Véronique Roux

Véronique Roux (born in 1955) is a French classical pianist.

She entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of 15 after a first piano prize obtained in Marseille with Pierre Barbizet, she was taught by Jeanne-Marie Darré, Geneviève Joy and Gabriel Tacchino. The winner of numerous prizes, she performs as soloist in recitals in France and Europe: Germany, England, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland.

Among the French orchestras with which she performed are the Orchestre national de Lille, the Orchestre régional de Cannes-Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur [fr], the Orchestra of the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, the Opéra de Marseille, the Haydn orchestra of Bolzano and Trente; abroad, the Orchestra of the Opera de Monte-Carlo and the chamber orchestra of the opera of Monte-Carlo, the Bayerischer Rundfunk of Munich and the RAI at Milan. She has played under the direction of chefs such as Jean-Claude Casadesus.

She perfects herself by studying with Paul Badura-Skoda, Dmitri Bashkirov, Yevgeny Malinin and György Sebők. She gives concerts in the festivals of Lille, Saint-Céré, Antibes, at the Cziffra Foundation, the Menuhin Foundation. Alongside her solo career, chamber music plays a major role in her musical career. She plays in duet with Philippe Bary,^[1] her husband, cellist at the Paris Opera, and formed the Trio Florent Schmitt, with her husband playing the cello and cellist Patricia Reibaud.

• 2nd prize unanimously at the Casella Competition in Naples (1976)
• 2nd prize for piano at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition at Bolzano (1977)
• First Prize for piano and first prize for chamber music of the Conservatoire de Paris
• Silver medal of the city of Paris at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition (1979)

• André Jolivet, First and second sonata for piano, éd. Cybelia, CY 667
• Charles Koechlin, Sonata for piano and violin; Sonata for piano and cello, Cybelia publisher, CY 663
• Albert Roussel, Trio for piano, violin and cello, Cybelia, CY 700
• Florent Schmitt, Trio sonatina for piano, violin and cello; elegiac singing for cello and piano, Cybelia, CY 700 as well as records devoted to works by Francis Poulenc and Maurice Ravel.

• Véronique Roux on Data.bnf.fr