Here & Now Series: "Riding On Air" with Blair McMillen & Friends

• Blair McMillen, piano
• Nicole Brancato, piano
• Conor McMillen, violin

Jonathan Newman — JRB Variations (NYC premiere, written for Blair McMillen)
Nicole Brancato — Selected works
Fred Hersch — Selected works
Thelonius Monk — Selected works
Mary Lou Williams — Selected works
Regina Carter — Gone in a Phrase of Air

Program includes:

- JRB Variations by Jonathan Newman (NYC premiere, written for Blair McMillen)

- A piano four-hands world premiere by composer/pianist Nicole Brancato. Using field recordings, improvisation, and extended techniques, Brancato pays tribute to Henry Cowell's groundbreaking 1923 piano work The Aeolian Harp

- Jazz transcriptions and solos, by Fred Hersch, Thelonius Monk, Mary Lou Williams, and Regina Carter's Gone in a Phrase of Air (with violinist Conor McMillen)

About Bargemusic

Moored in Brooklyn just under the Brooklyn Bridge, Bargemusic presents great music year-round. Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge into a “wonderfully intimate wood-paneled room with thrilling views of lower Manhattan and excellent acoustics.” Experience why critics call Bargemusic “the perfect chamber-music hall” and why artists say it is “unlike any other place in the world to perform.”

https://www.bargemusic.org/

About Blair McMillen, piano

http://www.pianoblair.com/

About Nicole Brancato, piano

https://www.nicolebrancato.com/