Valère Burnon
“Valère Burnon does not shy away from rubato, nor from tenderness, nor from the infinite expansion of phrases, yet everything here is perfectly controlled, at once distanced and deeply invested.” — MUSIQ’3
At 27, the Belgian pianist Valère Burnon saw his career take off when he won Third Prize at the 2025 Queen Elisabeth Competition, along with the Audience Prizes from Musiq’3 and VRT. After a Debussy Prelude establishing the theme of night, he performs two excerpts from Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus, Olivier Messiaen’s vast, richly colored fresco, continues his journey with Claude Ledoux’s The Caressing Sounds of Evening and Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, one of the greatest piano masterpieces of the 20th century, before highlighting the formal perfection of Schubert’s most expansive sonata.
Programme
DEBUSSY, The Terrace of Moonlit Audiences
MESSIAEN, Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus, excerpts
LEDOUX, The Caressing Sounds of Evening…
RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit
SCHUBERT, Piano Sonata in A major D. 959
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