Winner of several international competitions, Anne-Lise Gastaldi is notably the pianist of the George Sand trio that can be found from the Folle Journée de Nantes to the Saint-Petersburg International Festival, from the Fenice of Venice to the Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec. She has premiered several pieces by contemporary composers: Noriko Baba, Daï Fujikura, Michael Jarrell, Mauro Lanza, Philippe Leroux, Misato Mochizuki, Gérard Pesson. Her discography includes many titles awarded in Classica, Le Monde de la Musique, Diapason and Télérama. She created the Elstir label that builds bridges between music and literature (with writings by writers Belinda Canonne, Diane Meur, academic Dominique Fernandez, Marina Mahler, granddaughter of the composer, Jérôme Prieur …). Painting is also present with commissions made to street artists La rouille, Levalet and Madame and to the visual artist Setsuko Klossowska de Rola.

The latest album, entitled “Le voyage imaginaire de Mozart au Japon”, was released in October 2024.
Anne-Lise Gastaldi imagines original shows, designs programs that combine the arts of which she is the pianist. She has recorded with the actor Michaël Lonsdale and with the singer Juliette, has performed with Marianne Denicourt, Anny Duperey, Benoît Poelvoorde, Lambert Wilson and artists from the Comédie-Française such as Loïc Corbery, Clément Hervieu-Léger, Didier Sandre or Véronique Vella. Winner of the renowned program “Villa Medici Hors les Murs”, she designed the show Escales Romaines which illustrates, in unpublished music and texts that she found in the archives of the Villa Medici, the life in Rome of Berlioz, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet, Debussy, Dutilleux as Prix de Rome: this show was the subject of a television report on LCI.

She imagined L’oreille de Proust given on tour in the USA to commemorate, in 2017, the centenary of the entry into the war of the United States alongside France during the First World War.

She designed Après l’heure où les thés d’après-midi finiaient …, given on several national stages, to talk about the artists called to the front during the First World War.
Her project, Colette, sa vie, son œuvre, illustrated different facets of the novelist. For 2025 she has imagined an original Satie’s Fête for the centenary of the composer’s death.
Her passion for literature and for Proust in particular led her to set up the Journées Musicales Marcel Proust which have been the subject of reports on France 2 and France 3 since the first edition in 2012. Anne-Lise Gastaldi is also artistic director of the ClassicaVal festival in Val d’Isère.

A piano teacher at the CNSMD in Lyon and the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Paris, she is also a professor of pedagogy at the CNSMD in Paris. She leads bridging projects between music, literature and painting to open up the field of possibilities for young people (all-nighters with the Philharmonie de Paris, projects with music linked to paintings in partnership with the Louvre, “Proust and Modernity” day in 2022 at the CNSMD in Lyon with the international high school, “Sports and Music: mixed doubles” in 2024, combining table tennis and chamber music as part of the “Olympic Games” Cultural Days, etc.). In this same spirit, she is, with Valérie Haluk, at the origin of Piano Project, then of Univers Parallèles, two collections of piano pieces written specifically for students by great composers of our time including P. Boulez (who wrote his last piano piece there), P. Eötvos, M. Jarrell, G. Kurtag, B. Mantovani, W. Rihm … (Universal Edition). The creation of the first was praised by France 2, France Culture and Le Monde. The creation of the second collection took place at the Cité de la Musique in Paris with the Louvre Museum as the main partner.

Finally, Anne-Lise Gastaldi is the collection director at Editions Billaudot.