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One of the most engaging live performers of his generation, the multi award-winning pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet regularly works with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Andrew Davis, Vladimir Jurowski, Vasili Petrenko, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Kiril Karabits, Neeme J\u00e4rvi, Andris Nelsons, Ivan Fischer, Ingo Metzmacher, and Krzysztof Urb\u00e1nski.<\/p>\n

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This season Bavouzet made his debuts with the San Francisco, Montreal, Dallas and New Jersey symphony orchestras (under Vasily Petrenko, Kent Nagano, Marc Albrecht and Susanna M\u00e4lkki respectively)and appeared with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Symphony (Vladimir Ashkenazy) and Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (James Gaffigan), as well as with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo. In July returning to Avery Fisher Hall he will open the Mostly Mozart Festival under the baton of Louis Langree and appears at the Proms with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Gianandrea Noseda. Further ahead, he will debut with the Pittsburgh and Seattle symphony orchestras, and return to Tivoli Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n

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An equally active recitalist, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet regularly performs at London’s Southbank Centre, Wigmore Hall and the Cheltenham Festival, La Roque d\u2019Anth\u00e9ron and Cit\u00e9 de la Musique, Brussels’ BOZAR and the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, where he recently received the annual Classical Elites Beijing Instrumental Recital of the Year award for his complete Beethoven sonatas cycle. Recitals in the 2012\/13 season include performances at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Sociedad Filarm\u00f3nica de Bilbao, Casa da M\u00fasica in Porto, the Moscow Conservatoire, and at the Schwetzinger Festspiele.<\/p>\n

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Renowned for his work on disc, Bavouzet has won Gramophone awards for his recording of concerto works by Debussy and Ravel with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Yan Pascal Tortelier, and for his fourth volume of Debussy’s Complete Works for Piano. His interpretations of Debussy and Ravel have also earned him two BBC Music Magazine awards and Diapason d’Or, whilst his first volume of Haydn’s Piano Sonatas received a Choc de l’ann\u00e9e and his Bart\u00f3k Piano Concertos disc (with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Gianandrea Noseda) was shortlisted for multiple international awards. Bavouzet records exclusively for Chandos and current recording projects include a Beethoven Piano Sonatas cycle. In 2012 Gramophone nominated Bavouzet as one of their Artists of the Year.<\/p>\n

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Named \u2018Artist of the Year\u2019 at the 2012 International Classical Music Awards, his recent highlights have included an appearance at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York with Louis Langr\u00e9e, a BBC Prom with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He returns to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra, as well as performances with the Orchestra National de Lyon, Tivoli Symphony Orchestra with Kirill Karabits, and in Japan with the NHK Symphony and Kyoto Symphony orchestras.<\/p>\n

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A former student of Pierre Sancan at the Paris Conservatoire, Bavouzet was invited by Sir George Solti to give his debut with the Orchestre de Paris in 1995 and is widely considered as the Maestro\u2019s last discovery. As well as his performing activities, Bavouzet has also made a transcription for two pianos of Debussy\u2019s Jeux, published by Durand with a foreword by Pierre Boulez. He won first prize in the International Beethoven Competition in Cologne as well as the Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York in 1986.<\/p>\n

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Bavouzet is Artistic Director of the Lofoten Piano Festival in Norway.<\/p>\n

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