Billy Eidi


Billy Eidi is a French classical pianist of Lebanese background.

Biography

Born in Egypt, Eidi did his first musical studies at the Beirut Conservatory, where he graduated at fifteen.
After taking advanced training courses with in Salzbourg and Guido Agosti in Siena, he moved to Paris and worked with Jacques Coulaud at the , then with Jean Micault at the École normale de musique de Paris.
In 1981, he won second prize in the International Viotti-Valsesia Competition.
He is also a laureate of the Menuhin foundation, as well as of the "Francis Poulenc International Competition".
In his concerts throughout the world, he particularly defends the romantic repertoire and the French music of the twentieth century, striving to discover unknown authors and repertoires.
Eidi has created pieces by Erik Satie, Henri Sauguet, Maurice Jaubert, Guy Sacre,, Karol Beffa...
He is also a passionate of the French melody, who works tirelessly for a better knowledge and a renewal of the genre.
It is in this spirit that he founded the associations Contrechants and Les Donneurs de sérénades, and that he gives, with the composer Guy Sacre, concerts-conferences centred on musical and literary aesthetic themes, such as les musiques de la nuit, la musique et les éléments, and les masques et bergamasques which convene Fauré and Debussy around Verlaine and Watteau.
These tastes and these concerns are to be found in his records, to this day about fifteen, of which many premières: as well works for piano as melodies, Albert Roussel's complete work, with Marie Devellereau, Yann Beuron and Laurent Naouri.
His version of Poulenc's L'Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant, with Hugues Cuénod, is now a reference.
Among his latest records, his CD devoted to Déodat de Séverac's piano work was awarded a "Diapason d'or".
Eidi is an academic at the, the Schola Cantorum de Paris, as well as at the and Nancy.
He is regularly invited for master classes, both in France and abroad.

Discography