Always engaging, the multi-award-winning French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performs an afternoon of Haydn, Beethoven and Debussy
Date/Time: Apr 2 2017, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Vancouver, Vancouver Playhouse | Event calendarCost: $20.00
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One of the most engaging live performers of his generation, the multi-award-winning French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet enjoys a prolific recording and international concert career and has worked closely with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Vladimir Jurowski, Danielle Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Neeme Järvi, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Bruno Mantovani.
He was named Artist of the Year at the 2012 International Classical Music Awards, and nominated by Deutsche Grammophon as one of their Artists of the Year in 2012.
Bavouzet records exclusively for Chandos and his disc featuring the complete Prokofiev Piano Concertos with the BBC Philharmonic and Gianandrea Noseda conducting won the Concerto category of the 2014 Gramophone Awards. Other recordings include Haydn’s Piano Concertos with Manchester Camerata and Gábor Takács-Nagy, Bartok’s Piano Concertos with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Gianandrea Noseda, and Stravinsky’s Complete Works for Piano. Bavouzet’s recordings have garnered two other Gramophone Awards, two BBC Music Magazine Awards, a Diapason d’Or and Choc de l’année. Ongoing recording projects include Beethoven and Haydn piano sonata cycles.
Programme
HAYDN Sonata in A-flat-major Hob. XVI: 46
BEETHOVEN Sonata in c minor Op. 10 No. 1
Sonata in F major Op. 10 No. 2
Intermission
RAVEL Miroirs
DEBUSSY L'isle joyeuse
A reception for all will follow the concert
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