Kaufman Music Center Presents Adam Tendler & Conor Hanick
$30
- Adam Tendler, piano
- Conor Hanick, piano
Two of the most celebrated pianists on the contemporary classical scene perform two piano works by seminal queer iconoclasts Steve Martland and Julius Eastman. The program juxtaposes Martland's thrilling and seldom-heard Drill with Eastman's epic masterpiece of musical activism, Gay Guerrilla.
A recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, Adam Tendler is "currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), a "remarkable and insightful musician" (Los Angeles Times), and a “relentlessly adventurous pianist” (Washington Post). Conor Hanick is regarded as one of his generation's most inquisitive interpreters of music new and old whose "technical refinement, color, crispness and wondrous variety of articulation benefit works by any master" (The New York Times).
Post-concert discussion with the artists moderated by Nico Muhly.
About Adam Tendler, piano
Adam Tendler is a recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists and "currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), a "remarkable and insightful musician" (LA Times), and "relentlessly adventurous pianist" (Washington Post) "joyfully rocking out at his keyboard" (New York Times).
An internationally recognized interpreter of living, modern, and classical composers, and a pioneer of DIY culture in concert music, at age 23 Tendler performed solo recitals in all 50 states as part of a grassroots tour called America 88x50, the subject of his acclaimed memoir, 88x50.
He has gone on to become one of classical and contemporary music's most recognized and celebrated artists, appearing recently as soloist with the LA Philharmonic and on the main-stages of Carnegie Hall and Brooklyn Academy of Music.
http://adamtendler.com/