The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts: Lise de la Salle, piano

• Lise de la Salle, piano

About The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts

The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts offer a series of musical performances by internationally acclaimed artists in a venue unmatched in New York City—the University's Caspary Auditorium. Designed by renowned architect Wallace Harrison in the 1950s, Caspary Auditorium was part of a mid-twentieth-century expansion of the Rockefeller University campus. With its intimate scale, clear sight lines, and superb acoustics, Caspary provides an extraordinary musical experience.

About Lise de la Salle, piano

Lise de la Salle began playing the piano at age four and gave her first concert 5 years later in a live broadcast on Radio France. Ms. de la Salle studied at Paris Conservatoire and made her concerto debut at 13 with Beethoven Symphony No.2 in Avignon at the Louvre. She then began a tour with Orchestre National d'Ile de France, playing Haydn's Concerto in D major. Ms. de la Salle has played with many leading orchestras across the globe, including Chicago and Boston Symphony Orchestras, Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, London Symphony, and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras. She also performs in the world's most esteemed concert halls, such as Vienna Musikverein, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Herkulessaal in Munich, and Berlin Philharmonie. In 2014 she became the first Artist-in-Residence of the Zürich Opera and performed in New York in the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center with Wiener Symphoniker. In 2004, Ms. de la Salle won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York. Later that year, the organization presented both her New York and Washington, D.C. debuts. At the Ettlingen International Competition in Germany, she won First Prize and the Bärenreiter Award.