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May 20, 2013
Pierre-Laurent Aimard Presents Recital at Klavier-Festival Ruhr Dedicated to Elliott Carter

On May 21, Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs a recital at Dusseldorf's Museum Kunst Palast as part of the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, the annual summer piano festival. Dedicated to the late Elliott Carter, the program includes the composer's Tri-Tribute, written for the family of conductor James Levine and premiered at Carter's 100th birthday celebration in 2008. Also included are Carter's 90 + and Two Thoughts About Piano. Rounding out the program are Schumann's Bunte Blätter, ("Colorful Leaves"), Op. 99, and Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13.

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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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