The Grammy Award-winning French pianist has been recognised for a life devoted to the service of music.

French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard has been awarded the 2017 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. The Grammy Award-winning pianist – whose performance of Olivier Messiaen’s Vingt Regards in Sydney last March got five stars from Limelight editor Clive Paget – will receive his award, which is endowed with 250,000 Euros, at a prize ceremony on June 2 at the Prinzregententheater in Munich. The Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, sometimes referred to as the Nobel Prize of music, is given in recognition of a life devoted to the service of music.

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“In Aimard, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation honors a pianist of light and color who brings clarity and life to everything he plays,” the Foundation said in their press release. “His unusual path from the music of the present to that of the past, his boundless joy of discovery, and the meticulousness with which he devotes himself to composers ranging from Bach to George Benjamin make him one of the exceptional musicians of our time.”

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