Piano Spheres & David Gordezky: The Satie Project

Dada, experimental puppetry, and avant garde clowning come together with the complete piano four-hands works of Erik Satie interspersed with new compositions by seven American composers. A musical concert and trip into the absurd make up this unique performance that will journey from the profoundly poetic to the comically bizarre. Master puppeteer David Gordezky and his compatriots are side by side with the artists of Piano Spheres, featuring premieres of “30 for 30” Piano Spheres commissions by TJ Cole, Mikhail Johnson, Jihyun Kim, Veronika Krausas, Celka Ojakangas, Nate Schram, and Dale Trumbore.

Nic Gerpe, Aron Kallay, Thomas Kotcheff, Vicki Ray – piano
David Gordezky, Rachel Ho, John Morgenstern – puppets

PROGRAM:

Erik Satie’s works for piano four hands:
Aperçus désagréables (Unpleasant Glimpses)
En habit de cheval (Riding Gear)
Trois petites pièces montées (Three Little Stuffed Pieces)
Trois morceaux en forme de poire (Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear)

And the seven new commissions:
TJ Cole – Lentement (Slowly)
Mikhail Johnson – Redite
Jihyun Kim – Morceaux 3
Veronika Krausas – (Une autre) Manière de commencement
Celka Ojakangas – En plus
Nathan Schram – More of the Same
Dale Trumbore – Detached