Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano – Manuel Hernandez Silva, conductor – Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona y Nacional de Cataluña. Recorded March 6, 2016 – Radio Nacional España.
Over to Barcelona this week for a concert featuring Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona y Nacional de Cataluña, conducted by Manuel Hernandez Silva and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano solo in music of Ravel and Rachmaninov. It was broadcast and recorded live on March 6, 2016 by Radio Nacional España.
Nothing new or out-of-the-way this week. Ravel in the first half – Rhapsody Espagnol and the Piano concerto in G with Jean-Afflam Bavouzet. Rachmaninov in the second half: Symphonic Dances.
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet enjoys a prolific recording and international concert career. He regularly works with orchestras such as The Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and NHK Symphony orchestras, and collaborates with conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Jurowski, Gianandrea Noseda, François- Xavier Roth, Nicholas Collon, Gábor Takács-Nagy and Sir Andrew Davis amongst others.
Highlights during the 2018/19 season include the Lincoln Center in New York with the London Philharmonic under Edward Gardner, Orchestre national de Lyon, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, a Debussy focus with the Antwerp Symphony, his continuing collaboration with Manchester Camerata including an extensive tour of China as well as performances with Sapporo Symphony, Seoul and Taiwan philharmonic orchestras. Following his highly successful extended Debussy recital at the Barbican’s Milton Court and the 2018 Perth International Arts Festival, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet will present this programme at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam. Other recitals include a return to the Louvre, Wigmore Hall – both in solo recital and in collaboration with Kristóf Baráti and István Várdai, as well as a number of recitals in the U.K., Germany and Belgium. He will also return to the Verbier Festival in 2019.
Manuel Hernández-Silva earned his degree from Vienna’s Superior Conservatory (Konservatorium der Stadt Wien) with honors, under Professors Reinhard Schwarz and Georg Mark. In his senior year he won the Forum Jünger Künstler Conducting Competition, convened by the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, which he conducted in the Austrian capital’s Konzerthaus.
He has conducted in several great international festivals, and he is a frequent guest of Spanish and foreign orchestras. He has been principal conductor of the Córdoba Orchestra, Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra, Navarra Symphony Orchestra, and principal guest conductor of the Simón Bolívar Orchestra of Caracas, with which he worked intensively for over five years.
Enjoy the concert:
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