Marie-Catherine Girod GABRIEL DUPONT La Maison dans les dunes GUSTAVE SAMAZEUILH Le Chant de la mer

Marie-Catherine Girod has won a unique place in the music world thanks to the audacious and virtuosic manner with which she defends unknown and rarely played works. With flawless technique and sincere conviction, she has introduced audiences the world over to composers such as Decaux, Tournemire, Le Flem, D'Indy, Emmanuel, Aubert, Bax and Bowen. 

At the same time, Ms. Girod devotes the same ardor and devotion to the standard repertoire, and her recordings of Chopin, Frank, Rachmaninoff and Weber have won critical and popular acclaim. 

A regular featured artist at major French music festivals, such as the Festival Chopin de Bagatelle or the Festival de Nohant, La Roque d’Anthéron, La Folle Journée in Nantes and Tokyo. Ms. Girod has performed in major venues all over Europe, including the Settembre Musica of Turin, and the Husum rare piano music festival in Germany. She is also a regular guest on radio broadcasts of France Musique and Radio Classique.

Marie Catherine Girod is Chevalier des Arts et Lettres et Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite. With an impressive discography comprising over fourty titles of which a large number are world premieres, Ms. Girod has received numerous awards for her recordings: Diapason d’Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique, 10 de Répertoire-the major French music magazines have all praised her original repertoire where one can hear Pierre Octave Ferroud and Gabriel Dupont next to Manuel Rosenthal or Gustave Samazeuilh.

The Grand Prix de l’Académie du Disque Français was awrded two times to Ms. Girod, for her recording of sonatas by Georges Auric, Henri Dutilleux and André Jolivet, and again for her complete cycle of the sonatas of Maurice Emmanuel. 

She also received the Grand Prix International Charles Cros for her recording of the works of Arthur Lourié. Recently, she recorded for Mirare the “Poème” from Gabriel Dupont with Prazàk quartet for the label Mirare Concert artist and pedagogue, she is professor in Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. 

Impassioned, enthusiastic and sensitive in all her appearances on stage, Marie-Catherine Girod strives in all her repertoire to present the piano in all its aspects at the highest artistic level.