Helene Jeanney, born in Paris, from an American Mother and French Father, graduated from the Paris Conservatory at the age of 17 with first Prize in Piano and Chamber Music. She then went on with a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Indiana University and became Professor Assistant of her teacher Menahem Pressler. She also holds a Professional Studies Degree from the Juilliard School where she studied with Jerome Lowenthal. She also has studied and performed at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg, and the Banff Center of Fine Arts. Throughout her career, she has worked with several artists and teachers, including Germaine Mounier, Yevgeni Malinin, Gaby Casadesus, Nikita Magaloff, Gyorgy Sebok, and Isaac Stern.
As a recitalist, she has performed throughout Europe, Russia, Australia, and the U.S. In France she has appeared at the Chopin Festival, the Paris Summer Festival, the International Festival of Radio France and Montpellier, the International Festival of Young Soloists in Bordeaux, and in recitals sponsored by the Phillip Morris Association in Salle Gaveau, the Opera Comique, the Bosendorfer Center, and the UNESCO. She has been a soloist with the Paris National Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, New World Symphony, and Indianapolis Symphony. Ms. Jeanney's partnership with cellist Hai Ye Ni has led to a number of recitals in London, Boston, and Washington,...
Helene Jeanney, born in Paris, from an American Mother and French Father, graduated from the Paris Conservatory at the age of 17 with first Prize in Piano and Chamber Music. She then went on with a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Indiana University and became Professor Assistant of her teacher Menahem Pressler. She also holds a Professional Studies Degree from the Juilliard School where she studied with Jerome Lowenthal. She also has studied and performed at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg, and the Banff Center of Fine Arts. Throughout her career, she has worked with several artists and teachers, including Germaine Mounier, Yevgeni Malinin, Gaby Casadesus, Nikita Magaloff, Gyorgy Sebok, and Isaac Stern.
As a recitalist, she has performed throughout Europe, Russia, Australia, and the U.S. In France she has appeared at the Chopin Festival, the Paris Summer Festival, the International Festival of Radio France and Montpellier, the International Festival of Young Soloists in Bordeaux, and in recitals sponsored by the Phillip Morris Association in Salle Gaveau, the Opera Comique, the Bosendorfer Center, and the UNESCO. She has been a soloist with the Paris National Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, New World Symphony, and Indianapolis Symphony. Ms. Jeanney's partnership with cellist Hai Ye Ni has led to a number of recitals in London, Boston, and Washington, D.C. In New York, has performed as a soloist and as a chamber musician at the Alliance Française in F. Gould Theatre, the United Nations Auditorium, Rockefeller University, the Bargemusic, and at the Isaac Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall as a soloist with the New England Symphonic Ensemble.
She regularly performs at Weill Hall with her Chamber Music group “Elysium”, and is part of a piano duo with her friend pianist David Oei. She also appears frequently with the New York Philharmonic Ensembles at Merkin Concert Hall.
Ms. Jeanney has received several top awards, including prizes in the Robert Casadesus Competition, The Thomas Richner Competition, The Chopin National Competition, New York The Chopin Association, and first prize in the East and West Artists. She is a faculty member at the French-American Conservatory of Music, and at the Hoff-Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, and she can be heard on recordings with cellist Hai Ye Ni on the Naxos label, and with violinist Yuval Yaron on the Accord label.
