"an ideal performance played from the heart"  - Fono Forum Germany
                                                            
                                                                  

                         

       Pianist  Francine Kay has been featured soloist with many North American Orchestras, including the Princeton Symphony and the Toronto Symphony; Solo and chamber music performer at Salle Gaveau in Paris, New York's Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, Trinity Church, Symphony Space, Steinway Hall, The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., The Dame Myra Hess Concerts in Chicago, The Saratoga Chamber Music Festival, The Banff Summer Festival, The Icicle Creek International Chamber Music Festival; has made critically acclaimed recordings of solo works by Debussy, Ravel, Satie, and chamber music by Rachmaninoff and Janacek; winner of the New York Pro Piano Competition.

Collaborations with The Avalon String Quartet, The Penderecki String Quartet, The Wister Quartet, Ballet Hispanico. Graduate of The Juilliard School (M.M.) and SUNY Stony Brook (DMA).

Francine Kay is a piano teacher at Princeton University.



Rare is the pianist nowadays who can play Debussy with such richness of sonority, such refinement in the variety of attacks, such a sense of architecture. The result is prodigious, incomparably luxuriant in sound, bold and effortless. All we can do is wait with bated breath for more from this innately original artist"         

                                                                                - Repertoire, France

"Piano playing is magical...Kay's interpretations are highly individual, compelling...something to celebrate"

                                                                                - Ottawa Citizen


"Francine Kay played with poetic brilliance"

                                                                                - Toronto Star