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Widely acclaimed as a key figure in the music of our time and as a leading
interpreter of the standard piano repertoire, Pierre-Laurent Aimard enjoys
an internationally celebrated career which transcends traditional boundaries.
Aimard performs throughout the world each season with the major orchestras
under conductors including Pierre Boulez, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Christoph
Eschenbach, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Simon Rattle, David Robertson, Esa-Pekka
Salonen, and Franz Welser-Möst. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in
2001 and maintains a regular presence there, as well as at the Konzerthaus
Vienna, Berlin Philharmonic, Philharmonie Cologne and South Bank Centre,
London. He is Artist-in-Residence at the Salle de Concerts Grande-Duchesse
Josephine-Charlotte, Luxemburg in 2005-06, its opening season and in 2006/07
he begins a multi-year term as Artistic Partner with the St Paul Chamber
Orchestra. Through professorships inParis and Cologne, as well as series
of concert lectures and workshops worldwide, he sheds an inspiring and
very personal light on music from all periods. He was the recipient of
the RoyalPhilharmonic Society's Instrumentalist Award in spring 2005, and
in spring 2006 he gave the world premiere performances of Peter Eötvös's
CAP-KO (dedicated to Béla Bartók) - a new concerto for acoustic
piano, keyboard and orchestra.
Born in Lyon, France in 1957, Pierre-Laurent Aimard studied at the Paris
Conservatoire with Yvonne Loriod, and in London with Maria Curcio. Early
career landmarks included winning first prize in the 1973 Messiaen Competition,
and being appointed at the age of 19 by Pierre Boulez to become the Ensemble
InterContemporain's first solo pianist. For more than 15 years Aimard has
collaborated closely with Gyorgi Ligeti, recording his complete works.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard has an extensive discography, and in recent years
he has recorded regularly for Teldec /Warner Classics. He has been honored
with ECHO Classic Awards, both in 2003 for the complete Beethoven Piano
Concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe led by Nikolaus Harnoncourt,
and in 2004 for his recording of Debussy's Images and Etudes. Aimard's
recording of Ives's “Concord” Sonata and Songs with Susan Graham
was a Grammy Award winner in 2005.
Releases in 0506 include recital discs of Ravel/Carter and Schumann; while
Mozart Piano Concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, directed from
the keyboard by Aimard, have been hailed as “one of the most exquisite
Mozart recordings of all time” (Wolfram Goertz, Die Zeit, 13 October,
2005).
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