Lydie Solomon

Lydie Solomon (Lydie Waï Solomon) (born 1982), is a French pianist and actress, born to a Franco-Romanian father and a Korean mother. She speaks fluent French, Korean, English, and Spanish and has a working knowledge of German and Italian.

An early virtuoso Solomon began playing the piano at the age of two, and at age seven she joined the École Normale de Musique de Paris. She studied under the teaching of Pascal Devoyon and Dominique Merlet. She gave her first recital when she was ten years old in the Printemps musical de Silly, Belgium. At thirteen, she won the Radio France competition, and was given the chance to perform with the Orchestre National de Radio-France, which was broadcast on France Musique.

In 2013, Lydie Solomon introduced a new program dedicated to little-known links between Frédéric Chopin's music and those of various Cuban composers, named De Chopin à Cuba (From Chopin to Cuba). She participated in the Paris summer event « Play Me I'm Yours ».

Lydie Waï Between 2008 and 2010, Lydia Solomon started an acting career.

She joined the Cours Florent and trained at the Actors Studio.

Under the stage name of Lydie Waï, she played one of the main female roles in the final feature film "Vivre !" of , released in 2009. She plays Kim, a pianist betrayed by her over-stressed hands.

Renowned for "her talents as an excellent instrumentalist and polyglot actress", she also composed jazzy and Latino songs, giving concerts and publishing the album Harmonie with Thierry Lier in 2009.

Discography

Live concerts in Korea, CD, 2001, Dichter Liebe Classics. Harmonie, CD, 2009, Consultatis. Eldorado, Soler to Piazzolla, CD, 2011, Intrada.

Filmography

2008: Vivre ! of , , 2012: 2013: French TV series "Profilage" (Season 4, Episode 11): Sophia Kaplan