Piano Spheres
A Los Angeles-based organization that supports and encourages the composition and performance of major new works for the piano.
Piano Spheres’ Emeritus Artist Gloria Cheng presents Looking Above, featuring music by and dedicated to beloved friends and collaborators from her remarkable musical career. An internationally renowned concert pianist, Gloria will offer two special rarities: an unpublished work that modern master composer Pierre Boulez wrote for her to perform at her wedding, entitled Court dérives […]
Piano Spheres Core Artists will visit New York for events at Merkin Hall and Roulette
"X" explores ecstasy and ecstatic states in music. Works by Scriabin, Frances White, Alvin Curran and more
Root Progressions features premieres of 6 solo pieces by 6 acclaimed jazz composers with special guests...
Ray-Kallay present "Inflection Point" exploring the rich tapestry of composers who have called California home
An evening that explores liminal states of consciousness with special guest soprano Elissa Johnston
Guest artist Genevieve Feiwen Lee presents an eclectic program that features speaking and singing with keyboards
Equal temperament broke the world. This concert will fix it. Including works by Isaac Schankler, Georg Friedrich Haas, Alexander Elliott Miller, and Ben Johnston.
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
If you don't see a place to RSVP below, it means we have sold out. If you would like to be put on a waiting list in case someone cancels, please send an email to RSVP@pianospheres.org and we will get back to you. What: A Piano Spheres Fundraising Event Who: Pianists Althea Waites, Andres Jaramillo, […]
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 piano duo HOCKET who joined Piano Spheres as Core Artists in 2019, but she has been part of the Piano Spheres family for over […]