Kathleen Supové, piano: Confinement/Escape

Exploding Pianist Kathleen Supové confronts confinement, using some of her own favorite objects as three-dimensional graphic scores, "performing" them as well as utilizing them. 

In the program's second half, she will ask the audience to loan or give her objects of their own, so she might "play" them, too. What objects symbolize (or help you escape) confinement?

Confinement/Escape is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

About Kathleen Supové

In May 2012, Kathleen Supové received the John Cage Award from ASCAP for “the artistry and passion with which she performs, commissions, records, and champions the music of our time.” Kathleen Supové is one of America’s most acclaimed and versatile new music pianists, continually redefining the pianist/keyboardist/performance artist in today’s world. Ms. Supové presents solo concerts under the moniker THE EXPLODING PIANO. A striking presence onstage, she has performed with computers, boxing gloves, robots, and laptop orchestra.

Recent projects include two solo CDs: "The Debussy Effect," on New Focus Recordings (La Barbara-Clark-Marks-Felsenfeld-Woolf-Gosfield-Cooper), the result of a multi-composer commissioning project; and "Eye to Ivory" (Childs-Woolf-Barash-Didkovsky-Naphtali), with vocalizing, extended techniques, Yamaha Disklavier, and noise-based effects.