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"Out of an inspiring soul" is how the piano playing of the French pianist Anne Le Bozec is often described.

She studied piano, chamber music, and song accompaniment with Theodor Paraskivesco and Anne Grappotte at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique Paris Klavier as well as in the Lied class of the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll. She completed all her studies with distinction. She has participated in masterclasses with Leonard Hokanson, Ruben Lifschitz, Gundula Janowitz, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. At international chamber music and piano competitions  (Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, Vierzon, Rouen, Guérande, Schubert Wettbewerb Graz) she has received numerous prizes; she was honored as a laureate of the "Fondation pour la Vocation" and scholarship recipient of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg for her work in the field of song. At international competitions for art song, such as Hugo Wolf in Stuttgart and Nadia et Lili Boulanger in Paris, she received the prize for her outstanding individual performance as a song pianist.

Anne Le Bozec has appeared as a guest and as a song and chamber music partner of Sabine Devieilhe, Marc Mauillon, Cyrille Dubois, Christian Immler, SunHae Im, JaeEun Lee, Ute Döring, Isabelle Druet, Amel Brahim-Djelloul, Janina Baechle, Konstantin Wolff, Roland Hermann, Philippe Huttenlocher, Didier Henry, Alain Meunier, Louis Rodde, Sandrine Tilly, Olivia Hughes, Gérard Poulet, Miguel da Silva, Michel Portal, the string quartets Akilone, Ardeo, Navarra und Parisii, the Moragues Quintet, and the vocal ensemble Rastatt. She has performed at the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Schwetzinger Festspielen, Heidelberger Frühling, Sommets musicaux Gstaad, Festival Messiaen, Salle Pleyel, Philharmonie de Paris, Opéra Bastille, Palau de la musica Valencia, and Barcelona, Philharmonien Hamburg, Cologne, Warsaw, and Luxembourg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, KKL Luzern, Wigmore Hall London, Seoul Art Center, Epta Saal Tokyo, New York Park Armory and many others.

Numerous song recordings with songs by Wolf, Schubert, Mahler, Szymanowski, Delage, Duparc, Chopin, Fauré, French composers and others received the utmost priase in the press. In the field of chamber music, she has recorded French sonatas for violin and piano with Hélène Collerette as well as the entire Beethoven and Fauré - cello sonatas as a duo with Alain Meunier. For the label Hortus and its series "Musicians and the First World War," she presented five song and chamber music programs. For the anniversary of Shakespeares's death, a Shakespeare album (NoMad) appeared in 2016 with the mezzosoprano Isabelle Druet.

Since 2005, Anne Le Bozec has been professor of song and vocal accompaniment at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique Paris. She gives masterclasses all over the world. From 2006 to 2011 she led the newly formed German class for French song at the Karlsruhe Musikhochschule. She is the artistic director of the French music festival Fêtes Musicales de l’Aubrac.