The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) presents Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano with Sir George Benjamin, piano, a New York premiere, at the Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128, on November 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM. Tickets start at $45 and are available at https://www.92ny.org/event/pierre-laurent-aimard-with-sir-george-benjamin.

For his first-ever show at The 92nd Street Y, eminent pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard joins us with brilliant composer and longtime friend George Benjamin (Written on Skin) for the NY premiere of Benjamin’s new work for piano for four hands.

Aimard is acclaimed for curating and bringing to light little-known compositional works. The concert begins with a short piece by modernist Russian composer Nikolai Obukhov before the Sonata for Piano No. 1 by Aimard’s late friend and mentor, Pierre Boulez. The first half closes with Benjamin’s Shadowlines – Six Canonic Preludes, “the first major piano work of the 21st century,” wrote the Boston Globe. Aimard also has a long-standing history with the music of Ravel – a modernist in his own era – and opens the concert’s second half with the composer’s Le Tombeau de Couperin. Benjamin’s extraordinary new composition for himself and Aimard, DIVISIONS for Piano Four Hands, concludes the program.

Classical music at 92NY received major support from Marshall Weinberg. This program is part of Tisch Music.