Colette Maze

Colette Maze
Birth:	16 June 1914 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Death:	19 November 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Age:	109 years, 156 days
Country:	FRA
Centenarian

Colette Maze (16 June 1914 – 19 November 2023) was a French centenarian and pianist. who at the time of her death, was one of the oldest recording pianists in the world.

Biography

Colette Maze was born in Paris, Ile-de-France, France on 16 June 1914. Her father was the manager of a fertilizer plant and Maze was educated at home until she was a teenager. She studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris when she was 15. Her teachers were Alfred Cortot and Nadia Boulanger. Maze worked as a piano teacher. She has released a number of classical records, beginning in 1998. Her fourth was in 2017, and was dedicated to Claude Debussy. On 10 February 2021, at the age of 106 years, she announced a sixth album. She is the mother of film director Fabrice Maze (born 1949). In 2023 she released her seventh album at 109.

Colette Maze died on 19 November 2023 at her home in Paris, France. At the time of her death she was still playing the piano daily to maintain her memory.

Gallery

Colette Maze in 1920.

Colette Maze (bottom right) at the Normal School of Music in the 1930s.

Colette Maze in the 1940s.

Colette Maze playing the piano at the age of 106.

Colette Maze with her dog on 14 July 2022 at the age of 108.

External Links

• 108-year-old Pianist Colette Maze YouTube, 28 June 2022

References

• Colette Maze pianiste centenaire Facebook
• Maze, Colette BnF
• Colette Maze, la pianiste de 104 ans qui rajeunit Debussy, 3 April 2018
• 4e DISQUE A 103 ANS : LA LECON DE JEUNESSE DE COLETTE MAZE Radio Classique, 17 April 2018
• The 103-year-old pianist BBC News, 1 July 2018
• 106-year-old French woman passing time in lockdown playing piano RTE, 5 February 2021
• 'Food for the spirit': French 106-year-old pianist to release sixth album Reuters, 5 February 2021
• Colette Maze, 106 ans, va vous montrer qu'il n'y pas d'âge pour le piano HuffPost, 5 February 2021
• À bientôt 107 ans, Colette Maze sort son 6e album de piano Neo (Facebook), 14 May 2021
• Merci à tous pour vos gentils vœux d’anniversaire qui me touchent Colette Maze pianiste centenaire (Facebook), 16 June 2021
• À 108 ans, la pianiste Colette Maze défie le temps et sort un nouvel album Le Figaro, 31 March 2023
• Colette Maze, one hundred years of piano YouTube, 31 March 2023
• Anniversaire : qui est Colette Maze, la pianiste qui fête aujourd’hui ses 109 ans et sort un nouvel album ? France Info, 16 June 2023
• https://twitter.com/TF1Info/status/1727068513750155396
• Pianist Colette Maze dies at 109 Paudal, 21 November 2023