Award-winning pianist and composer Hüseyin Sermet is an artist at the peak of his powers; his extensive repertoire, refined over the course of a distinguished fifty-year career, reflects his wide ranging musical interests and pianistic versatility. He has performed and recorded with some of the world’s finest musicians, including Gautier Capuçon, Renaud Capuçon, Maria João Pires, Mstislav Rostropovich, Jonathan Nott, Lorin Maazel and Michel Plasson; and has worked with orchestras such as Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National De Lyon, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra. His compositions include Réminiscence, premiered at the Empéri Festival in 1997 and broadcast live by France Musique, Dream and Nightmare (2004) commissioned by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and Sculptures (2006) commissioned by İş Bank. Hüseyin Sermet has made a number of recordings for Naïve, Harmonia Mundi and Erato. Award-winning discs include his first volume of Ravel solo piano works, three discs devoted to Alkan (all winning a Diapason d’Or), a traversal of Schubert’s works for four hands with Maria João Pires, and the Liszt Sonata and late works (both Choc du Monde de la Musique). Pupil of Thierry de Brunhoff, Olivier Messiaen, and Nadia Boulanger; he won prizes at the Maurice Ravel, Queen Elizabeth and Geza Anda piano competitions.