Francesca Khalifa – Past Concerts

Francesca is the founder and artistic director of the Beethoven Fest New York City, a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her mentors are the Cuban pianist and pedagogue German Diez (1924-2014) and pianist Ena Bronstein-Barton, both former pupils of Claudio Arrau. Her research on German Diez is at the base of the documentary Piano Lessons, directed by Antongiulio Panizzi and produced by Moving Garden. The movie has obtained the official endorsement of the American Liszt Society, which premiered the documentary at the ALS Festival at the University of Michigan in October 2021. The film was also selected at the Silicon Beach Film Festival 2021 and will be presented in a tour of concerts and talks in 2022 through Spain, Italy, Chile, Cuba, Brazil, New Zealand and Australia. Francesca's first album, Legado, will be released in January for Sheva Collection.