Marie-Ange Nguci

Pianist from Albania
1998 (unsure) -

Marie-Ange Nguci (also Marie-Ange Sopiqoti-Nguci) is an Albanian-born pianist, born in 1998, who also holds French nationality. She grew up in Albania and at 13 was admitted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where she studied with Nicholas Angelich. In 2014, aged 16, she earned her Master's degree in piano performance with first-class honours by unanimous decision of the jury, followed by the Artist Diploma in 2016. She also holds a diploma in ondes Martenot and a Master's in music pedagogy, and plays the cello and the organ. She studied orchestral conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. At 18 she became the youngest student admitted to the doctoral programme in music at the City University of New York.

She won First Prize at the Lagny-sur-Marne International Piano Competition (2011) and at the MacKenzie Awards International Piano Competition in New York (2015), and received the Charles Oulmont Prize (2016). Her debut album En Miroir (Mirare), with works by Bach, Franck, Saint-Saëns and Thierry Escaich, won a Choc de Classica in 2018.

She appears regularly at the Vienna Musikverein, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Tonhalle Zürich and the Sydney Opera House. She has been artist in residence at Radio France and with several orchestras, and increasingly conducts or directs from the keyboard. Vanity Fair France named her one of the under-30 pioneers changing the world. Source: Rondo DB

Usual Name Marie-Ange Nguci
Alternative Spellings Marie-Ange Sopiqoti-Nguci
Links Official website ,  Mirare ,  KD Schmid ,  Bach Cantatas Website ,  Operabase

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