Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Yamada, Thibaudet, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is the soloist in George Gershwin’s blues-inflected Piano Concerto in F, and conductor Kazuki Yamada makes his Symphony Hall debut with two of Ottorino Respighi’s colorful homages to Rome.

Joe Hisaishi leans on an open piano and smiles.

Hisaishi’s BSO Debut at Tanglewood!

Iconic Japanese composer and conductor Joe Hisaishi leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in his own music as well as Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, with soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

Thibaudet stands against the blue California sky in a black and gold suit. He wears a large silver pendant and stares at the camera powerfully.

Thibaudet and Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto, at Tanglewood

In an encore broadcast, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Dima Slobodeniouk in the Berkshires to perform Liszt on a program that also features two works by Sibelius and William Grant Still's "Threnody."

Sir Antonio Pappano wears a dark suit and a burgundy scarf. He balances his baton between his hands, perching it horizontally between his two pointer fingers. He stares down the camera with his brown eyes, not smiling. Jean-Yves Thibaudet wears a dark suit and stands in front of an open grand piano. He looks at the camera with his light blue eyes and smiles softly.

Pappano, Thibaudet, and the BSO

In an encore broadcast, Jean-Yves Thibaudet brings dazzling elegance to Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and Antonio Pappano conducts two works that ask deep questions of humanity: Richard Strauss’s “Also sprach Zarathustra” and Hannah Kendall’s “O flower of fire.”

Jean Yves Thibaudet wears a black dress shirt and stands in a white spotlight. He has blondish gray hair and blue eyes, and he smiles at the camera softly.

Thibaudet and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood

In an encore broadcast, Jean-Yves Thibaudet is the soloist in Khachaturian’s vibrant, colorful Piano Concerto, part of a program that also includes Tania León's Pulitzer prize-winning "Stride" and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, the “Pathétique.”

Saint-Saëns and Gershwin with Thibaudet and the BSO, at Tanglewood

In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Andris Nelson leads the BSO in Carlos Simon's "Four Black American Dances" and piano concertos by Gershwin and Saint-Saëns with soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

The Voyages of Saint-Saëns, with Thibaudet, Shani, and the BSO

In an encore broadcast, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the Boston Symphony for Saint-Saëns’s virtuosic "Egyptian" Concerto, and Israeli conductor Lahav Shani leads the BSO in his Symphony Hall debut with Prokofiev’s "Classical" Symphony and Rachmaninoff’s dazzling "Symphonic Dances."

Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Michael Feinstein share a piano bench, facing the other and smiling.

Thibaudet and Feinstein in “Two Pianos: Who Could Ask for Anything More?”

In a celebration of music by George Gershwin, Michael Feinstein and Jean-Yves Thibaudet come together with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops at Tanglewood.

a collage of six musicians featured during the 2023 Tanglewood season, including conductors Xian Zhang, Andris Nelsons, Keith Lockhart, Susanna Mälkki, and Thomas Wilkins, and violinist Hilary Hahn

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Tanglewood 2023, with the BSO, the Boston Pops, and More

World-class conductors and guest artists bring dynamic performances to the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in the green hills of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts.

Thibaudet in Liszt's Pianistic Trapeze Act

French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is the soloist in Liszt's acrobatic Piano Concerto No. 2, plus Andris Nelsons conducts an American premiere by Augusta Read Thomas and Beethoven's Symphony No. 4.