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Labèque, Marielle (piano)
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Marielle Labèque (piano)

Katia and Marielle Labèque are sibling pianists renowned for their ensemble of synchronicity and energy. Their musical ambitions started at an early age and they rose to international fame with their contemporary rendition of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (one of the first gold records in classical music) and have since developed a stunning career with performances worldwide.

They are regular guests with the most prestigious orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Filarmonia della Scala, Philadelphia Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, the Concertgebouworkest and the Wiener Philharmoniker, under the direction of Marin Alsop, Alain Altinoglu, Semyon Bychkov, Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Gustavo Gimeno, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Pietari Inkinen, Louis Langrée, Zubin Mehta, Juanjo Mena, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Antonio Pappano, Matthias Pintscher, Georges Prêtre, Sir Simon Rattle, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas and Jaap van Zweden.

They have appeared with Baroque music ensembles such as The English Baroque Soloists with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Il Giardino Armonico with Giovanni Antonini, Musica Antica Köln with Reinhard Goebel, Venice Baroque with Andrea Marcon, and Il Pomo d’Oro with Maxim Emelyanychev, and have also toured with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Sir Simon Rattle.

Katia and Marielle have had the privilege of working with many composers including Thomas Adès, Louis Andriessen, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Bryce Dessner, Philip Glass, Osvaldo Golijov, György Ligeti, Nico Muhly and Olivier Messiaen. They have presented the world premieres of a number of concertos for two pianos: Philip Glass’s concerto at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Gustavo Dudamel; Bryce Dessner’s concerto at the Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and John Storgårds; and Nico Muhly’s In Certain Circles at the Philharmonie, Paris, with the Orchestre de Paris and Maxim Emelyanychev.

The Labèques play in renowned venues and festivals worldwide including the Wiener Musikverein, Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle (formerly Musikhalle) and Elbphilharmonie, Gasteig Munich, Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Teatro alla Scala, Berlin Philharmonie, Blossom Music Center, and Hollywood Bowl, and the Lucerne, BBC Proms, Ravinia, Tanglewood, and Salzburg festivals. Their gala concert with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker at Berlin’s Waldbühne, attended by more than 33,000 people, is available on DVD (EuroArts).

For their own label KML recordings, they have released a CD box Sisters (2014). Previous releases include a Gershwin-Bernstein album, and their project Minimalist Dream House (50 years of minimalist music). The DVD The Labeque Way, a letter to Katia and Marielle by Alessandro Baricco produced by El Deseo (Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar) and filmed by Felix Cabez is released by EuroArts. Their biography, Une vie a quatre mains by Renaud Machart is published by Buchet-Chastel.

The Labèques’ label KML Recordings has now joined the historical label Deutsche Grammophon and released five albums: Invocations, Love Stories, Amoria, Moondog, and El Chan dedicated entirely to American composer Bryce Dessner. In 2020, they released an album dedicated to the music of Philip Glass, Les Enfants Terribles.

In 2019, at the invitation of the Philharmonie Hall in Paris they presented a special weekend, “Week-end The Labèque Way”, focusing on Amoria, Invocations, and their new project for two guitars and two pianos with David Chalmin and Bryce Dessner, which included a piece written for them by Thom Yorke Don’t fear the Light, featuring Thom Yorke as special guest.

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