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 Heureuse Félicité she was granted a pension 1,200 gourdes. In 1849, when Faustin I of Haiti became Emperor, he idealized the late Dessalines and enlarged Marie-Claire's pension as a sign of his admiration. Marie-Claire, who felt no sympathy for this attitude, refused the money. She moved in with her granddaughter, and lived in poverty until her death in 1858 in Gonaïves. In her honour, the Fondation Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur Dessalines, also known as the Fondasyon Félicité (FF), was established by Dr Bayyinah Bello in 1999 to undertake humanitarian, social and educational work in Haiti. Soon after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the