| Franco-American pianist Madeleine Forte has won prizes in international competitions (Viotti, Italy; Maria Canals, Spain; Guanabara, Brazil). As a girl she studied with Alfred Cortot and Wilhelm Kempff. She holds an Artist Diploma from the École Normale de Musique, Paris, and the Frédéric Chopin Academy in Warsaw. She holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Science degrees from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Rosina Lhevinne and Martin Canin. She also earned the Ph.D degree from New York University, with her dissertation on the music of Olivier Messiaen. Her book, Olivier Messiaen: the Musical Mediator, was published in 1996 by Fairleigh Dickinson Press. She has performed extensively in Europe as a recitalist and as a soloist with orchestras in Africa, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, the United States, Canada, China, Japan, and South Korea. In her teaching career she has given lectures and masterclasses at colleges and universities in Europe, North America, China, Japan, and South Korea. She is a Yamaha Performing and Recording Artist. Her most recent recordings (on the Roméo Records and Connoisseur Society labels) are devoted to the music of Ravel, Chopin, Debussy, Messiaen, Barber, Bartók, Liszt, and Beethoven. Forte is a member of the American Liszt Society and of Mu Phi Epsilon. She is the recipient of the Idaho Governor’s award for excellence in the arts. Madeleine Forte is a Fellow of Silliman College, Yale University. She tours with her husband, Allen Forte, Battell Professor emeritus of the Theory of Music, Yale University, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |