Karol Beffa

about

Beffa, Karol (b. 1973, Paris). French and Swiss pianist, composer and academic, of Polish descent. Karol Beffa, born in 1973, had a general education along with music studies after having been a child actor between the ages of seven and 12, appearing in more than 15 films (in particular, he performed with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano under the direction of Giorgio Strehler and portrayed the 8-year-old Mozart in a television film by Marcel Bluwal). Top of his class at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, he read history (Bachelor's degree), English (Master's), philosophy (Master's at Cambridge University) and mathematics, graduating from ENSAE (Graduate School of Economics, Statistics and Finance). Enrolling at the Paris Conservatoire in 1988, he obtained eight premiers prix (harmony, counterpoint, fugue, 20th-century music, orchestration, analysis, vocal accompaniment, piano improvisation). Coming first in the Agrégation de musique, a highly competitive examination for teachers, he taught at the Sorbonne (1998-2003) then at the Ecole Polytechnique (2003-08). In 2003, he earned his doctorate in musicology with a thesis on György Ligeti's Piano Etudes. Since 2004, he is a senior lecturer at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Pianist and improviser, Karol Beffa is a composer whose works have been performed in France (Salle Pleyel, Théâtre du Châtelet, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Auditorium Olivier Messiaen...), Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Russia, the United States and Japan

top songs

albums

Karol Beffa: Into the dark

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Karol Beffa: Talisman

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Beffa: De l'autre côté du mirroir

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Talisman

Beffa: Improvisations

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Transcriptions

Libres

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Galerie des glaces

Vanessa Benelli Mosell: [R]evolution

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Nights in the Gardens of Spain

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Karol Beffa: En blanc et noir

Improvisations

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