Quatre Mains
| 1. | Introduction | 00:00:50 |
| 2. | Debussy: En blanc et noir for Two Pianos | 00:17:59 |
| 3. | The Rite of Spring for Piano, Four Hands | 00:39:40 |
PROGRAM
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Claude Debussy (1862–1918) |
En blanc et noir for Two Pianos (1915) Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano I; Alessio Bax, Piano II |
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Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) |
The Rite of Spring for Piano, Four Hands (1913) Juho Pohjonen, Piano; Gloria Chien, Piano |
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Alessio Bax
Gloria Chien
Juho Pohjonen
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.
Alessio Bax won first prize at both the Leeds and Hamamatsu International Piano Competitions, and has appeared with nearly 200 orchestras, including the New York, London, and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras; the Boston, Baltimore, Dallas, Cincinnati, Seattle, Sydney, BBC Scottish, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras; the Cleveland and Minnesota Orchestras; and the Tokyo and NHK Symphonies in Japan. He is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, and the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists. At age 14, Bax graduated with top honors from the conservatory of Bari, Italy. He is a former member of CMS’s Bowers Program and is on the faculty at New England Conservatory. For ten years, Bax has been Artistic Director of the Incontri in Terra di Siena Festival, and is the Artistic Director of the London Festival of Chamber Music at Smith Square Hall in London. He also serves as Co-Artistic Director of the Joaquín Achúcarro Foundation for emerging pianists.
Pianist Gloria Chien has a diverse musical life as a performer, concert presenter, and educator. She made her orchestral debut at age 16 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard. In 2009 she launched String Theory, a chamber music series in Chattanooga, and the following year was appointed Director of the Chamber Music Institute at Music@Menlo. In 2017, she joined her husband, violinist Soovin Kim, as Co-Artistic Director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont. The duo became Artistic Directors at Chamber Music Northwest in 2020, and were named the recipients of the 2021 Award for Extraordinary Service to Chamber Music from CMS. Ms. Chien received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from New England Conservatory, where she was named the Advisor for the prestigious Institute for Concert Artists in 2024. She is an artist-in-residence at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee; a Steinway Artist; and an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program.
Pianist Juho Pohjonen is in demand internationally as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber performer. An ardent exponent of Scandinavian music, he has a growing discography offering music by Finnish compatriots such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kaija Saariaho, and Jean Sibelius. Recent engagements include the Taiwan, BBC, and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras; the Cleveland and Minnesota orchestras; and the symphonies of San Francisco, Atlanta, New Jersey, and Colorado. Pohjonen is an alum of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program and enjoys an ongoing relationship with the organization. Pohjonen earned a master’s degree from Meri Louhos and Hui-Ying Liu-Tawaststjerna at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He was selected by Sir András Schiff as the winner of the 2009 Klavier Festival Ruhr Scholarship. In 2019, Pohjonen launched MyPianist, an AI-based app that provides interactive piano accompaniment.