Vanessa Wagner

Pianist Vanessa Wagner performs music ranging from Mozart to collaborations with contemporary experimentalists. Wagner made her recording debut in 1996, issuing an album of music by Rachmaninov. In 2003, she backed cellist Ophélie Gaillard on a recording of Benjamin Britten's Cello Sonata, Op. 65. Wagner performed for the first time at the Bouffes du Nord theater in Paris with electronic musician Murcof. The two continued to collaborate and issued several albums together, beginning with Statea in 2016. Wagner ran as a candidate of the Animalist Party in France's 2017 legislative elections. In 2021, Wagner backed pianist Wilhem Latchoumia on the album This Is America. She and Murcof returned the following year on InFiné with Study of the Invisible.