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Madeleine Forte

Madeleine Forte

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Madeleine (Hsu) Forte (born 20 September 1938) is a Franco-American pianist, recording artist, and Professor Emerita of Piano at the Morrison Center for the Performing Arts at Boise State University.

Early life and education

Madeleine Forte began her career at a Beethoven festival in Vichy, France. She first studied piano with her aunt, then with master pianists Alfred Cortot and Wilhelm Kempff. She has won prizes in international competitions (Viotti, Italy; Maria Canals, Spain; Guanabara, Brazil). She holds a Musicology Diploma from the École Normale de Musique de Paris in the class of Norbert Dufourcq, Artist Diplomas from the Ecole Normale and the Warsaw Conservatory in the class of Zbigniew Drzewiecki, and bachelor's and master's degrees from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Rosina Lhevinne and Martin Canin. In 1970, she received the "Josef Lhevinne Memorial Award" in New York that granted a full scholarship to complete her master's at Juilliard. She became a United States immigrant and an American Citizen in January 1976. In 1984 she received the Ph.D. degree from New York University with a dissertation on the music of Olivier Messiaen. She is a recipient of the Master Teacher Certificate, Music Teachers National Association.

Recording

Madeleine Forte has appeared as a recording artist on Radiodiffusion-television française in Paris, on Radio Warsaw, on Television O Globo, Rio-de-Janeiro, Radio Television Buenos Aires, and NBC Television, New York. She has presented solo recitals and has performed as a soloist with orchestras in France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Estonia, Hungary, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Austria, England, Norway, the United States, Canada, China, Japan, and South Korea. Her compact disc recordings of the music of Albéniz, Arensky, Barber, Bartók, Beethoven, Bizet, Busoni Chabrier, Chopin, Debussy, Falla, Glière, Khachaturian, Liszt, Manuel Infante, Messiaen, Poulenc, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, and Saint-Saëns are distributed worldwide.

Personal life

Forte is the widow of Allen Forte, American music theorist and musicologist.

Discography

Year of issueAlbum detailsRecord label
1998Maurice Ravel Sonatine / Miroirs / Pavane / Gaspard De La NuitConnoisseur Society
1999Frédéric Chopin Polonaise-Fantaisie / Sonata in B minor / Four ScherziConnoisseur Society
2001Madeleine Forte Plays MessiaenRoméo Records
2001Claude Debussy, Images / Pour Le Piano / L'isle JoyeuseConnoisseur Society
2002Chopin Played by Madeleine ForteRoméo Records
2003Barber, Bartók, Liszt, Beethoven: Piano Works Performed Live by Madeleine ForteRoméo Records
2005The Skula/Forte Duo, Live at Whitney Center, with Mariusz Skula, celloSelf-released
2006A Celebration of Duo-Piano Music, with Del ParkinsonRoméo Records
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