[SOLD OUT] Phillips Collection: Dan Tepfer, piano

• Dan Tepfer, piano

Please note: Due to demand, all concerts for the Phillips Music 2024-25 Season are now sold out.

Pianist, composer, and improvisor Dan Tepfer earned global acclaim for his 2011 album Goldberg Variations / Variations, a project during which he performed Bach's music with added improvisations. Building off this success, he turns to another pillar of J.S. Bach's output which most pianists play at some point during their lives, the two-part Inventions. His program "Inventions / Reinventions" builds off these 15 study pieces, adding nine of his own improvisations in the remaining keys not used by Bach. Tepfer's additions stand on their own, and rather than reacting to the content or style of Bach's inventions, they engage with the principles of their composition as studies in playing two voices and the elaboration of simple ideas.

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About Dan Tepfer, piano

One of his generation's extraordinary talents, Dan Tepfer has earned an international reputation as a pianist-composer of wide-ranging innovation, individuality, and drive—one "who refuses to set himself limits" (France’s Télérama). The New York City-based Tepfer, born in 1982 in Paris to American parents, has recorded and performed around the world with some of the leading lights in jazz and classical music, from Lee Konitz to Renée Fleming, and released eleven albums of his own in solo, duo and trio formats.