class.

She met Bruno Rigutto just after obtaining her prize in Marseilles and she immediately wished to join his class.

In 2002 she was admitted into Bruno Rigutto’s advanced class where she stayed four years and obtained the Prize for Advanced Studies.She periodically continues to have lessons with him.

All along her years of training Amandine won the Children of the World Golden Trophy ,the Rotary Club Prize,and the prize for Excellence at the Arcachon contest.

Amandine Habib, while continuing her studies at the Conservatoire, decided to go to a faculty of musicology She passed her DEUG (diploma) and her licence.

She has always been very keen on travelling.She undertook studies in Ethnomusicology. In 2002 she went to Laos to study and record the music of the Kammu ethnic group.In 2003, with that master’s thesis she obtained her master’s degree in musicology with first class honours.

Amandine HABIB entered the Superior National Conservatoire in Lyon and obtained her prize.Amandine is a concert performer.She also teaches at the Conservatoire of Annecy.

During the past season Amandine had the privilege of playing a duet with Muza Rubackyte.She was invited to many festivals :

to the Mozart festival at‘Station Alexandre’,to St Victor Abbey in Marseilles, to play four hands with Guillaume Lazaro for Tomorrow’s soloists,and to the Treilles Foundation.