Laurent Boukobza, Artistic Director  - France /USA

Florida International Piano Competition has invited Laurent Boukobza to participate in the 2011 Florida International Piano Competition as Artistic Director.

A Parisian native, Laurent Boukobza is a prize winner of many international competitions including First Prize in Piano and Chamber Music from the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris and from the prestigious International Academy Maurice Ravel in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France.

A recording artist with several CDs, he tours widely in Europe, the Americas, and the Far East. His teachers include Catherine Collard, Germaine Mounier, Yvonne Loriod and Michel Beroff. He presents annual master classes in France at "Academie des Arcs" and in Belgium "International Academy." He is regularly invited to the festivals of Vichy, Fontevrault, Conques, Evian, Les Arcs, Les Ecrins and Salzburg has performed in Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Romania, Singapore, Poland and the United States.

He is currently Professor of Piano and Chair of Piano Studies at the University of Central Florida, the first All-Steinway school in Florida. His CDs are available at www.amazon.com.

ArtisticDirector@FloridaPiano.org