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May 10, 2013
Pierre-Laurent Aimard Joins Q2 Music's Hammered!

The week of May 13, Pierre-Laurent Aimard will be featured on "Hammered!" on Q2, New York public radio's online station devoted to the music of living composers. Throughout the week, Aimard performs and discusses music by György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Charles Ives, African Pygmies, Steve Reich, and more. Interspersed are recordings of Aimard in Ligeti's Piano Etudes and Piano Concerto, and excerpts from Messiaen's Quatre études de rythme, Preludes, Vingt Regards and Catalog d'oiseaux, as well as recollections of György Ligeti and Olivier Messiaen (with Messiaen's wife Yvonne Loriod, Aimard's teacher.) Hammered! airs Monday, May 13 through Friday, May 17 at 10am EDT. Find more information and listen here.

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April 24, 2013
Pierre-Laurent Aimard Performs Lachenmann Concerto with Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

On April 26, Aimard performs German composer Helmut Lachenmann's immense piano concerto Ausklang at Munich's Herkulessaal der Residenz with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under conductor Jonathan Nott. The performance will be broadcast live over BR-KLASSIK, the classical music station of the Bayerischer Rundfunk. More information and a video of Aimard performing the concerto in rehearsal can be found here.

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March 18, 2013
Pierre-Laurent Aimard gives US premiere of Murail piano concerto with New York Philharmonic

April 11 to 13, Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs the US premiere of French composer Tristan Murail’s piano concerto Le Désenchantement du monde alongside the New York Philharmonic conducted by David Robertson at Lincoln Center. Aimard gave the world premiere of Murail’s concerto last May in Munich with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under George Benjamin. The New York Philharmonic program also features Aimard as soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23.

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