Claire-Marie Le Guay with the Chicago Civic Orchestra. Le Guay has performed at a variety of prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall. Le Guay is currently recording her final two installments of the four-volume "Haydn-Mozart" series, to be released on the Universal Accord label. She has also worked as an assistant to Bruno Rigutto at the Paris Conservatoire since 2001. Claire-Marie Le Guay Claire-Marie Le Guay (born 13 June 1974) is a French classical pianist. Le Guay was born in Paris, France. She began playing piano at age 4 and entered the Paris Conservatoire at age 14, where she studied with
Marie-Claire Blais Marie-Claire Blais Marie-Claire Blais, (born 5 October 1939) is a French Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec. Blais was born to a blue collar family in Quebec City. She studied at a convent school, but had to interrupt her education to seek employment. At the age of seventeen, she enrolled in a few classes at Université Laval, where she met Jeanne Lapointe and Father Georges-Henri Lévesque, who encouraged her to write. She published her first novel "La Belle Bête" (translated as "Mad Shadows") in 1959, when she turned 20. She has since written more than