Franco-American pianist Madeleine Forte has won prizes in international competitions in Viotti, Italy; Maria Canals, Spain; and Guanabara, Brazil. As a girl she studied with Alfred...ver másFranco-American pianist Madeleine Forte has won prizes in international competitions in Viotti, Italy; Maria Canals, Spain; and Guanabara, Brazil. As a girl she studied with Alfred Cortot and Wilhelm Kempff. She holds an artist diploma from the École Normale de Musique, Paris, and from the Frédéric Chopin Academy in Warsaw. She holds BM and MS degrees from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Rosina Lhévinne and Martin Canin. She also earned a PhD from New York University. Her book, Olivier Messiaen: The Musical Mediator, was published in 1996 by Fairleigh Dickinson Press. She is a fellow of Silliman College, Yale University. She tours with her husband, Allen Forte, Battell Professor emeritus of the Theory of Music, Yale University.ver menos