 François-Joël Thiollier

François-Joël Thiollier (born 1943) is an internationally recognized French-American classical pianist..

Thiollier was born in Paris in 1943, with both French and American citizenship.He gave his first concert in New York City at the age of 5, then commenced studies at the Paris Conservatoire with Robert Casadesus, and at the Juilliard School in New York under Sascha Gorodnitzki, graduating at the young age of eighteen.