Annie d arco biography of rory

French pianist (1920–1998)

Musical artist

Annie d'Arco (28 October 1920 – 5 March 1998) was a 20th-century French classical pianist.

Biography

Born in Marseille, d'Arco studied the piano with Marguerite Long and won the Geneva competition in 1946. She gave her first concert with the Orchestre Lamoureux, under the direction of Eugène Bigot.

Annie d arco biography of rory

She performed both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, notably with Henryk Szeryng, André Navarra, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jean-Éric Thirault^[1] and Pierre Pierlot. She taught the piano at the École normale de musique de Paris for many years, and had many students with distinguished careers, including Christophe Larrieu, Catherine Joly and Marylin Frascone.

She was married to Gilbert Coursier, a French horn player.

D'Arco died in the 2nd arro