Florence Millet

Florence Millet has appeared as a concert pianist on major stages in Europe, America and China and has performed with internationally renowned orchestras. She has worked with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Heinz Holliger, Elena Schwartz, Mario Bernardi, David Robertson, Jonathan Darlington, Charles Dutoit, Julia Jones. The Jack Quartet, Tbilissi, Miami and the Quatuor Danel are among her partners. The pianist, who won prizes at the William Kappel and Bösendorfer Empire competitions, has recorded both the historic piano literature and contemporary music on award-winning CDs. Her Morton Feldmann CD (Bastille Musique) was just nominated for the Prize of the German critics 2026.
The years 2023-2026 see the release of 11 CD recordings on Labels Deutsche Grammophon, Bastille, IRCAM, Wergo,Triton, CPO, ARS with works by Ligeti, Satie, J.S. Bach, Abrahamsen, Janáček, Kurtág, Kaprálova, A. Busch, Fauré, Saariaho, Höller, Feldman and Bertrand.
It was more than thirty years ago that she founded the Lions Gate Trio in the USA, an Ensemble with residencies at the Tanglewood Festival, Yale University and West Hartford U., Connecticut, USA. Thetrio is known for its interpretation of the entire piano chamber music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Fauré and Franz Schubert. In 2014 the group founded the festival "Ode to Joy" in Hartford, CT. Between 1992 and 2000 Ms. Millet performed with the Ensemble Intercontemporain. Thus she worked closely with composers such
as Elliott Carter, Hans Werner Henze, Luciano Berio, Johannes Schöllhorn, Philippe Manoury, Leonard Bernstein, Jörg Widmann, Steve Reich, Henri Dutilleux, George Crumband Tristan Murail.
She is currently professor of piano at the Cologne University of Music and Dance (HFMT) and served as chairperson of the piano department until she was elected managing director of the HfMT in Wuppertal in 2021. She gives international master classes, lecture recitals, radio broadcasts (France Musique, WDR, NDR, DLF, RTBF).
Florence Millet graduated with honors from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and completed her Masters and Doctor in Musical Arts degrees at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, under the guidance of Gilbert Kalish and Charles Rosen. Other significant influences
were Paul Badura Skoda, Leon Fleisher and Peter Serkin.