THE SCHWEIZER/MEDETBECOVA DUO
The duo
Founded in 2005, the Schweizer-Medetbecova duo is happy to share its love for the great repertoire of four-hand piano.
The musical, technical and formal mastery of the two partners, as well as their obvious complicity, are the strengths of an exciting concert from beginning to end.
The duo toured Indonesia in 2015, Kyrgyzstan in 2009 and 2017, and Macau in January 2025 for the 14th Macau Piano Competition.
He was invited to the inauguration of the auditorium of the famous piano maker Stephen Paulello, creator of the 102-key piano "op. 102", to play The Rite of Spring.
He proposes a symphonic piano four-hands program for 2025:
Beethoven: transcription of the 5th Symphony
Liszt: The Preludes (transcription by the author)
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (transcription by the author)
Ravel: Spanish Rhapsody, transcription by the author.
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KANYKEY MEDETBECOVA
Kanykey Medetbecova is a French pianist and composer of Kyrgyz origin, who has lived in France since 2002.
A highly regarded artist in her home country, she was, until 2002, a piano professor at the Kyrgyz National Conservatory, the country's highest musical institution.
She has participated in several contemporary music festivals, and has performed in Türkiye, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Macau and France.
Also a composer, she mainly wrote vocal music, pieces for piano, for saxophone ensemble, a concertino for piano and chamber orchestra, music for the theatre, and the music for the ballet "Eternity", commissioned by the Bishkek Opera.
She is the winner of the special jury prize for composition at the Lucida degli Specchi International Competition in Lucca/Massa (Italy), for her concerto for piano and string orchestra.
Since 2002, she has been a piano teacher at the National School of Music in Villeurbanne, and at the EBER Conservatory.
