An Evening with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 7:00 pm
Alice Tully Hall
2 hours 30 minutes, including 2 intermissions
Maurice Ravel is one of the most creative, detailed, and skilled composers in history. In the French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet we find talent in a similar vein: a musician of inexhaustible imagination, drive, and virtuosity. Bavouzet brings to CMS a great pianistic feat dedicated to Ravel’s complete published works for solo piano. This recital will go down in Lincoln Center history as a landmark artistic achievement.
Program
Maurice Ravel
(1875–1937)Sérénade grotesque for Piano
(c. 1893)Maurice Ravel
(1875–1937)Menuet antique for Piano
(1895)Maurice Ravel
(1875–1937)Pavane pour une infante défunte for Piano
(1899)Maurice Ravel
(1875–1937)Jeux d'eau for Piano
(1901)Maurice Ravel
(1875–1937)Sonatine for Piano
(1903-05)Maurice Ravel
(1875–1937)Oiseaux tristes: Très lent from Miroirs for Piano
(1904–05)Maurice Ravel
(1875–1937)Gaspard de la nuit for Piano
(1908)Maurice Ravel
(1875–1937)Minuet sur le nom d'Haydn for Piano
(1909)Maurice Ravel
(1875–1937)Valses nobles et sentimentales for Piano
(1911-12)Maurice Ravel
(1875–1937)À la manière de Chabrier for Piano
(1912-13)Maurice Ravel
(1875–1937)À la manière de Borodine for Piano
(1912-13)Maurice Ravel
(1875–1937)Prélude for Piano
(1913)Maurice Ravel
(1875–1937)Le tombeau de Couperin for Piano
(1914-17)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet enjoys a prolific recording and international concert career. He has performed with the Cleveland, NHK Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and BBC Symphony orchestras, among others, and has collaborated with renowned conductors including Gianandrea Noseda, Vasily Petrenko, Ludovic Morlot, Edward Gardner, and Louis Langrée. 2026–2027 season highlights include appearances with the Malmö and Gävle Symphony orchestras, the Malaysian Philharmonic and Singapore Symphony orchestras, and performances of all five Beethoven piano concertos with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, and the Cluj-Napoca Philharmonic. He also begins a two-year Haydn series at Wigmore Hall, and appears in recital at the Ravello and Bari Festivals, The Glasshouse International Centre, and Taipei National Concert Hall. Bavouzet has made over 60 recordings in the last 20 years, many of which have garnered multiple Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, Diapason d’Or, and Choc de l’Année awards. He is the International Artist in Piano Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music.
