Award-winning pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet enjoys a prolific recording and international concert caree. He has performed with The Cleveland, NHK Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, BBC Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras to name a few, and has collaborated with many renowned conductors including Vladimir Jurowski, Gianandrea Noseda, Vasily Petrenko, Ludovic Morlot, Edward Gardner and Louis Langrée.
Bavouzet’s recital schedule takes him across four continents in the 2025/26 season, with performances at major venues such as Sydney’s City Recital Hall, Kyoto Concert Hall, Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, Seoul’s Kumho Arts Center, Stockholm’s Queen Silvia Concert Hall, the Glasshouse International Centre, Wiener Konzerthaus and Lincoln Center New York.
In recent seasons, Bavouzet has appeared with Philharmonia Orchestra (on an eight-concert tour of China, under Lan Shui), Philadelphia Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Shanghai, São Paulo, Adelaide, Sydney, Tokyo Metropolitan and BBC Symphony Orchestras, play-directed a three-concerto programme with Seattle Symphony and toured the Baltics with Manchester Camerata.
Bavouzet’s recordings have garnered multiple Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, Diapason d’Or and Choc de l’Année awards. Recording exclusively on the Chandos label, his most recent release, Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano. Other notable recordings include the complete Mozart Piano Concertos with the Manchester Camerata under Gábor Takács-Nagy; and Prokofiev’s complete Piano Concertos with the BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda, the latter winning in the Concerto category at the 2014 Gramophone Awards.
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. In 2012 he was ICMA Artist of the Year, and in 2008 was awarded Beijing’s first ever Elite Prize for his Beethoven complete sonata series.
He is the International Visiting Artist in Keyboard Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music.
