Vanessa Wagner is "nothing less than a phenomen".
"With her, we sense an electrifying charm, a restless sensual delight, feverish fireworks, force as well as fragility".
She was born in Rennes in 1973, studied with Dominique Merlet at the Paris Conservatory where she graduated with honours (Premier Prix) at the age of 17 and was first-nominated to join Jean-François Heisser’s finishing cycle.On the occasion of a master class, she was noticed by Leon Fleisher who recommended her to the prestigious Academy of Cadenabbia in Italy where she began working in September 1995 with the great masters Karl-Ulrich Schnabel, Dimitri Bashkirov, Murray Perahia, Alexis Weissenberg,…She was soon giving recitals all over Europe, Canada, Russia, Mexique, Argentina, Ukrainia, Hungary, Lettonia, China, Sweden, Colombia… and playing in the best-known festivals (La Roque d’Anthéron, Les Folles Journées, Klavier Ruhr Festival, Aix en Provence Festival, Musica, International Colmar Festival, Internationlal Sintra Festival, Radio France Montpellier, the Bagatelle Chopin Festival,....). She performs frequently as a soloist with orchestras in France and abroad (French National Orchestra, Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestras, Budapest Philarmonic Orchestra, National Orchestra of Mexico...) and plays regularly in the major concert halls of Paris such as the Salle Pleyel, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Théâtre du Châtelet, Cité de la Musique, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, the Franz Liszt Academy or Opera in Budapest, Bozar Hall in Bruxelles, Oriental Art Center in Shangaï, the Romanian Athenee in Bucharest, the Herkulessaal and Philharmonic Hall in Munich...Passionate about chamber music, Vanessa Wagner plays with best partners of her generation. Augustin Dumay invite her regulary to play with him.
Her interest in contemporary music pushes her to continually expend her repertoire. Pascal Dusapin’s Etudes n°3 and n°7 are dedicated to her; she premiered them in September 2000 and November 2002 respectively.She received a Victoire de la Musique in the "new talent" category in 1999.
In July 2002, she gave a filmed concert at the Roque d’Anthéron Festival (DVD Naïve) which was broadcast on Arte.Vanessa Wagner has recorded four Cds on Lyrinx: Rachmaninoff (1996), Scriabine (1998), Mozart (2000) and Schumann (2002), all of which have received the highest praise from the musical press (ffff from Télérama, Choc du Monde de la Musique, 10 from Repertoire.)In October 2005, she released a record of works for piano solo from Debussy (Ambroisie/Naïve) which is higly recommanded by international press.
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