Belgian pianist Florian Noack was born in 1990 and began studying the piano at the age of 4. In 2001, at the age of 11, he was admitted to the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. He went on to perfect his skills with Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Brigitte Engerer, Dmitri Bachkirov and Vitaly Margulis. In 2015, he won the ECHO Klassik Prize as ‘Young Artist of the Year’, as well as several other competitions. He has released two CDs of piano works by Sergei Lyapunov. He was awarded the ‘Artist of the Year’ octave and the classical music octave. He now teaches at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège and regularly gives master classes.