Biography
Benjamin d’Anfray was born in Saint-Cloud. He
studied at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Boulogne-Billancourt with Marie-Paule
Siruguet then joined the class of Billy Eidi at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement
Régional in Paris, before entering the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique
and Dance in Lyon in 2009. In 2015,after a period of study at the University of
Montréal with Jean Saulnier, he received his Master’s degree in piano and
accompaniment. A long-time history aficionado, he studied to become an
archivist-palaeographer at the École nationale des Chartes and graduated in
2012. He performs as a soloist with the Lyon Opera Orchestra and as a chamber
musician in numerous festivals including the Chopin Festival in
Bagatelle, Les Allées chantent, the Prieuré de Chirens in Isère and the Pianissimes in Lyon. He also performs
regularly as an accompanist and a voice coach with the Lyon Opera, the Lyon
National Orchestra, the Justiniana Company, the Spirito Choir and the National
Centre for Dance. He was an accompanist for the dance classes at the Lyon
Conservatoire from 2016 to 2017 and complemented his training with residencies
at the Fondation Royaumont. Interested in a romantic aesthetic and 19th
century pianos, he earned a piano-forte Master’s degree at the Université
Paris-Sorbonne after researching “19th Century piano
improvisation”. During the 2017-2018
season he was the voice coach for the production of Philippe Boesmans’ Reigen
at the Bastille Amphitheatre and for the revival of Maurice Ravel’s L’Heure
espagnole at the Opéra Bastille. Benjamin d’Anfray joined the Paris
Opera Academy in September 2017.