Tableaux Musical - Pierre-Laurent Boucharlat (Piano) + Visit of Villa Bernasconi

PROGRAM

THE ARTISTS

In September 2000, Pierre-Laurent Boucharlat recorded his performance of Chopin’s 24 studies. His CD, published in the French magazine Piano le Magazine, brought him on the international scene in a career that has given him the opportunity of perform across Europe, Asia and Northern America.
Boucharlat is highly appreciated by the public for his sensitivity and the emotions that his playing arouses: he played twice in concert the complete set of the famous Beethoven 32 sonatas (2023 and 2024); he is regularly invited in France and abroad for concerts, radio or television broadcasts, or masterclasses highlighting the masterpieces of the Viennese composer. Four CDs featuring to the most well-known of them are already available.
Also recognized as one of French music’s specialists, his interpretations have been praised by music critics who emphasizes the elegance of his piano playing, with a very colorful palette of sounds, serving the French repertory of the 20th century (Debussy, Fauré, Ravel, Poulenc…).
He is a shought-after chamber musician, who has played alongside many international artist in duos or trios.
Since his first concert with orchestra at the age of thirteen, Pierre-Laurent Boucharlat has been invited by numerous orchestras to play about twenty different concertos in France and abroad. He is also an artist that contemporary composers appreciate, and two works are dedicated to him: Lignes d’Ombre, a piece for piano solo by the French composer Gérard Gastenel; Mikado Concerto, for piano and orchestra by the Spanish composer Juan-Francisco Tortosa-Esteve.
Pierre-Laurent Boucharlat is regularly invited to perform on various media. He has played live in the program L’été des festivals on France Musique. He also recorded for that same station The Carnival of the Animals side to Anne Roumanoff, with texts by Eric-Emmanuel Schmid (published by Albin Michel in 2014).
Many of his concerts have been covered by French television (France 2, France 3, TLM) as well as abroad (Russian, Catalan, Italian, Bulgarian, Polish, Slovenian, Macedonian, Kosovar…).
As soon as he obtained his prize at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon in 1992, Pierre-Laurent Boucharlat was unanimously admitted to the postgraduate course at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris. He then studied with Monique Deschaussées, a disciple of Alfred Cortot and Edwin Fischer. He is the recipient of two international prizes: Darius Milhaud 1997 and Spedidam 1999.