Adam Tendler, Piano: Inheritances
$20-$60 sliding scale
Missy Mazzoli — Forgiveness Machine
Scott Wollschleger — Outsider Song
Angélica Negrón — You Were My Age
John Glover — In The City of Shy Hunters
Mary Prescott — What It Becomes
Timo Andres — An Open Book
Ted Hearne — Inheritance
inti figgis-vizueta — hushing
Sarah Kirkland Snider — the plum tree I planted still there
Christopher Cerrone — Area of Refuge
Marcos Balter — False Memories
Pamela Z — Thank You So Much
Darian Donovan Thomas — We don’t need to tend this garden. They’re wildflowers.
Nico Muhly — Eiris, Sones
Devonté Hynes — Morning Piece
The recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists and the Yvar Mikhashoff Prize, pianist Adam Tendler is one of classical music's most recognized and celebrated artists, commissioning major works from composers as diverse as Christian Wolff and Devonté Hynes, and appearing as soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, and on the main-stages of Carnegie Hall, the Barbican Centre, and BAM. He is featured on Wild Up's latest, Grammy-nominated album of works by Julius Eastman.
After his father's unexpected death, Adam Tendler used his inheritance, a wad of cash received in a parking lot, to begin a commissioning project inviting a broad spectrum of sound artists and composers to create new piano works exploring the idea of "inheritance" itself. Woven into one intimate program, these pieces tell a universal story of lineage, loss and place, and become a meditation on confronting our past while moving forward into the future.
"emotionally involving…musically rewarding... It was a joy to hear so much good music from so many contemporary artists." – The New York Times
"currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene" – Minneapolis Star Tribune
About Adam Tendler
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/