Alumni Bio Madeleine Forte
Madeleine Forte (Ph.D., Piano Performance, 1984) Dr. Madeleine Forte began her career at a Beethoven festival in Vichy, France. La Montagne wrote of her debut: "A new star has risen in the firmament of artistic glory. A young girl, age 13, played with great brio Beethoven's Appassionata, so that the audience stood and gave a lengthy ovation." She studied piano with master pianists Alfred Cortot and Wilhelm Kempff. She has won prizes in international competitions (Viotti, Italy; Maria Canals, Spain; Guanabara, Brazil).
Dr. Forte holds Artist Diplomas from the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris and the Warsaw Conservatory in the class of Zbigniew Drzewiecki and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Rosina Lhevinne and Martin Canin. In 1984 she completed her Ph.D. in our department with a dissertation on the music of Olivier Messiaen. Dr. Forte is a Fellow of Silliman College, Yale University.
Madeleine Forte has appeared as a recording artist on Radiodiffusion-television française in Paris, on Radio Warsaw, on Television O Globo, Rio-de-Janeiro, Radio Television Buenos Aires, and NBC Television, New York. She has presented solo recitals and has performed as a soloist with orchestras in France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Estonia, Hungary, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Austria, England, Norway, the United States, Canada, China, and Japan. She has compact disc recordings of the music of Ravel, Debussy, Messiaen, Chopin (2), and Barber. Dr.Forte is the author of several publications, including the book: Olivier Messiaen, The Musical Mediator. Forte lives in Connecticut with her husband Allen Forte, Yale University Battell Professor of the Theory of Music.
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