Biography
Ramzi Yassa has appeared both live and on televisionthroughout the world in venues such as the Barbican, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Beijing Concert Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Mann Auditorium, the Musikverein, the Palau, the Palais des Beaux Arts, the Tivoli, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Forbidden City Concert Hall, the Biblioteca Alexandrina and in Egypt’s New Capital Opera in 2021 and in Aboubakr Salem Theatre in 2023.
His concerto performances have associated him with such conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Charles Groves, Yehudi Menuhin, Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Alexander Sladkovsky as well as all the major Egyptian conductors.
Ramzi Yassa was born in Cairo where he graduated from the National Conservatoire and joined the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow in the class of Sergei Dorensky.
He is the winner of the First Grand Prix in the Santander International Competition.
His recordings include among others, works by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Chopin, and the Beethoven piano concertos. His Beethoven solo sonatas CD was awarded the “Editor’s Choice” by Piano Magazine in France.
Ramzi Yassa has been in the Panel of Judges in numerous international competitions in the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Europe. He represented France in the Horowitz Competition, The Rubinstein Competition as well as the Santander Competition.
Besides his performing activities, he is a pianoforte Professor at the École Normale de Musique “Alfred Cortot” in Paris where he lives. Ramzi Yassa has given masterclasses in France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Macedonia, China, South Korea, South Africa, Cuba and Dubai.
As Artistic Director of the International Music Center - Manasterly Palace, he invited exclusive international artists in a series that lasted for more than a decade. He is the Artistic Advisor of the Manial Palace Festival.
Ramzi Yassa is highly involved with charities and has given concerts in aid of children, autistic persons, the elderly, the victims of natural disasters as well as the organization “Copts in Need”.
He also performed a series of concerts with "The Peace Orchestra" conducted by Nader Abbassi, in particular at the City Hall in Paris. Ramzi Yassa is a founder member of the ADAP, Association of Artists for Peace, and has given concerts in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Greece and Turkey.
He is the first performer musician to receive the Egyptian Merit State Prize.