Program:

- Haydn: Variations in E flat major
- Brahms: Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor

(I. Allegro non troppo, ma energico

II. Andante con espressione

III. Scherzo: Allegro — Poco più moderato                

IV. Finale: Sostenuto — Allegro non troppo e rubato — Molto sostenuto)

(intermission)

- Bach: French Suite No. 3 in B minor
- Chopin:  • 3 Mazurkas op. 59
                     • Waltz posthume in E minor

Biography

Andrea Azzi is a Lebanese-Polish pianist born in Ghazir, Lebanon, in 1994. She started taking private piano lessons at the age of five and entered the National Conservatory of Beirut in 2001. She became a student of Zeina Alam, a professor at the music school of Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik (USEK), where she also took theory, solfege, and harmony courses with Rabih Abi Rached and Edouard Tourikian, in 2004. Andrea also took piano lessons at Ecole des Arts Ghassan Yammine (EDAGY).

Her first solo recital was in 2011, in collaboration with the “Kulturzentrum” (centre culturel libano-allemand Jounieh). Andrea has performed at USEK and EDAGY in Lebanon, and in Belgium, France, and the US. She won third prize at the Third National Piano Competition, organized by the Tripoli Leaders Lions Club, in 2009.

A graduate of the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) School of Music and Performing Arts (II degree with distinction in 2016), Andrea is also an AUB alumna (BA Economics 2016). In September 2016, she enrolled in École Normale de Musique de Paris “Alfred Cortot” in the class of Michael Wladkowski. She completed the “fourth division” (brevet d’execution) in June 2017, ranking second with compliments of the jury. She earned the “diplôme supérieur d’enseignement” in 2020. Andrea currently lives in Paris where she teaches and performs.