Key Biscayne Piano Festival in collaboration with Miami International Piano Festival is proud to present FLORIAN NOACK (BELGIUM)

The Key Biscayne Piano Festival is proud to present, in its eighth and final concert of the inaugural season 2018-19, FLORIAN NOACK (BELGIUM)

The show will be on Friday, May 3, 2019 at 7pm.

Concert Ticket:The Concert Ticket admits one adult or child to the concert only. THIS TICKET WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLINE UNTIL FRIDAY, MAY 3 AT 4 PM. ALL OTHER CONCERT TICKET PURCHASES CAN BE MADE ON SITE AT THE BOX OFFICE.

Concert Tickets are available online and at the door.

Puntino will be selling beverages & snacks before the concert & during the Intermezzo.

For every person whom purchased a ticket for the concert online and/or at the door, Puntino will provide a 20% discount in addition to a Prosecco/wine glass if dining at Puntino.

Each of our performances will be held at the Key Biscayne Crossbridge Church (located at 160 Harbor Dr.), and performance seating is first come, first serve.

Piano Festival performances are a formal affair calling for "Miami Chic" attire.

Children 8 and up are welcome to attend.

Community service hours are available for student volunteers. Volunteers will be able to register up to Thursday, May 2, 2019. Contact Carolyn at carolyn@keybiscaynefoundation.org to learn more.

Parking is available at the front of the church.

“He gets to the heart of this music. The lush piano sound is a joy. His sensitivity of touch and strong sense of rhythm are impressive.”
−Gramophone

For his CD recording of his own piano transcriptions and paraphrases of orchestral works by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninov, the young Belgian pianist Florian Noack was named “Nachwuchskünstler des Jahres 2015, Klavier” (Emerging Artist of the Year, piano”) by ECHO Klassik, a prestigious award which confirms the unique talent of this exceptional musician.

Florian Noack has won numerous prizes at national and international competitions, 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.

He performs regularly at many festivals in China, South Korea, the United States, France, Germany and Belgium, and gives recitals in among others the Philharmonie in Cologne, the Beijing Concert Hall, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Oriental Art Center in Shanghai, the Xinghai Concert Hall in Guangzhou, the Konzerthaus in Detmold and the Comédie des Champs-Elysées in Paris.

In France, he is a regular guest of many festivals including the Chopin Festival, the Festival of Annecy, Piano en Valois, l’Esprit du Piano, and Pianissimes. Florian distinguishes himself by his passion for rare works from the romantic and post-romantic repertoire, and for his concert www.nymusartists.com 1 Florian Noack “Here and elsewhere he gets to the heart of this music. … The lush piano sound is a joy.” Gramophone www.floriannoack.com programs which often include composers such as Lyapunov, Alkan, Medtner and Dohnanyi.

He has also authored transcriptions based on orchestral works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and RimskyKorsakov, and which have been attracting the attention of musicians such as Boris Berezovsky and Cyprien Katsaris. As soloist he has performed with orchestras including the WDR Rundfunkorchester, the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, the Charlemagne Chamber Orchestra, the Symphonic Orchestra of Aquitaine and the Philharmonisches Orchester Zwickau. Florian has recently started recording the complete works for solo piano by Sergei Lyapunov for the German label Ars Produktion.

For his recording of his own transcriptions and paraphrases for the same label he received an ECHO Klassik as well as a nomination for an International Classical Music Award. Florian Noack was born in 1990 in Brussels. He began playing the piano at the age of 4, and aged 12, entered the Queen Elisabeth Musical Chapel in the program for Exceptional Young Talent, where he studied under Yuka Izutsu. He pursued his studies at the Musikhochschule in Cologne with the Russian pianist and composer, Vassily Lobanov, and at the Musikhochschule Basel with Claudio Martinez-Mehner.