Katia & Marielle Labèque

  • Piano Duo

Germany, North America, United Kingdom, Northern Countries, Baltic States, Asia

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Katia and Marielle Labeque are sibling pianists renowned for their ensemble of synchronicity and energy. Their musical ambitions started at an early age and they rose to international fame with their contemporary rendition of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (one of the first gold records in classical music) and have since developed a stunning career with performances worldwide.

Fifty-five years after the release of their first recording, Katia and Marielle Labèque are celebrating their extraordinary artistic careers with the album “55”, which brings together new recordings and archive recordings spanning more than half a century.
Their debut recording, “Visions de l’Amen”, was released in 1970 under the artistic direction of Olivier Messiaen and marked the beginning of one of the most extraordinary careers in contemporary music. Since then, the Labèque sisters have consistently transcended the boundaries between classical music, the contemporary repertoire, jazz, minimal music and popular traditions.
With “55”, Katia and Marielle Labèque once again underscore their unflagging curiosity, their commitment to new music and their unique role as bridges between eras, aesthetics and musical traditions. As female composers have been comparatively under-represented in the duo’s catalogue to date, 13 of the 25 new recordings are by ten different female composers.

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They have played with the most prestigious orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, Filarmonia della Scala, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic , Orchestre de Paris, Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam , Santa Cecilia and Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of John Adams, Herbert Blomstedt, Semyon Bychkov, Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Gustavo Gimeno, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Pietari Inkinen, Louis Langrée, Zubin Mehta, Juanjo Mena, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Matthias Pintscher, Georges Pretre, Sir Simon Rattle, Santtu Matias Rouvali, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Tilson Thomas and Jaap van Zweden.

They have appeared with Baroque music ensembles such as The English Baroque Soloists with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Il Giardino Armonico with Giovanni Antonini, Musica Antica with Reinhard Goebel, and Venice Baroque with Andrea Marcon, il Pomo d'Oro with Maxim Emelyanichev and also toured with The Age of Enlightenment and Sir Simon Rattle.

Katia and Marielle have had the privilege of working with many composers including Thomas Adès, Louis Andriessen, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Bryce Dessner, Philip Glass, Osvaldo Golijov, György Ligeti, Nico Muhly and Olivier Messiaen. At Walt Disney Cuoncert Hall in Los Angeles they presented the world premiere of Philip Glass's new Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel, the world premiere of Bryce Dessner's concerto at Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and John Storgards and the new concerto written by Nico Muhly « in Certain Circles » was premiered by Orchestre de Paris with Maxim Emelyanichev in 2021 and New York Philharmonic with Jaap van Zweden in 2022 at Carnegie Hall.

The Labeques play in festivals and renowned venues worldwide including the Vienna Musikverein, Hamburg Musikhalle, Munich Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall, La Scala, Berlin Philharmonie, Blossom, Hollywood Bowl, Lucerne, BBC Proms, Ravinia, Tanglewood, and Salzburg. An audience of more than 33,000 attended a gala concert with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle at Berlin's Waldbuhne, now available on DVD (EuroArts). A record audience of more than 100,000 attended the Vienna Summer Night Concert in Schonbrunn (now available on CD and DVD by SONY). More than 1.5 million viewers followed the event worldwide on television.

At the invitation of the Philharmonie in Paris for a special «Week End» , attention was focused on “Amoria”, “Invocations” and their new project for two guitars and two pianos with David Chalmin and Bryce Dessner including a piece written for them by Thom Yorke “Don’t fear the Light” with Thom Yorke as special guest. Their new CD «Sonic Wires» was released in 2024.

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New Release “55”: Katia & Marielle Labèque Celebrate 55 Years of Recording

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Expansion of Territorial Representation for the Labèque Sisters: North America, the UK, the Nordic countries, the Baltic states, and Asia

Congratulations to Our OPUS Klassik 2025 Award Winners!

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New Release – Electric Fields

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We celebrate by being on stage!

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New CD coming out: Sonic Wires

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Katia and Marielle Labèque give an energetic concert with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

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Lunch concert with Katia & Marielle Labèque

Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

GLASS Cocteau Trilogy / Katia & Marielle Labèque

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Katia & Marielle Labèque perform German premiere in Düsseldorf

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Katia & Marielle Labèque: US Premiere of „In Certain Circles“ by Nico Muhly at Carnegie Hall

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Katia & Marielle Labèque as guests at Gewandhaus zu Leipzig

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Katia & Marielle Labèque - New video for Glass album

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Katia & Marielle Labèque - These Sisters Have Transformed the Piano Duo

Concerts

  • Katia & Marielle Labèque

    Remagen, 6:00 pm

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    Program:

    Four Hands:

    Fanny Mendelssohn - Melodie Op 4 No 2

    Felix Mendelssohn - Op 67 Chants sans Paroles dédié a Sophie Rosen

    Felix Mendelssohn - Op 62 Chants sans Paroles dédié a Clara Schumann

    Fanny Mendelssohn - Chants sans Paroles Op 8 No 1

    Marie Jaell - Valse No 8

    Gabriel Fauré - Le Jardin de Dolly dédié a sa fille Dolly

    Maurice Ravel - Le Jardin Féerique dédié a Jeanne et Jean Godebski

     

    Two Pianos:

    Claude Debussy/Henri Dutilleux - Clair de Lune.

    Grazyna Bacewicz - Etude No 4 (piano solo M)

    Grazyna Bacewicz - Piece Caractéristique No 1

    Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - The Song of Abayi

    Margaret Bonds - Troubled Water

    Leonard Bernstein - Jet Song, Somewhere , Tonight

    Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind

    Bryce Dessner How to Dance  dédié a Jessica Dessner

    Location:

    Landes-Stiftung Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck

    Organizer:

    https://www.villamusica.de

Projects

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    Katia & Marielle Labèque (Klavierduo)

    Glass

    Details

    Program:

    Philip Glass - La Belle et la Bête (arr. Michael Riesman)
    Maurice Ravel - Ma Mére l'Oye
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    Philip Glass - Les Enfants Terribles (arr. Michael Riesman)

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    Katia & Marielle Labèque (Klavierduo)

    55

    Details

    Program:

    55 Jahre auf der Bühne, 55 Jahre im Tonstudio, 55 Jahre Beweis dafür, dass Musik zeitlos ist. Anlässlich ihres 55-jährigen Jubiläums präsentieren Katia & Marielle Labèque das Programm „55“.

    Programm 1
    Four Hands: Of a Bright Garden
    Fanny Mendelssohn - Mélodie, Op. 4: No. 2, 1’41
    Felix Mendelssohn - Lieder ohne Worte VI, Op. 67: I. Andante, MWV U180, for. Clara Schumann (Arr. for piano four-hands by Robin Langley) - 2'31
    Felix Mendelssohn - Lieder ohne Worte V, Op. 62: I. Andante espressivo, MWV U185 "May Breeze", for Sophie Rosen (Arr. for piano four-hands by Robin Langley) - 2’21
    Fanny Mendelssohn - Lieder ohne Worte, No 1 Op. 8: I. Allegro moderato (Arr. for piano four-hands by Isabelle & Florence Lafitte) - 4’25
    Marie Jaell - Valse op. 8 No 8 – 2’40
    Gabriel Fauré - Le Jardin de Dolly dédié a sa fille Dolly - 5’40
    Maurice Ravel - Le Jardin Féerique dédié a Jeanne et Jean Godebski – 4’58
    Total ca. 30’

    Two Pianos: Wild is the Wind
    Claude Debussy – Suite Bergamasque, Clair de Lune (Arr. for two pianos by Henri Dutilleux), 4’42
    Grażyna Bacewicz - Etude IV, 1'34 (Marielle solo)
    Grażyna Bacewicz - Pièces Caractéristique No I. Allegretto, 1'38 (Marielle solo)
    Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou - Song of Abayi (arr. Michael Blasky for two pianos), 3'08
    Margaret Bonds - Troubled Water (Arr. for two pianos by Clémentin Bonjour), 4'04
    Leonard Bernstein - Jet Song, Somewhere, Tonight (arr. For two pianos by Irwin Kostal)
    Nina Simone (Dimitri Tiomkin) - Wild is the Wind (arr. for two pianos by Michael Blasky), 6'02
    Bryce Dessner - How to Dance dédié à Jessica Dessner, 10’
    Total ca. 34'

    Programm 2
    "Points of Light”
    Luciano Berio – Memory, 9’50
    Arvo Part - Für Alina (k solo) & Hymn to a Great City, 6’22
    Bryce Dessner - Points of Light & Coyotte (new version), 4’20
    Philip Glass - Etude No 17 (Marielle solo), No 20 (Katia solo), 19'30
    Philip Glass - Etude No 6., 4’30
    Total ca. 44’

    Two Pianos: Wild is the Wind
    Claude Debussy – Suite Bergamasque, Clair de Lune (Arr. for two pianos by Henri Dutilleux), 4’42
    Grażyna Bacewicz - Etude IV, 1'34 (Marielle solo)
    Grażyna Bacewicz - Pièces Caractéristique No I. Allegretto, 1'38 (Marielle solo)
    Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou - Song of Abayi (arr. Michael Blasky for two pianos), 3'08
    Margaret Bonds - Troubled Water (Arr. for two pianos by Clémentin Bonjour), 4'04
    Leonard Bernstein - Jet Song, Somewhere, Tonight (arr. For two pianos by Irwin Kostal)
    Nina Simone (Dimitri Tiomkin) - Wild is the Wind (arr. for two pianos by Michael Blasky), 6'02
    Bryce Dessner - How to Dance dédié à Jessica Dessner, 10’
    Total ca. 34'

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    Katia & Marielle Labèque (Klavierduo)

    55

    Details

    Program:

    55 Jahre auf der Bühne, 55 Jahre im Tonstudio, 55 Jahre Beweis dafür, dass Musik zeitlos ist. Anlässlich ihres 55-jährigen Jubiläums präsentieren Katia & Marielle Labèque das Programm „55“.

    Programm 1
    Four Hands: Of a Bright Garden
    Fanny Mendelssohn - Mélodie, Op. 4: No. 2, 1’41
    Felix Mendelssohn - Lieder ohne Worte VI, Op. 67: I. Andante, MWV U180, for. Clara Schumann (Arr. for piano four-hands by Robin Langley) - 2'31
    Felix Mendelssohn - Lieder ohne Worte V, Op. 62: I. Andante espressivo, MWV U185 "May Breeze", for Sophie Rosen (Arr. for piano four-hands by Robin Langley) - 2’21
    Fanny Mendelssohn - Lieder ohne Worte, No 1 Op. 8: I. Allegro moderato (Arr. for piano four-hands by Isabelle & Florence Lafitte) - 4’25
    Marie Jaell - Valse op. 8 No 8 – 2’40
    Gabriel Fauré - Le Jardin de Dolly dédié a sa fille Dolly - 5’40
    Maurice Ravel - Le Jardin Féerique dédié a Jeanne et Jean Godebski – 4’58
    Total ca. 30’

    Two Pianos: Wild is the Wind
    Claude Debussy – Suite Bergamasque, Clair de Lune (Arr. for two pianos by Henri Dutilleux), 4’42
    Grażyna Bacewicz - Etude IV, 1'34 (Marielle solo)
    Grażyna Bacewicz - Pièces Caractéristique No I. Allegretto, 1'38 (Marielle solo)
    Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou - Song of Abayi (arr. Michael Blasky for two pianos), 3'08
    Margaret Bonds - Troubled Water (Arr. for two pianos by Clémentin Bonjour), 4'04
    Leonard Bernstein - Jet Song, Somewhere, Tonight (arr. For two pianos by Irwin Kostal)
    Nina Simone (Dimitri Tiomkin) - Wild is the Wind (arr. for two pianos by Michael Blasky), 6'02
    Bryce Dessner - How to Dance dédié à Jessica Dessner, 10’
    Total ca. 34'

    Programm 2
    "Points of Light”
    Luciano Berio – Memory, 9’50
    Arvo Part - Für Alina (k solo) & Hymn to a Great City, 6’22
    Bryce Dessner - Points of Light & Coyotte (new version), 4’20
    Philip Glass - Etude No 17 (Marielle solo), No 20 (Katia solo), 19'30
    Philip Glass - Etude No 6., 4’30
    Total ca. 44’

    Two Pianos: Wild is the Wind
    Claude Debussy – Suite Bergamasque, Clair de Lune (Arr. for two pianos by Henri Dutilleux), 4’42
    Grażyna Bacewicz - Etude IV, 1'34 (Marielle solo)
    Grażyna Bacewicz - Pièces Caractéristique No I. Allegretto, 1'38 (Marielle solo)
    Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou - Song of Abayi (arr. Michael Blasky for two pianos), 3'08
    Margaret Bonds - Troubled Water (Arr. for two pianos by Clémentin Bonjour), 4'04
    Leonard Bernstein - Jet Song, Somewhere, Tonight (arr. For two pianos by Irwin Kostal)
    Nina Simone (Dimitri Tiomkin) - Wild is the Wind (arr. for two pianos by Michael Blasky), 6'02
    Bryce Dessner - How to Dance dédié à Jessica Dessner, 10’
    Total ca. 34'

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