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Pierre-Laurent Aimard

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This Christmas Season, a meditation on Jesus' childhood in 20 movements. Here is the farewell to Pierre-Laurent Aimard who ends his 2020 residency at Casa da Música. The acclaimed pianist is a key figure in the music of our time - with only 16 years old, foreshadowing a promising career, he won the First Prize in the Messiaen Competition, the first of many awards. And it is precisely Messiaen that Aimard revisits again in this recital filled with deep religiosity, in what is one of the most iconic pieces for solo piano by the French composer. The work was written for Yvonne Loriod, student (and future wife) of Messiaen, who would later become teach Pierre-Laurent Aimard at the Paris Conservatory.