Marie-Astrid
Wybou
Pianist in Vienna
Biography
Marie-Astrid (Belgium/Switzerland) was born on May 25, 1991 in Uccle (Brussels, Belgium). As the youngest of 4 children in a musical family, she began private music lessons at the age of 3. After a year of violin lessons, she decided to take up the piano.
At the age of 12, she started piano lessons at the Woluwé-Saint-Lambert music school (Brussels) with Bernard Lemmens. In addition to high school, she not only attended courses in piano, flute, singing, historical composition and music theory, but was also accepted into the youth choir of the Brussels Opera “La Choraline”.
In 2009, she began her studies at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, first with a bachelor's degree in music theory, which she completed in 2013, and two years later with piano. There she received lessons from Aleksandar Madzar, Hans Rijckelinck and Katia Veekmans. At the “Dexia Classics” competition in September 2011, she was awarded 2nd prize in the piano category.
After completing her bachelor's degree in piano, she studied as an Erasmus student at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz with Gottfried Hemetsberger. In 2015, she began a music teaching degree at the MDW in Christiane Karajev's piano class. In June 2017, she completed her master's degree in piano performance in Brussels with distinction. Since 2022, she is studying Piano Pedagogy at the MDW in the class of Amandine Savary.
Since September 2018 she has been working as a piano teacher and accompanist at the Upper Austrian State Music Schools and in September 2023 she won a position as a piano teacher and accompanist at the Vienna City State Music Schools. Together with her husband, she founded and manages the Vienna Piano School, the Sing & Swing Academy and the Vienna Piano Summer Festival. She often performs in various chamber music and solo projects.
Videos
Johann Sebastian Bach, Präludium in Cis-Dur - BWV 872
Nikolai Kapustin, Pastoral - Concert Etudes op. 40
Maurice Ravel, Beginning of 2. Adagio - Concerto en Sol Majeur
Franz Schubert, 1. Klavierstück - D.946
Leos Janacek, 1. Andante - In the Mist
Francis Poulenc, 7. Nocturne in Es-Dur
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