Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has achieved acclaim for a variety of disparate repertories, but particularly for his complete cycles of music by Haydn, Debussy, Ravel, Bartók, and Prokofiev. He has performed and recorded with a wide array of ensembles and conductors throughout the world and has achieved success critically.
Bavouzet was born in Lannion, France, on October 17, 1962. He studied music at the Paris Conservatory with Pierre Sancan. In 1986, Bavouzet won the Beethoven International Competition in Cologne. Three years later, he was given the Steven de Groote Memorial Award for best chamber music performance at the Van Cliburn Competition. While Bavouzet enjoyed reasonable success in the wake of these triumphs, including his appearance on a 1993 Accord release of works by Stockhausen, his breakthrough came in 1995 when he debuted with the Orchestre de Paris at the invitation of Georg Solti. In a 1998 concert with the Orchestre de Paris, Bavouzet collaborated with Pierre Boulez, a conductor with whom he would make many subsequent appearances, both in France and abroad. Bavouzet has concertized throughout Europe, the U.K., the U.S., and Asia and has appeared with many leading conductors, including Gergiev, Ashkenazy, Boulez, and Gianandrea Noseda.
Bavouzet has found continued success as his career has progressed, not least because of his considerable activity in the recording studio. He recorded the complete piano works of Ravel to acclaim for MDG in 2003. For his initial project with Chandos, he issued the complete piano works of Debussy in 2006, with critics broadly approving of each release. In 2008, he began recording the complete piano sonatas by Beethoven, the first of which was released in 2012. Bavouzet distinguished himself further when in 2009, he played the challenging five Prokofiev concertos over two concerts with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Antoni Wit. That year, Bavouzet premiered a work dedicated to him, the Bruno Mantovani piano concerto The Book of Jeb, at the Piano aux Jacobins International Festival in Toulouse. Bavouzet's repertory extends to individual works by Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and Pierné. The following year, he issued the first volume in a complete cycle of Haydn's sonatas. Alongside the Haydn cycle, Bavouzet began a survey of Mozart concertos in 2016, issuing the fifth volume in 2020. In 2022, he released the tenth volume of his Haydn cycle.
Bavouzet's recordings have won awards from the Grammophon and BBC Music magazines, as well as the Diapason d'Or and the Choc de l’année.
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Plays Haydn Piano Concertos
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Manchester Camerata
Concertos - Released by Chandos on 1 Sep 2014
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Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Sep 2012
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Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 7
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Jul 2018
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Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 8
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Jul 2019
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Debussy: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 3
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 May 2008
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Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Nov 2017
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Ravel: Complete Piano Works
Miscellaneous - Released by Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG) on 1 Sep 2003
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Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano, Capriccio, Movements & Petrushka
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra
Concertos - Released by Chandos on 27 Jan 2015
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Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Mar 2010
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Debussy: String Quartet and Piano Trio
Brodsky Quartet, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Sioned Williams, Chris Laurence
Quartets - Released by Chandos on 1 Apr 2012
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Plays Schumann
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Feb 2019
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Pierné: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
Juanjo Mena, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 1 Sep 2015
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Debussy: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 1
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 May 2007
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Debussy, Ravel & Massenet
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Concertos - Released by Chandos on 1 Nov 2010
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Pierné : Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Juanjo Mena
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Sep 2015
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Nov 2016
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Ives: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Andrew Davis
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Mar 2017
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Stockhausen: Zyklus - Refrain - Kontakte
Florent Jodelet, Gérard Frémy, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Classical - Released by Universal Music Division Decca Records France on 16 Nov 1993
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Debussy, Stravinsky & Bartók: Transcriptions for 2 Pianists
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Jun 2015
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Pierne: Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 12 / Ramuntcho Suites Nos. 1 and 2
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena, Juan Jose Mena
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Jan 2011
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Debussy: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 4
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Nov 2008
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