Florian Noack

Born on January 15, 1990, in Brussels’s Auderghem district, Florian Noack began piano lessons at age four and entered the Queen Elisabeth Chapel’s Young Exceptional Talents program in 2002, where he worked with Yuka Izutsu. His string of competition successes opened in 2005 with eight Belgian prizes, after which the teenager discovered Guy Sacre’s Piano Music and turned toward demanding works by Charles-Valentin Alkan, Nikolai Medtner, and Sergei Lyapunov. That direction sharpened in 2006 when he enrolled at the Musikhochschule Köln, studying with Vassily Lobanov, absorbing Russian literature and a reflective interpretive stance. Further honors followed, among them second prize plus the audience award at Moscow’s International Rachmaninov Competition in 2010. After completing his Köln degree he continued at the Musikhochschule Basel with Claudio Martinez-Mehner. By then he had already launched his recording career, issuing a Lyapunov album on Ars Produktion in 2013 and several further discs for the same label through the decade. His training concluded with master classes from Ferenc Rados and Rita Wagner in 2019 and 2020.

Noack has performed as soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the WDR Rundfunkorchester, and the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, appearing at the Kölner Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus Berlin, Beijing Concert Hall, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, and additional Chinese venues. Festival engagements have taken him to France’s La Roque d’Anthéron and La Folle Journée, Miami’s Piano Festival in the United States, and numerous other events. In 2018 he joined the La Dolce Volta roster with the recital Album d’un Voyageur, later recording Prokofiev and Lyapunov for the company before releasing the 2024 transcription collection I Wanna Be Like You.