Vanessa Wagner

Born in Rennes in 1973, Vanessa Wagner began her training early at the city's conservatory and then at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris, before refining her craft notably with Dominique Merlet, Jean-François Heisser, Leon Fleisher and Murray Perahia. A French pianist rooted in the classical field, Vanessa Wagner has built a career that links the great repertoire, contemporary music, and more cross-cutting forms. Her playing engages as much with the works of Mozart, Schumann, Debussy, Ravel or Schubert as with those of Pascal Dusapin, Philip Glass or John Adams, with a strong interest in repetitive and minimalist writing. Revealed more widely at the end of the 1990s, she subsequently developed a career as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra and chamber musician, invited to numerous festivals and venues in France and abroad. Her discography reflects this trajectory, from Rachmaninov (1996), Scriabin (1999) and Debussy: Images & Estampes (2005) on Statea, in 2016 a joint project with Murcof at the boundary of piano and electronic textures, then Inland (2019), Study of the Invisible (2022), Mirrored (2022) and The Complete Piano Etudes by Philip Glass (2025). Vanessa Wagner also regularly works in duo, notably with Wilhem Latchoumia on This is America! (2021) and Piano Twins (2024), while artistically directing the Festival de Chambord and the piano festival at the Musée des impressionnismes de Giverny.