Jean Efflam Bavouzet (France)

Award-winning pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet enjoys a prolific recording and international con-cert career. He regularly works with The Cleveland, San Francisco Symphony, BBC Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras, NHK Symphony Orchestra, and collaborates with many renowned conductors including Vladimir Jurowski, Gianandrea Noseda, François-Xavier Roth, Vasily Petrenko, Ludovic Morlot, Edward Gardner, Louis Langrée, and Sir Andrew Davis.

Engagements during the 2023/24 season include Les Siècles under Francois Xavier-Roth, performing both Ravel concerti with Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska, National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin, as well as Kyoto Sym-phony Orchestra under Junichi Hirokami with Bartók’s fiendish Piano Concerto No.2. He also appears with Manchester Camerata at the Enescu Festival in Romania with Gábor Takacs-Nagy and will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3 with Karol Szymanowski Filharmo-nia in Kraków, under the baton of Antoni Wit.

In recital, Bavouzet continues his three-year residency at Wigmore Hall, titled ‘Autour de De-bussy’, which includes solo recitals and chamber appearances with Steven Isserlis, Quatuor Danel and Orsino Ensemble among others. His solo recital at Wigmore Hall in February shall consist of a unique pairing of Debussy, Liszt and Massenet, a programme which he shall also be taking to Sage Gateshead, SJE Oxford and Hamamatsu in Japan. Other recitals include a Rachmaninov-centred two-piano performance with the Chamber Music Society at New York’s Lincoln Centre.

Bavouzet has worked closely with Sir Georg Solti, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Zoltan Kocsis, György Kurtág, Maurice Ohana, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Bruno Mantovani and Jörg Widmann and is also a champion of lesser-known French music, notably that of Gabriel Pierné and Albéric Magnard. He is the International Chair in Piano at the Royal Northern College of Music and an Advisory Board member of the Pianofest in the Hamptons. In 2012 he was ICMA Artist of the Year and in 2008 he was awarded Beijing’s first ever Elite Prize for his Beethoven complete sonata series.