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Pierre-Laurent Aimard
PianoWidely acclaimed as a key figure in the music of our time,
Pierre-Laurent Aimard has had close collaborations with many leading composers
including György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Benjamin, Pierre Boulez
and Oliver Messiaen.
Aimard begins the
2022/23 season by receiving Denmark’s most prominent music award, the Leonie
Sonning Music Prize 2022 which will be celebrated in a series of concerts with
Royal Danish Orchestra/Cambreling and recitals in Copenhagen and Aarhus.
Elsewhere he continues to work closely with leading orchestras and conductors
across Europe including Antwerp Symphony/Herreweghe, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest/Deneve,
Deutsche Symphony Orchester Berlin/Chan, Orchestre National de Lille/Bloc and
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. He continues his collaboration with
the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen, recording Bartók’s
complete piano concertos due for release in Autumn 2023, and returns to Los
Angeles Philharmonic for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4.
In celebration of György Ligeti’s 100th Anniversary in 2023, Aimard
will perform works by the composer in collaborations throughout the season, including,
Seoul Philharmonic/Robertson for his Concerto for Piano; acclaimed German Jazz
pianist, Michael Wollny on an improvisatory project around the Etudes and continuing
to celebrate the composer through his unique recital programming.
In other chamber
projects, highlights include collaborations with Tamara Stefanovich for Visions
de l’Amen at the Boulez Saal and continued partnerships with Mark Simpson and
Jean-Guihen Queyras for trio recitals including works by Lachenmann in
Luxembourg and Vienna. Together with Isabelle Faust and Jorg Widmann, Aimard
joins Queryas for Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps touring the
work across Spain in the Autumn.
Orchestral successes of
the 2021/22 season included collaborations with Orchestre Philharmonique de
Radio France/Chung, Munich Philharmonic/Nagano, Bamberger Symphoniker/Honeck, Seattle
Symphony Orchestra/Stasevska, hr-Sinfonieorchester/Altinoglu, Wiener Symphoniker/Afkham
and the World Premiere of Klaus Ospald’s concerto with WDR/Poppe. In recital
and chamber projects, Aimard continued to champion contemporary composers,
performing works by Birtwistle, Lachenmann, Cage, Schoenberg and Andre in
Berlin, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt as well as Messiaen’s colossal Vingt
Regards in Paris and Amsterdam. In the UK highlights included Saffron
Walden for Bach’s Well Tempered Klavier and the Edinburgh Festival to
perform his Fantasy recital programme.
Having recently released a new disc of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier
Sonata and Eroica Variations for Pentatone to great critical
acclaim, Aimard releases a new recording of Visions de l’Amen with
Tamara Stefanovich in September 2022. Recent seasons have also included Messiaen’s
opus magnum Catalogue d’oiseaux which was honoured with multiple awards
including the prestigious German music critic’s award ‘Preis der Deutschen
Schallplattenkritik’. Aimard has also performed the world premieres of piano
works by Kurtág at Teatro alla Scala; Carter’s last piece Epigrams,
which was written for him; Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s works Responses; Sweet
disorder and the carefully careless and Keyboard Engine for two pianos
which received its London premiere in autumn 2019.
Through his professorship at the Hochschule Köln as well as numerous
series of concert lectures and workshops worldwide, Aimard sheds an inspiring
light on music of all periods. He was previously an Associate Professor at the
College de France, Paris and is a member of Bayerische Akademie der Schönen
Künste. He took up the position as Head of New Music at the Reina Sofía School,
Madrid in autumn 2021. In spring 2020, he re-launched a major online resource ‘Explore the Score’, after several years
work, which centres on the performance and teaching of Ligeti’s piano music in
collaboration with the Klavier-Festival Ruhr.