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Piano

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Lankhoorn performs Moore’s Dances and Canons

Perceiving and thinking about the way things change, we can sometimes pierce through to the elementa...
Author
Gavin Gamboa
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Practice, practice, practice: Philip Glass’s Complete Piano Etudes at BAM

From Bach’s Klavier Übung to Ligeti’s 18 Etudes, etudes are designed to both discipline and dazzle.
Author
Elias Blumm
Tristan Perich/Vicky Chow: Surface Image

Vicky Chow/Tristan Perich: Surface Image

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is a $140 million construc...
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Gavin Gamboa
Sally Whitwell

5 Questions to Sally Whitwell (pianist, composer)

20 years in the making, Philip Glass's complete Piano Etudes will be performed at BAM on December 5...
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Elias Blumm
Nostalgic Synchronic

Dan Trueman’s “Nostalgic Synchronic” étude #1: Video Premiere

Throughout the last decade, I have been working with Dan Trueman as a member of So Percussion. A rel...
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Adam Sliwinski
Xenia Pestova - Shadow Piano on Innova

Xenia Pestova’s Shadow Piano on Innova Recordings

Xenia Pestova is a pianist who actively promotes and performs new works of music. Additionally, she...
Author
Nick Arner
Jonathan Biss - Photo by Benjamin Ealovega

5 questions to Jonathan Biss (pianist, educator)

Tomorrow, Friday, January 17, Jonathan Biss “one of the most thoughtful and technically accomplished...
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Thomas Deneuville
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Taxonomic Affinities: Johnson’s Chord Catalogue and Vriezen’s Within Fourths/Within Fifths

In the world of composed music, Tom Johnson's work verges on concept art. And within the realm of co...
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Kurt Gottschalk
Three Solo Pieces

Lubomyr Melnyk: Three Solo Pieces on Unseen Worlds

The music of Lubomyr Melnyk (b. 1948) has enjoyed a resurgence of late. In 2007, the fantastic label...
Author
Andrew Lee
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5 Questions to Mabel Kwan (pianist)

Mabel Kwan is a Chicago-based pianist who specializes in contemporary music.  She is a frequent musi...
Author
Andrew Tham
Bruce Brubaker

Bruce Brubaker at the University of Denver

This is a review that I hadn't intended to write. I've had the pleasure of hearing Bruce Brubaker pe...
Author
Andrew Lee
Jenny Q Chai

5 Questions to Jenny Q Chai (pianist)

Jenny Q Chai is a pianist currently based in New York, where she is receiving her Doctor of Musical...
Author
Andrew Tham

Erdem Helvacioğlu, Eleven Short Stories

Let's play a word association game. If I say, "prepared piano," many of you might think "John Cage."...
Author
Andrew Lee
David Leisner - Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Guitar Plus: David Leisner and Jon Klibonoff at Symphony Space

Classical guitar is a pain in the ass. The way you're meant to sit: weird/humiliating. The disparity...
Author
Elias Blumm
Adrian Knight - Self-portrait

Time of My Life by Adrian Knight

Twitter has surprised me. I initially was one of the skeptics, assuming that the 140 character limit...
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Andrew Lee
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Returnings: Eve Egoyan performs the last piano works of Ann Southam

Ann Southam, who passed away at the age of 73 in 2010, was one of Canada’s foremost composers. Befor...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
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American Mavericks: Chamber music by Partch, Cowell, Riley and Subotnick

The third concert in the San Francisco Symphony’s American Marvericks series (fourth if the new Harr...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
Composer Ann Southam

Handwritten vs. digitally engraved scores, an opinion post by R. Andrew Lee

Earlier this week, a tweet by R. Andrew Lee (a wonderful New Music pianist that you should really di...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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Hanging out with Timothy Andres | Hang #3

For this Hang #3, Timothy Andres welcomed us in his Brooklyn apartment. We talked about his Nonesuch...
Author
Thomas Deneuville

DETOUR goes solo at The Cell

This last Friday, DETOUR went solo at the Cell. Founded in 2009 by composers Angélica Negrón, Brian...
Author
Thomas Deneuville

French stars of Young Concert Artists (YCA) at Florence Gould Hall

This Wednesday, the French Institute Alliance Francause (FIAF) presented a concert featuring French...
Author
Thomas Deneuville

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