During the week of 27 October, Pierre-Laurent Aimard embarks on a return tour of Spain alongside long-time collaborators Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras, and Jörg Widmann. Hailed by The Guardian as ?“one of the best Messiaen …

Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s latest album, Schubert Ländler , released in May 2024, has been listed as one of the Boston Globe’s  Top 10 best classical albums of the year . It also featured on The Times’ list of  best classical albums of 2024 and was described as “captivating” …

This week marked the return of critically acclaimed pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard to the Salzburg Festival on 6 August, one of several at which he appears over the summer months this …

Early next year, Aimard returns to the States for solo recitals in Chicago (Feb 25), San Francisco (Feb 27) and Philadelphia, where he pairs his performance with a masterclass (Feb 23).

The late Olivier Messiaen is another of the modernist masters with whom Aimard enjoyed especially close personal and professional ties.

This year marks the centennial of the birth of György Ligeti, with whom Aimard shared an intimate working relationship until the Hungarian composer’s death in 2006. In a recent essay for VAN magazine, Aimard describes his late friend as “the epitome of a polyglot and a free spirit,” whose music is “irresistible in its visual poetry and the power of its gestural, formal, rhythmic and tonal influence.”