Colette Maze (16 June 1914 – 19 November 2023) was a French classical pianist who studied with Alfred Cortot and Nadia Boulanger.
She completed studies to be a piano teacher,[4] and taught decades at both the Ecole Normale de Musique and the conservatoire of Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine.
[1] After World War II she fell in love with a married man; she raised their son, Fabrice, as a single mother in a small apartment, cut off from her family.
[1][5] When Maze was already in 90s, her son urged her to record, to preserve the tradition of Cortot's teaching, being one of his last surviving pupils, and her unique way of playing.
[6][7][8][9] In 2023, aged 109, she released her seventh album,[10] including music by George Gershwin, Astor Piazzolla, Schumann and again Debussy,[1] some of the works with guitarist and arranger Bertrand Cazé.