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François-Frédéric Guy has enjoyed an international career alongside leading conductors such as Philippe Jordan, Kent Nagano, Daniel Harding, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, performing with prestigious orchestras including the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the BRSO, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo, and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London.
Recognized as an illustrious interpreter of Beethoven’s works, he is in demand around the world to perform in recitals, with orchestras, and in chamber music as part of his projects focusing on Beethoven’s music. Since early 2025, he has been recording the 32 Sonatas, a 9-disc box set to be released in February 2027 by the La Dolce Volta label.
Curious about the music of his time, he performs works by many contemporary composers and regularly gives world premieres. He recently premiered Tristan Murail’s concerto L’œil du Cyclone in Paris, London, Hamburg, and Tokyo and recorded a Debussy/Murail album.
François-Frédéric is invited as a jury member in major international competitions (Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, Busoni, Shanghai) and gives masterclasses at prestigious foundations (Lieven in Vienna, Villecroze, Bibliothèque La Grange-Fleuret, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, etc.).
Since 2012, he has regularly conducted various ensembles from the piano (Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Orchestre National de Lille, Sinfonia Varsovia, etc.). In September 2022, he will take over as musical director of the Microcosme ensemble, with which he will begin a complete performance of Mozart’s concertos at the Cité Bleue in Geneva in December 2025.
This year, he reunited with Philippe Jordan in Munich with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO). His most recent concerts have taken him to Paris for recitals and performances with orchestras, to Wigmore Hall in London, to Portugal where he conducted Beethoven’s five concertos and Chopin’s two from the keyboard, and to Denmark, Switzerland, and Japan with the NHK Symphony Orchestra.
In the coming months, he will perform in France, Switzerland, Turkey, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Hong Kong, where he will play and conduct Beethoven’s five concertos with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.