Lise Khatib is a pianist from the south of France. Her "full of sensitivity and unexpected vigor" playing style (G. Dewulf in Classique en Provence) opened the doors to the stage and was rewarded in international competitions (flame, CMF). She is graduated with two masters, one in musical education, and the other in concert performance from the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne and from the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève where she studied with the concertist Marc Pantillon at the -Neuchâtel in concert master. In order to nurture her artistic personality and supported by the HEMU-CL cultural foundation (Kattenburg Fund) as well as the Gertrud Rüegg foundation, she is enriched by some great pianists’ advice. She is deeply linked with many pianists such as Jérôme Granjon, Cédric Pescia, Tomoko Ogasawara, Avedis Kouyoumdian, Antoine Mourlas and Véronique Pélissero.

As a child, she started playing the piano in the Gard region (in the south of France), and move quickly from Avignon conservatory to Paris conservatory where she passed a DEM (Musical Studies Diploma) in piano in Eric Vidonne’s class, and then a DEM in musical analysis in Anthony Girard’ class ; then she studied with Marie-Paule Siruguet at the CRR of Boulogne-Billancourt where she got a second DEM in piano. To broaden her musical knowledge, she then took courses in accompaniment of melodies and lieder, chamber music and organ; she trained in many scholarly disciplines and graduated as a bachelor in musicology at Sorbonne University.

She particularly enjoys performing in solo recitals, which guarantees her both intimate and intense contact with the audience. Her favorite repertoire is French impressionist music and German music : Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann (Clara), Debussy, Fauré, Bonis (Mel)are the composers she is most dedicated to. Their intense, masterful, spiritual and quasi-philosophical musical language gives her an ever-renewed inspiration that she transmits with fervor to the public. She also play as a soloist, in the 17th Mozart Concerto, the 3rd Beethoven Concerto, and Grieg Concerto.

Her creative temperament has engaged her in various projects of chamber music. She co-created the duo La Voix du Piano with the soprano Élisabeth Montabone (The voice of the piano). In February 2020 she conducted a radio intervention (RTS-Espace 2) on the theme of the eloquence of the language of sounds. She has also a duo with the trumpeter Marco Esperti, in 2021, they recorded the CD “Le vent du XXème”. And she defends the female composer’s repertoire in the duo Lilhit which she formes with the clarinetist Hitomi Ue.

Sharing the music with as many as possible in a priority for her. This is why she is invoved in the world of pedagogy. Lise Khatib teach the piano in the conservatory of Le Mans in France. Her musical and pedagogical skills bring together a very good music mediator. In addition to several projects with specific mediations (Stravinsky's Story of the Soldier, "The Tale of a Thousand and One Keys"), Lise Khatib, in the majority of her concerts, delivers sensitive explanations to the public, accessible to all and directly linked with music, which always have unanimous success.  

Being sensitive to the challenges of the world she lives in, her vocation/passion is nourished by the hope of a more beautiful society in which art as a source of intangible happiness has an underlying role to play. To her, Music is a universal language that everyone speaks, it is a boundless link between human beings.