Geneviève Joy (French: [ʒənvjɛv ʒwa]; 4 October 1919 – 27 November 2009)[1][2] was a French classical and modernist pianist who, at the end of World War II in 1945, formed a critically acclaimed duo-piano partnership[3] with Jacqueline Robin which lasted for forty-five years, until 1990.
A native of the small commune of Bernaville in the Somme department in Northern France region of Picardy,[4] she was the daughter of Lina Breton from Bernaville and her Irish husband Charles Joy who served with the British Army during World War I.
[5] Geneviève Joy was a piano child prodigy who was accepted to the Conservatoire de Paris in 1932 at the age of 12.
In 1982, she served on the jury of the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition.
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