Here & Now Winter Festival: Blair McMillen & Friends – 'The Piano Extended: Deconstructing Henry Cowell'
$35
- Nicole Brancato, piano
- Geoffrey Burleson, piano
- Mikael Darmanie, piano
- Kathleen Supové, piano
- Adam Tendler, piano
- Blair McMillen, piano
Six of New York's busiest contemporary-music pianists compose brand-new works inspired by the groundbreaking piano music of composer/inventor Henry Cowell. With pianists Nicole Brancato, Geoffrey Burleson, Mikael Darmanie, Kathy Supove, Adam Tendler, and Blair McMillen.
Featuring six world premieres, original piano music by Henry Cowell, and electronic interludes by Nicole Brancato.
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 Nicole Brancato, piano
About Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Geoffrey Burleson has performed to wide acclaim throughout Europe and North America, and is equally active as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician, and jazz performer. The New York Times has hailed his solo performances as “vibrant” and “compelling,” and has praised his “command, projection of rhapsodic qualities without loss of rhythmic vigor, and appropriate sense of spontaneity and fetching colors.” The Boston Globe refers to Mr. Burleson as a “remarkable pianist” and “a first-class instrumental presence” whose performances are “outright thrilling.”
https://geoffreyburleson.com/About Kathleen Supové, piano
Kathleen Supové is an American pianist specializing in modern classical music. She has premiered the works of hundreds of composers on her Exploding Piano series. Her recitals involve recitation, costume, theatrical elements such as lighting, and sets. Kathleen's intention is to augment and extend the piano recital, and to borrow from contemporary theater, film. and dance to create a new context for modern classical music. She also performs works that extend the sonic world of the piano recital, by. using electronics both live and pre-recorded, preparation of the piano, robotics, the Mugic device, and virtual reality. As Anthony Tommasini said in The New York Times: "What Ms. Supové is really exploding is the. piano recital as we have known it, a mission more radical and arguably more needed." She has appeared with The Lincoln Center Festival, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Bang On a Can Marathon, Bang On A Can Long Play, Either/Or, Composers Concordance, Composers' Collaborative, Inc., and at many other venues, ranging from concert halls such as Carnegie to theatrical spaces such as The Kitchen to clubs such as The Knitting Factory and The Cutting Room. Frequent collaborators are violinist Jennifer Choi, composer/sound artist Guy Barash, flutist Tessa. Brinckman. She is also the keyboard player for Nick Didkovsky's band Dr. Nerve. She has collaborated with musicians from other realms such as. techno artist Jeff Mills and American roots poet-songwriter Michelle Shocked. In addition to being a performing pianist, Supové has also curated music series' for the Flea Theater and The Center For Fiction. As a composer, she has received two NYSCA Grants and commissions from Bargemusic, The Illustrated Pianist project, New Music New College, the. Henry Cowell celebration project, and several others.
http://www.supove.com/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/