Aimard
Aimard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Pierre-Laurent Aimard (born 1957), French pianist * Gustave Aimard, (1818–1883), French author {{Short pages monitor ...
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (born 9 September 1957) is a French pianist. Biography Aimard was born in Lyon, where he entered the conservatory. Later he studied with Yvonne Loriod and with Maria Curcio. In 1973, he was awarded the chamber music prize of the Paris Conservatoire. In the same year, he won the first prize at the international Olivier Messiaen Competition. In 1977, at the invitation of Pierre Boulez, he became a founding member of the Ensemble InterContemporain. He made his American debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of twenty, performing the piano solo part in Olivier Messiaen's ''Turangalîla-Symphonie''. Aimard is particularly committed to contemporary music. He was the soloist in several premieres of works such as ''Répons'' by Pierre Boulez, '' Klavierstück XIV'' by Karlheinz Stockhausen, and the eleventh and thirteenth piano études of György Ligeti. One of his most notable recordings is that of the first two books of Ligeti's piano études. ...
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