This year marks the centennial of the birth of György Ligeti, who considered Aimard “today’s leading interpreter of contemporary piano music.” The two shared an intimate working relationship until the …

To complete his Bartók concerto cycle with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony, Aimard recently gave what the San Francisco Chronicle pronounced “a whiz-bang account of the Second Concerto.” …

Over the coming weeks, Pierre-Laurent Aimard will return to the States for three major engagements. He will join the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen from February 17-19. The program features performances …

On October 7, during a concert with the Royal Danish Orchestra and Sylvain Cambreling at Copenhagen’s DR Koncerthuset, Pierre-Laurent Aimard was presented with the prestigious  2022 Leonie Sonning Music Prize . As well as receiving …

Marking Aimard’s third, and Stefanovich’s second, release on Pentatone, Visions is a collection of works whose composers share a fascination with the sound of bells: Messiaen’s Visions de l’Amen is …

(September 2022)—On September 23, Grammy-winning French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard releases Visions on the Pentatone label with pianist Tamara Stefanovich, the centerpiece of which is Olivier Messiaen’s rapturous two-piano Visions de …