Duo Solot
Biography Duo Solot
Stéphanie Salmin
is a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Mons, Belgium’s Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and the Bern University of the Arts. She studied with Françoise Dupont, Dalia Ouziel and Aleksandar Madzar. Stéphanie Salmin performs with numerous European orchestras (Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Bern Symphony Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia etc) and has won several prizes at various piano competitions.
Pierre Solot
is a graduate of the Brussels Royal Conservatory and the Eduardo del Pueyo Musical Centre. He studied in particular with Véronique Delemazure and Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden. In addition, Pierre Solot has a degree in musicology from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. He has also written a novel and a play.
Stéphanie and Pierre met in 2008 and formed the Duo Solot a year later, by which time they were married. In 2010 they won third prize at the Valberg International Piano Four- Hands Competition in France. They give recitals in Europe and Asia, covering both the four-hands and two-piano repertoires, as well as performing with orchestras and choirs. They also perform in various multimedia stage productions. In 2011 they released their first disc, devoted to Rossini operatic transcriptions, for Pavane Records.
