Florian Noack

After having been named ‘Emerging Artist of the Year 2015’ by ECHO Klassik for the recording of his own piano transcriptions, Florian Noack was awarded the Diapason d’Or of the Year 2017, the International Classical Music Award (ICMA) and the Octave de la Musique for his recording of Lyapunov Piano Music – a number of prestigious awards which confirm the talent of this exceptional musician. In 2018, Florian released a CD called “Album d’un Voyageur” for La Dolce Volta, which was awarded a Diapason d’Or in March 2018 as well as an Octave de la musique in June 2019.
After a new Diapason d’or for Lyapounov’s fantastic Transcendental Studies op.11, he was awarded a CHOC by Classica, a Diapason d’or, ffff by Télérama for his very last transcriptions recording “I want to be like you”.

Florian Noack has won numerous prizes including the Rachmaninov International Competition, the International Robert Schumann Competition and the Piano Competition in Cologne. He also won the “Grandpiano” Prize from the Belgian Vocational Foundation, and has received grants and scholarships from Spes, the Fondation Banque Populaire and from the Mozart Gesellschaft.

Amongst his recent and upcoming concerts, on notes that he is the soloist of the Belgium National Orchestra in Medtner 1^st piano Concerto, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège in Franck works for piano and orchestra, the Metz National Orchestra in Grieg piano Concerto, and is the guest in recital of the Bozar in Brussels, the Musiq’3 Festival in Brussels’ Flagey, the Philharmonie de Liège, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Auditorium de Radio France, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Husum Festival and the Musikfest Kassel in Germany, etc.

He is a regular guest at numerous festivals in China, South Korea, Germany, France, Mexico and Belgium, and this year is an invited guest in the United States. He has notably performed at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, at the Philharmonie de Cologne, at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, at the Philharmonie de Paris, at the Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron, at the Konzerthaus in Dortmund, at the Philharmonie de Liège, at the Oriental Center Arts in Shanghai, in Beijing Concert Hall, at the Konzerthaus in Dortmund and at the Xinghai Concert Hall in Guangzhou.

As a soloist, Florian Noack has performed with orchestras such as the WDR Rundfunkorchester, the Orchestre Royal Philharmonique de Liège, Orchestre National d’Ile de France at the Paris Philharmonie, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, the Budapest Strings, the Charlemagne Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique d’Aquitaine, the Philharmonisches Orchester Zwickau …

Florian Noack quickly distinguished himself by his passion for rare works from the romantic and postromantic repertoire, and his concert programs often include composers such as Lyapunov, Alkan, Medtner or Dohnanyi. He is also the author of transcriptions based on orchestral works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Rimsky-Korsakov, and which have attracted the attention of musicians such as Boris Berezovsky and Cyprien Katsaris.

Born in 1990 in Brussels, he began studying the piano at the age of 4, and at 12, entered the Queen Elisabeth Chapel in the cycle for Young Exceptional Talents, where he studied with Yuka Izutsu. He then continued his studies at the Musikhochschule in Cologne with the Russian pianist and composer Vassily Lobanov, and at the Musikhochschule in Basel, with Claudio Martinez-Mehner.

Florian Noack is currently a professor at the Musikhochschule in Cologne.