with Mark Robson - piano, Kojiro Umezake - shakuhachi. Music by Messiaen and others

Piano Spheres Summer Jazz Series presents pianist Paul Cornish and his trio on July 30, 8PM at Thayer Hall.

Summer Jazz Series

Pianist Vicki Ray goes ELECTRIC, with special guest Piano Spheres artist Aron Kallay. The program includes works by João Pedro Oliveira, Josh Biggs, Ben Phelps, and a tribute to the late composer William Kraft. João Pedro Oliveira: Titanium William Kraft: Requiescat Josh Biggs: Sound Ribbons for Vicki Ray Ben Phelps: Sometimes I Feel Like My […]

Mari Kawamura presents "Ma," an ancient Japanese concept concerning space and time. Music by Takemitsu, Xenakis and the premiere of a new commission by Karen Tanaka.

Transparent Animals presents a collection of 13 pieces for acoustic and digital pianos...

"a masterpiece of restraint..." -Terry Riley. In cooperation with Monday Evening Concerts

HOCKET explores the virtuosity of 2 prepared pianos with a wide variety of materials

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  An internationally renowned concert pianist, Gloria will offer two special rarities: an unpublished work that modern master composer Pierre Boulez wrote for her to perform at her wedding, entitled Court dérives […]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

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.

The Piano Spheres “30 for 30” anniversary commissioning celebration continues with premieres of new works by Brandon Rolle, Michael Frazier, and Zanaida Robles, matched with three monumental pieces from the middle of the 20th century: Sergei Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 7, Alberto Ginastera’s Sonata No. 1, and Grażyna Bacewicz’s Piano Sonata No. 2.

There has been nothing quite like the music of Morton Feldman, before or since. A singular composer of works embodying a seemingly glacial stillness over long expanses of time, his writing for piano is particularly beautiful. Piano Spheres celebrates the centennial of one of the 20th century’s greatest composers with a marathon program stretching over two days in two venues. Major works to be performed include Crippled Symmetry, For Bunita Marcus, Patterns in a Chromatic Field, and much more. Among the featured highlights will be Piano and String Quartet, which was premiered 40 years ago in Los Angeles. Featuring all of the artists of Piano Spheres with special guests.

There has been nothing quite like the music of Morton Feldman, before or since. A singular composer of works embodying a seemingly glacial stillness over long expanses of time, his writing for piano is particularly beautiful. Piano Spheres celebrates the centennial of one of the 20th century’s greatest composers with a marathon program stretching over two days in two venues. Major works to be performed include Crippled Symmetry, For Bunita Marcus, Patterns in a Chromatic Field, and much more. Among the featured highlights will be Piano and String Quartet, which was premiered 40 years ago in Los Angeles. Featuring all of the artists of Piano Spheres with special guests.

House on Fire, a trio consisting of Andrew Anderson, Wells Leng, and Richard An, was formed around their common interest in new music and is centered around their shared focus as pianists. When performing or commissioning repertoire for three pianists, we frequently encounter the matter of homogeneity: How do you write for three people who ostensibly do the same thing? The pieces on this program each contend with the "three pianist" conundrum in different ways. Some put the performers on keyboards of distinct timbres to encourage a multiplicity of sounds. Others play into the "sameness" and employ the implicit uniformity of the keyboard to create a selfsame texture.

In “The Rilke Project,” pianist Vicki Ray recites poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke which has deeply influenced her work over the years. The poems will be paired with new and recent repertoire for piano, piano and voice, piano and percussion and piano and electronics. World premieres by David Rhodes, Steuart Liebig and Joseph Pereira will be performed as well as repertoire by Peter Eötvös, Charles Ives, Katherine Balch and others. The evening features special guests Elissa Johnston and Joseph Pereira.