Florent Boffard
Photo: Jean Baptiste Millot
Florent Boffard entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of 12, where he studied under Yvonne Loriod. He has performed at leading festivals (Salzburg, Berlin, Bath, Aldeburgh, La Roque d’Anthéron etc.) under the baton of Pierre Boulez, Simon Rattle, Leon Fleisher and Peter Eötvös. He has also played with the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. As a soloist with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, 1988–1999, he worked with the foremost composers of our time and premièred pieces by Boulez, Donatoni, Ligeti and others.
He stages workshops and concert presentations in which he seeks to enhance the public's understanding of the contemporary repertoire. He also wrote and presented the film Schoenberg, le malentendu to accompany his highly-praised recording of Schoenberg’s piano works. His other recordings include works by Fauré, Debussy, Bartók , Boulez and Berio. In 2001, the Forberg-Schneider Foundation (Munich) awarded Florent Boffard its Belmont Prize for his commitment to contemporary music. He has taught at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon and at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart. Since 2016, he has taught piano at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris.