Pierre Laurent Aimard

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Pierre-Laurent 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 through professorships in Paris 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 Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist Award in spring 2005, and in spring 2006 he plays 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 2005-06 include a solo disc of works by Ravel and Carter, and Mozart Piano Concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe directed from the keyboard by Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

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