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Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Born: 9th September 1957, Lyon

Nationality: French

The French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard was born in Lyon in 1957 and studied in his home city and at the Paris Conservatoire; his mentors included Pierre Boulez and Olivier Messiaen (both of whose music he has championed throughout his career) and Yvonne Loriod. Aimard is particularly associated with contemporary music, and was a founder member of Boulez’s Ensemble InterContemporain, with whom he has recorded music by Schoenberg, Berio, Webern, Ligeti and Boulez himself (including a Grammy-winning account of ... explosante-fixe… in 1996.

His discography also includes Messiaen’s Catalogue des Oiseaux, Turangalîla Symphony and Vingt Regards, the Ravel Piano Concertos, and a set of the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, which was Gramophone’s Recording of the Year in 1992.

Aimard is married to the pianist Tamara Stefanovich, with whom he frequently performs; he was appointed Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival in 2009, and performed Catalogue des Oiseaux al fresco there over an 18-hour period in 2016 in what The Guardian[i/] described as ‘an extraordinary feat of concentration…[and] astonishing virtuosity’.

Find out more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Laurent_Aimard

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Interview, Pierre-Laurent Aimard on Messiaen's birds

24th May 2018

The French pianist talks to Katherine about his relationship with Catalogue d'oiseaux, which he recently recorded for Pentatone.

Recording of the Week, Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Book One of JS Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier

18th August 2014

David enjoys Pierre-Laurent Aimard's performance of Book One of the Well-Tempered Clavier of JS Bach.

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