Shani Diluka

The recordings of pianist Shani Diluka, featuring choice performances of Romantic and post-Romantic repertory, have garnered an unusual number of prizes. She also plays contemporary music. As a child, Diluka won admittance to a program spearheaded by Monaco's Princess Grace that allowed children to receive dedicated music lessons as part of their regular school classes. Diluka's first album, Concertos et Pièces Lyriques de Grieg, was released in 2007 and earned several awards and five-star reviews. After several more albums, including the recital, Road 66, she backed singer-narrator Natalie Dessay on the children's Christmas album Babar et le père Noël. Diluka issued the album Cosmos in 2020, which fused the music of Beethoven with Indian ragas. She followed up that release in 2021 with The Proust Album. In addition to performing music, Diluka is also a noted poet who has been honored by the Académie Française.