Stéphane Blet (born 9 March 1969) is a French classical pianist and composer. Born in Paris, Blet is a disciple of the great American pianist Byron Janis who discovered an exceptional talent in him and invited him to New York. He was too a young assistant of Vladimir Horowitz. In 1986, he began, an international concert career. His recitals at the salle Gaveau and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées earned him the success of the public, and during his "Franz Liszt marathon" in February 1987 he was applauded more than thirty minutes, which made the music critic Pierre Petit say: "Stéphane Blet is more than just piano, it's the music itself." At the age of fifteen, he recorded his first album, exclusively devoted to Franz Liszt. He has also been a concert performer since the age of fifteen. One year later he signed with Philips Classics, for whom he recorded two new CDs, still dedicated to the Hungarian composer, including the Piano Sonata in B minor, selected for the meilleurs CD Diapason 1989, which led André Boucourechliev to write: "From his body to body with the work is born a superb architecture, chanted in turn by majesty and the most intense lyricism. And what a sound! We appreciate the true musician and his wonderful understanding of the work... we forget everything to devote ourselves to emotion... it is the state of grace!". As for Carlo Maria Giulini, he emphasized "an amazing technique and the most beautiful piano sound". It was then the beginning of a large discography of about forty CDs for different labels. At the same time, Stéphane Blet has composed more than 300 works for piano, violin, orchestra, human voice, published by the Alphonse Leduc publishing house, Lemoine, Combre, Zurfluh, Durand-Eschig, Lafitan, Fertile plaine, Soldano, performed and recorded by pianists such as Cyprien Katsaris, Alexandre Paley, İdil Biret, Evelina Borbei, Natalia Sitolenko, Jean Muller. In 1993, he created an event by transcribing the monumental Liszt Faust Symphony, which earned him several awards, including one from the Franz Liszt Association. He also composed a large cycle of Turkish and Ottoman Rhapsodies and was decorated in 1996 by the Turkish government for this work. Blet participated on the jury of the École normale de musique de Paris, before being appointed a professor in 2001. He also chaired a large number of international competitions, including the Istanbul International Piano Competition, which he created in 2013. He is also the author of about fifteen musicological works about the works of Frédéric Chopin, Erik Satie, Franz Liszt, and Robert Schumann, as well as a piano method, Le Voyage Magique (after an American concept) published at éditions Leduc. For twenty-five years Blet was vice-president of the Académie du disque lyrique and created the "Grand Orphée d'Or Leyla Gencer" prize in 2010, in homage to the great Turkish singer. In France he received la médaille d'Or de la Société d'Encouragement au Progrès au Sénat, et a été élevé au grade de Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres par le gouvernement français en juillet 2005. L'ACEG (SACEM) lui a décerné le prix de « pianiste de l'année » en 2007. Le magazine Marianne l'a célébré comme le « Roi du clavier ». Il enregistre désormais pour le label français Calliope.