Katelyn Vahala – Dreamscapes
Thayer Hall at the Colburn School 200 S Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CAPraised as a “highly accomplished pianist….with wonderfully rhythmic and robust playing” (New York Concert Review)
Praised as a “highly accomplished pianist….with wonderfully rhythmic and robust playing” (New York Concert Review)
A pianist with “impressive technical skill and innate musicality” (Unsuk Chin), Emerging Artist Ashley Zhang is an active solo and chamber musician
HOCKET revives the silent film era with their new project Photoplay Music: New works for Silent Film
A special fundraising event featuring concert works by Hollywood film composers
World renowned guest artist Stephen Drury will celebrate the Ives sesquicentennial two days after Ives’ birthday with a special performance of Ives' complete sonatas for piano, including the monumental "Concord" sonata. 30 for 30 composer Paul Beaudoin composed a piece that “suggests some of the wilder, fantastical adventures into the half-childlike, half fairy-like phantasmal realm” of the Concord Sonata.
"Spielfreude", the joy of playing, describes the sheer physical and emotive pleasure of performing at the keyboard
All PS artists come together for this moving tribute to founding pianist Susan Svrcek composer Rick Lesemann
Colombian American pianist Dr. Andrés Jaramillo is our 24/25 Leonard Stein Resident Artist
Featuring two new large-scale works by important international composers Taylor Brook & Thomas Meadowcroft
Emerging Artist Thomas Mellan presents Collective Hysteria: featuring premieres of 3 new 30 for 30 piano pieces and a piece of his own entitled Rituel
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We regret to inform you that Celebrating Pierre Boulez has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control
On July 14, 2024 the Piano Spheres family lost one of our own. Sarah Gibson was a brilliant pianist, a fierce composer, and an inspirational educator. She was half of […]
The program brings together two seemingly unrelated worlds: the rigorous chromatic pointillism of Morton Feldman (whose centenary we celebrate this season), and iconic works from popular and electronic music. The common thread between these divergent elements is the performer. What may sound like remixes or reimaginings are, at their core, simply interpretations — shaped by the same creative impulses that guide any artist working across genre boundaries.
Hong Kong/Canadian/American pianist Vicky Chow has been described as “brilliant” (New York Times) and “one of our era’s most brilliant pianists” (Pitchfork). Since joining the Bang on a Can All-Stars in 2009, she has collaborated and worked with artists including Tania León, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, George Lewis, John Zorn, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Michael Gordon, Alarm Will Sound, International Contemporary Ensemble, Wild Up, Tyshawn Sorey, John Zorn, and Kronos Quartet among others.
Islands evoke myriad vivid impressions and captivate our imaginations. As places of stunning beauty, mystery, and isolation, “where the contours of the land itself form a kind of sinewy poetry,” countless associations come with the very mention of the word. Islands conjure a range of emotions and flights of fancy, from images of wild, exotic natural wonders, to metaphorical and spiritual connections. In this program, Nic Gerpe will present a range of colorful and evocative pieces which explore the many aspects and connotations of islands, from the imaginary landscapes of Almeida Prado’s Ilhas to Thomas Osborne’s poetic and virtuosic And The Waves Sing Because They Are Moving. The program will include captivating works by Donnacha Dennehy, Salina Fisher and Christopher Cerrone, and will feature world premieres of “30 for 30” Piano Spheres commissions by Robert Pollock, José-Luis Hurtado and Paul Moravec.