François Weigel (born 1964, Trier, West Germany) is a French pianist, conductor and composer.
In 1979, he entered the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, where his teachers included Günther Ludwig, and studied composition there.
He subsequently studied piano, harmony, counterpoint, analysis, and chamber music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where his teachers included Yvonne Loriod (piano), Jean-Sébastien Béreau (orchestra conducting), Bruno Pasquier, Jean-Claude Bernède, Alain Bernaud, Roger Boutry (harmony), Alain Weber (composition).
[1] Weigel has had long-standing artistic collaborations with the Flâneries musicales de Reims, and with the Paris Bastille Opera as chorus master.
He appears regularly on radio and television programmes across Europe, such as Le Fou du roi with Stéphane Bern, Carrefour de Lodéon with Frédéric Lodéon on France Inter, Fauteuils d'Orchestre with Anne Sinclair, Le Grand Tour with Patrick de Carolis on France Télévisions, and Le monde est à vous with Jacques Martin on Antenne 2.