Racha Arodaky
Racha Arodaky () is a Syrian/French pianist born in Damascus. She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of Dominique Merlet. After receiving her "premier prix de conservatoire" at age 16, she went to study at the Moscow Conservatory with Yevgeny Malinin. She has also studied with Murray Perahia. She pursued a career as a recitalist in venues as diverse as the Salle Pleyel and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, Barge Music in New York, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, the concert halls of Seoul and Busan, Manege in Reims, Palais de la musique et  des congrès Strasbourg, Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes and Cairo Opera. Arodaky has been invited to festivals in France, including the Chopin Festival in Bagatelle, Piano aux Jacobins, Flâneries Musicales de Reims, the Domaine du Rayol, Les Heures Musicales du Haut-Anjou, Pionsat Castle Festival, the Festival Le Touquet Pianissime Sannois Festival, the Chopin Festival in Nohant, the "Festival Les Musiciennes" on the island of Ouessant, and the Parc Floral de Vincennes. Outside France, she has been invited to the Valldemossa Chopin Festival in Majorca, Schleswig-Holstein in Germany and Brighton, England. Since 2006, Arodaky has been  the artistic director of the "Musique à la cour" piano festival at the Château de Solliès-Pont in the Var, France.