Graciane Finzi was born in Casablanca in 1945.

Her parents, both teachers at the Casablanca Conservatory, instilled in her a love of music, and while attending the same conservatory, she attained the level necessary to enter the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris when she was only 10 years old.

While she was there, she followed courses in:

• Music theory,
• History of music,
• Sight-reading, and Piano, in the class of Joseph Benvenuti.

When she left the Paris Conservatory a few years later, she had obtained:

• First prize in harmony,
• First prize in counterpoint,
• First prize in fugue,
• First prize in composition

She has since been awarded:

• The Grand Prix de la Promotion Symphonique from the SACEM
• The Georges Enesco Prize from the SACEM
• The S.A.C.D. Prize for her opéra, Pauvre Assassin. 
• In 2001, she obtained the S.A.C.E.M. Grand Prix for all of her work.
• In 2006, the Institut de France awarded her the Chartier Prize 
• In 2013, Prix Musique SACD  
• In 2020, Prix Florent Schmitt from the Institut de France
• Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters

Between 1975 and 1979, she was Musical Director of the Festival de La Défense. 

In 1979, she was appointed Professor  at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.

Official Representative for the French Association for Artistic Action, 1997-2000, Vice-President of the International Society for Contemporary Music.

2001: Resident Composer of the Lille National Orchestra.

The works of Graciane Finzi have been played throughout the world by major soloists and orchestras (Paris, New York, London, Rome, Moscow, Helsinki, Vancouver, Nuremburg, Buenos Aires, Cologne, Calgary, Bremen, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, Madrid, Warsaw, Mexico, Athènes, Barcelone, Santiago du Chili, Stuttgart, Bologna, Venezia, Modena, Malta, Finland, Palma de Mallorca, Stockholm, etc…)