- Keith Faure
Keith George Faure (b. June, 1951), from Norlane, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian citizen convicted of multiple murder, currently serving life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 19 years for the role in the Melbourne gangland killings. Faure's criminal history includes further convictions for armed robbery, breaking and entering and manslaughter. - Duncan Faure
Duncan Faure (born December 16, 1956 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a singer/songwriter and musician. He rose to fame in the mid-1970s as one of the frontmen for the South African rock band Rabbitt. In 1978, Faure stepped in as lead singer for the Scottish pop band Bay City Rollers, and would record three albums with them. Still very much active in the music business, Duncan continues to write songs, record and perform. - Edgar Faure
Edgar Faure (August 18, 1908 - March 30, 1988) was a French politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist. - Émile Alphonse Faure
Émile Alphonse Faure designed the modern rechargeable lead battery in 1881. His innovation involved coating the cast lead anodes with a paste of lead oxide and sulfuric acid. The Faure design improved conductivity, durability, and manufacturability. The Faure battery was the first lead-acid battery to be manufactured on a large scale. The battery was strong enough to power an automobile. - Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers. His harmonic and melodic language affected how harmony was later taught. - Élie Faure
Jacques Élie Faure was a French art historian and essayist. - Sébastien Faure
Sébastien Faure was a French anarchist (January 6 1858 (Saint-Etienne) - July 14 1942 (Royan)). - Félix Faure
Félix Faure was President of France from 1895 until his death. - Paul Faure
Paul Faure is a French archaeologist. He was born in Paris in 1916 and graduated from École normale supérieure. In 1967, he became professor of Greek language and civilization at the University Blaise Pascal at Clermont-Ferrand. He eventually became Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Athens. During his life as a scientist, Faure was connected with expeditions and studies of history, historical geography, and linguistics of the Mediterranean and Near East. - Cédric Fauré
Cédric Fauré is a football striker from France. He plays for French Ligue 2 club Reims. - Louis-Joseph Faure
Louis-Joseph Faure was a French jurist and politician who was one of the four authors of the Napoleonic Code. He was born in Le Havre and became a judge in Paris in 1791. Later he was a deputy prosecutor of the Seine, and then a member of the Council of Five Hundred and later the Tribunat. He became a member of the Conseil d'État in 1807. He submitted a report on the "Code de procédure" in 1806 and one on the "Code pénal" in 1810. - Gil Shaham
Gil Shaham (born February 19, 1971) is an award-winning violinist of Israeli descent. Born in Urbana, Illinois, he moved to Israel at the age of 2 with his parents, both scientists, Jacob Shaham and Meira Diskin. At age 10, he made debuts with the Jerusalem Symphony and Israel Philharmonic orchestras, and was admitted to Juilliard, where he studied with the famed Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. Both he and his sister, the pianist Orli Shaham, attended Columbia University. - Emanuel Ax
Emanuel Ax (born June 8, 1949) is a Jewish-American pianist. Born in Lviv, Ukraine (then a constituent republic of the Soviet Union) to parents Joachim and Hellen Ax, both Nazi concentration camp survivors. Emanuel began to study piano at the age of six and Joachim was his first piano teacher. When he has eight the family moved to Warsaw and then two years later, to Winnipeg, Canada where he continued to study music, … - Pascal Rogé
Pascal Rogé is a French pianist who was born in Paris on April 6, 1951. His playing exemplifies the elegance and subtlety said to distinguish French pianism, in his interpretation of the works of compatriot composers Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Satie, and Poulenc, among others. However, his repertoire also covers the German masters Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven. - John Mark Ainsley
John Mark Ainsley (born July 9 1963) is an English tenor. Born in Crewe, Cheshire, he was educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester and Magdalen College, Oxford. Whilst at Oxford he studied music under Anthony Rolfe Johnson, and has subsequently performed all around the world. He has made numerous recordings, one of which won a Grammy in 1995 for best operatic performance (for a recording of Don Giovanni). He regularly appears on radio and in the BBC Proms. - Véronique Gens
Véronique Gens is a French soprano. She has spent much of her career recording and performing Baroque music. Gens studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. Her debut in 1986 was with conductor William Christie. She has since worked with Marc Minkowski, René Jacobs, Christophe Rousset, Philippe Herreweghe, and Jean-Claude Malgoire. While she started out as a Baroque specialist, she has become in demand for roles in Mozart operas, and an interpreter of songs by Berlioz, … - Régine Crespin
Régine Crespin was a French operatic soprano, later a mezzo-soprano, who excelled in both the French and German repertoire. - Paul Crossley
Paul Crossley (born May 17, 1944) is a British pianist. Born in Yorkshire, his piano teacher was Fanny Waterman in Leeds. While a student at Oxford University, he was discovered by Olivier Messiaen and his wife Yvonne Loriod, who heard him play and immediately invited him to come to Paris to study with them. In 1968 he won the Messiaen Competition in Royan, France. Crossley is particularly associated with the music of Messiaen and British composers such as Michael Tippett, … - Vlado Perlemuter
Vlado Perlemuter was a French pianist with Jewish origins born in Kovno (now Kaunas, Lithuania). He came to France in 1907. He studied at the Conservatoire in Paris, first with Moszkowski then, later, with Cortot. At fifteen, he graduated from the Paris Conservatoire, where he won the First Prize playing Fauré’s "Thème et variations" before the composer (however Fauré was already deaf at that time). - Catherine Bott
Catherine Bott (September 11, 1952) is an English soprano with an international reputation as a baroque specialist. Following her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, with Arthur Reckless, she began her career as a member of the English baroque-jazz crossover group, the Swingles. By 1980 she had begun appearing frequently in the New London Consort and thereafter began performing across the world in Europe, … - Michael Schade
Michael Schade is a Canadian operatic tenor, who was born in Geneva and raised in Germany and Canada. Mr. Schade and his children, daughter Sophie and twins Lisbet and Nikolaus, and in 2006 baby Eva live in Oakville, Ontario near Toronto. Schade is considered to be one of the leading Mozart tenors on the stage today. He regularly performs at the Canadian Opera Company,Vienna Staatsoper, Salzburg Festival, Metropolitan Opera, Washington Opera, Opéra National de Paris, … - Charles Rosen
Charles Rosen (born May 5, 1927) is an American pianist and music theorist. He was a piano student of Moriz Rosenthal. In an interview published in the June 2007 edition of "BBC Music Magazine", however, Rosen cites Josef Hofmann, whom he claims to have heard every year from age three, as a greater influence. Rosen recalls having played for Leopold Godowsky at age seven; Godowsky asked Rosen what he would like to be when he grew up, and, to Godowsky's amusement, … - Jean-Paul Fouchécourt
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt is a French tenor, mostly as an opera singer. He was born on August 20, 1958, at Blanzy in the Burgundy region. He is best known for singing French Baroque music, especially the parts called in French "haut-contre", written for a very high tenor voice with no falsetto singing. He has performed and recorded for some of the top specialists in Baroque opera, namely William Christie (who gave him his first major roles), Marc Minkowski, … - Gaby Casadesus
Gaby Casadesus was a pianist and teacher born in Marseilles, France. Born Gaby l'Hôte, she studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Louis Diémer and Marguerite Long and was awarded the first prize in piano at the age of 16. She later won the Prix Pagès, which was the most prestigious award in France at the time for which women were eligible. She married Robert Casadesus in 1921, with whom she founded the Robert and Gaby Casadesus duo. - Yves Nat
Yves Nat (born 29 December 1890 in Béziers; died 31 August 1956 in Paris) was a French pianist and composer. Yves Nat showed an early aptitude for both piano and composition. By the age of seven he was allowed to improvise each Sunday at the organ of Béziers' cathedral during mass. At the age of ten he conducted his own "Fantasie" for orchestra. - Pierre Villette
Pierre Villette was a French composer of choral and instrumental music. Pierre Villette was born into a musical family in 1926. He studied with Marcel Dupré before attending the Paris Conservatoire. Pierre Boulez was a fellow student but their careers followed very different paths. In 1957 Villette was appointed director of the Conservatoire in Besançon, the capital of the Franche-Comté region. - Lola Bobesco
Lola Bobesco was a Belgian violinist of Romanian origin. She began her career as a child prodigy, giving her first recital at the age of 6 together with her father. She gained her first prize at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1934. She became known internationally after obtaining the seventh prize at the Eugène Ysaÿe contest, in 1937. She founded in 1958 the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie. - Sally Pinkas
Sally Pinkas is a pianist, born and raised in Israel. She moved to the United States as a teenager to study piano. She earned performance degrees from Indiana University and the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Ph.D. in Composition and Theory from Brandeis University. She made her debut in London in 1983. Pinkas currently serves as Professor of Music in Dartmouth College, Hanover, … - Camille Maurane
Camille Maurane is a French baritone singer. His father was a music teacher and he started singing as a child in the Maîtrise Saint-Evode in Rouen. He studied in the Paris Conservatoire in the class of Claire Croiza (1936-1939). He began his professional career as a singer in 1940 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. His voice is typical of the baryton-martin range (between baritone and tenor). - Naida Cole
Naida Cole is a pianist. She studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, the Université de Montréal, the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and the Fondazione Internazionale per il pianoforte in Cadenabbia, Italy. She has recorded music by Fauré, Chabrier, Satie and Ravel. She has also presented the music of Messiaen, Bartok, Beethoven, Brahms, Chabrier, Chopin, Corigliano, Debussy, Fauré, Liszt, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Schubert, … - Alfred Desenclos
Alfred Desenclos, was a French composer of classical (modern) music. Desenclos had to work as an industrial designer until the age of 20 to help support his family. He had to renounce continuing his general studies, but eventually entered the Conservatory in Roubaix, France in 1929 to study piano - until that time he had played only as an amateur. His sacred music compositions belong to the tradition begun by Saint-Saëns and continued by Fauré. - Fambaré Ouattara Natchaba
Fambaré Ouattara Natchaba is a current member and former speaker of the Togolese National Assembly. Currently he is a member of the Pan-African Parliament representing Togo. A prominent member of the ruling Rally of the Togolese People (RPT) party, Natchaba has held many positions in government including - RPT Delegate to the Togolese National Conference (1991), Foreign Minister (14 September 1992-20 March 1994), and President of the RPT parliamentary group. - Silvia Marcovici
Silvia Marcovici is a Romanian classical violinist. Born in Bacău, Romania, she studied at the Conservatory in Bucharest. Her international debut was at the age of sixteen when she performed in The Hague under Bruno Maderna. In 1969, she won the first prize in the Marguerite Long/Jacques Thibaut Competition in Paris, as well as the special prize of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. In 1970, she was the winner of the first prize in the George Enescu Competition in Bucharest. - Lucien Durosoir
Lucien Durosoir was a French composer and violinist recently rediscovered thanks to manuscripts found by his son Luc. Durosoir studied the violin with Joseph Joachim and Hugo Heermann in Germany before his first tour as a young virtuoso in 1899. In addition to giving the first performances of French music in Austria-Hungary and Germany (Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Lalo,Widor, Bruneau), he also gave the French premieres of the Brahms and Strauss violin concertos in 1901. - Céline Scheen
Céline Scheen was born in Verviers, Belgium in 1976. She began her vocal studies with Annie Frantz. In 1996, she entered the Royal Academy of Mons and obtained a First Prize in the class of Marcel Vanaud. She then received a degree in song and methodology of song at the Royal Academy of Brussels. In 1998, she obtained the Nany Philippart's grant with Chapelle musicale Reine Élisabeth. For two years, she worked in the class of Vera Rosza at the Guildhall School of Music in London, … - Sébastien Érard
Sébastien Érard was a French instrument maker of German origin who specialised in the production of pianos and harps, developing the capacities of both instruments and pioneering the modern piano. He built his first pianoforte in 1777 in his Paris factory, … - Alasdair Tait
Alasdair Tait is a Scottish cellist. As a freelance artist, he partners many distinguished musicians and is a founding member of the Ulysses Ensemble. He has performed in many of the world’s major concert halls and is also much sought after as a chamber music coach and teacher. Alasdair studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester under Emma Ferrand and Ralph Kirshbaum and at the Musik Akademie in Basel, Switzerland, with Thomas Demenga. - Mieczysław Horszowski
Mieczysław Horszowski was a Polish pianist. Horszowski was born in Lwów and was initially taught by his mother, a pupil of Karol Mikuli (himself a pupil of Chopin). He became a pupil of Teodor Leszetycki in Vienna at the age of seven; Leszetycki had studied with the Beethoven pupil Carl Czerny. In 1901 he gave a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in Warsaw and soon after toured Europe and the Americas as a child prodigy. - Grazide Lizier
Grazide Lizier née Fauré was a peasant in the Comté de Foix in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century. A number of facts about her life are recorded in the Fournier Register, and her life, along with those of her fellow villagers, was analyzed in Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's "Montaillou". Grazide was the daughter of Pons and Frabrice Rives, her mother was the town wine seller. - Faure Gnassingbé
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, also known as Faure Eyadéma, has been the President of Togo since May 4, 2005; he was previously president for twenty days from February 5 to February 25, 2005. He is the son of the late president Gnassingbé Eyadéma, and was named leader of Togo following his father's death.
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