After first studying at the Nancy Conservatoire, with the help of Messiaen Béroff entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied with Yvonne Loriod and Pierre Sancan, obtaining a premier prix in 1966. The following year he won the Olivier Messiaen Competition and made his debut in Paris. Béroff was already gaining a reputation for the performance of twentieth-century works, particularly of Messiaen, although he began to excel in performances of Debussy, Bartók, Stravinsky and Prokofiev. He has played chamber music with Augustin Dumay and Pierre Amoyal, and worked with conductors including Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Klaus Tennstedt and Giuseppe Sinopoli. Under Pierre Boulez, Béroff played Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2...