Duel d’improvisation

Sun, Dec 13, 2026 at 4pm

About this event

En garde! Improvisation duels are an age-old musical tradition: Handel versus Scarlatti, Mozart versus Clementi… Pianist Jean-François Zygel invites his brilliant former pupil Jean-Baptiste Doulcet to join him in a modern-day musical joust. Keyboard against keyboard, two virtuosos armed with boundless imagination, they face off in a one-on-one contest. Who will emerge victorious – the master or the pupil?

The artists: Jean-Baptiste Doulcet (piano); Jean-François Zygel (piano)

Summary

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A piano improvisation duel recital in which two virtuoso pianists, Jean-François Zygel and his former pupil Jean-Baptiste Doulcet, face off in a one-on-one musical contest on two keyboards, reviving the old tradition of composer-versus-composer jousts. The performance is staged as a recital lasting about 120 minutes, part of the Pioneers series.