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SUMMARY:Gloria Cheng & Ralph van Raat - in concert
DESCRIPTION:Resonant Encounters: Boulez\, Feldman\, Cage\, and Beyond \nPianists Gloria Cheng and Ralph van Raat pay homage to the legacy of Pierre Boulez\, the unparalleled French composer\, conductor\, and cultural visionary who transformed postwar contemporary music and left an indelible mark on the sound of the 20th century. \nCheng and van Raat take brief solo turns in two unpublished Boulez works that are exclusive to them: a selection from the early Trois Psalmodies\, for which Ralph van Raat was granted sole permission by the Boulez heirs to perform and record; and Courtes Dérives à partir d’Éclat\, a whimsical\, open-form work that Boulez composed for Cheng as a wedding present. \nQuietly cherished for decades as a private gift\, Cheng began performing the piece after its appearance in Boulez’s official catalogue drew inquiries from performers and scholars. It is a rare instance of Mr. Boulez supplying a pièce d’occasion\, of which Cheng has so far been the only performer. \nProgram includes works for solo and duo piano by Boulez\, John Cage\, Morton Feldman\, Magnus Lindberg\, Igor Stravinsky\, and Frank Zappa. \n“A meaningful combination of Boulez’s music with that of others…\, brilliantly performed…casts new light on the Frenchman’s music.” Opusklassiek (Amsterdam) \n* \n \nAcclaimed for her “commanding technique\, color\, and imagination” (The New York Times)\, Gloria Cheng has long been recognized as a leading champion of new music. Over the course of her distinguished Grammy- and Emmy-winning career\, she has served as a muse to composers across a wide stylistic spectrum\, premiering works by John Adams\, Thomas Adès\, Pierre Boulez\, Anthony Davis\, Terry Riley\, Esa-Pekka Salonen\, John Williams\, and many others. \n \nRalph van Raat is a pianist and musicologist mainly devoted to twentieth- and twenty-first-century music\, performing worldwide and championing its beauty through recitals\, concertos\, recordings and special projects. Winner of major international awards\, he has inspired new works from composers such as Andriessen\, Bryars\, Rzewski and Tan Dun\, and performed over 60 concertos with leading orchestras. He has recorded more than 40 CDs and teaches in Amsterdam and Turin. A Steinway Artist since 2003. \n  \nMade possible in part by support from Villa Albertine.
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/gloria-cheng-ralph-van-raat-in-concert/
LOCATION:Nimoy Theater\, 1262 Westwood Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
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SUMMARY:Pierre-Laurent Aimard - an afternoon of music and conversation
DESCRIPTION:One of the major figures of music in our time\, Aimard shares his insights about Arnold Schoenberg and his legacy in contemporary music. Join us for this rare opportunity to hear this exciting artist in a lively conversation with LA Times music critic Mark Swed\, illustrated at the piano. \n* \nPierre-Laurent Aimard was born in Lyon in 1957. He entered the Paris Conservatory at age 12 as a pupil of Yvonne Loriod\, also studying with Maria Curcio in London. In 1973\, he won first prize at the Olivier Messiaen Competition\, which launched his international career and established him as one of the composer’s major interpreters. In 1977\, Aimard was invited by Pierre Boulez to join the newly founded Ensemble intercontemporain\, where he remained as principal pianist for 18 years. During this time\, he participated in many world premieres. \nWidely acclaimed as a key figure in contemporary music\, Aimard has collaborated closely with Helmut Lachenmann\, Karlheinz Stockhausen\, György Kurtág\, György Ligeti (recording his complete works)\, as well as with George Benjamin and Marco Stroppa among other composers. He is also recognised as a leading interpreter of traditional repertoire\, giving solo and chamber music recitals and appearing with major orchestras and conductors around the world. In 2017\, he was awarded the International Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in recognition of a life devoted to the service of music. In 2022\, he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize — Denmark’s highest musical honour. He has held professorships at the Cologne University of Music and Dance\, Paris Conservatory and Royal Academy of Music\, and the prestigious Artistic Creation annual chair at the Collège de France in Paris. \nHis many successful recordings include Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier Book II (2025)\, which follows the release of Book I in 2014; Kurtág: Játékok (2025); Schubert: Ländler (2024); Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux; and Bach: The Art of Fugue (2008)\, which debuted at no. 1 on Billboard’s Classical Albums Chart and won the Diapason d’Or. \n  \nMade possible in part by support from Villa Albertine.
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/pierre-laurent-aimard-an-afternoon-of-music-and-conversation/
LOCATION:2220 Arts + Archives\, 2220 Beverly Blvd.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90057
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SUMMARY:Nic Gerpe - in concert
DESCRIPTION:Road Trip \nFew experiences are as exciting\, liberating\, relaxing\, anxiety-inducing\, meditative\, lonely\, and free as the feel of the open road. All of our journeys have a different purpose and destination –  to seek solitude\, to get to nature\, to seek new paths\, to find ourselves\, or for the pure thrill and joy of the ride. \nThis program will feature pieces which evoke all elements of a journey – Timo Andres‘ rollicking and rolling “At the River\,” the (mis)adventures of John Psathas‘ “Jettatura\,” Juhi Bansal‘s fantastic evocation of the Utah night sky in “Land of Waking Dreams\,” Dante De Silva‘s picturesque and autobiographical “Drive-Thru Etudes\,” and the wide-open spaces of Aaron Copland‘s Piano Sonata. The concert will also feature a World Premiere of Tonia Ko‘s newest work\, commissioned by Nic Gerpe and Piano Spheres. \n* \n \nA dedicated proponent of new music\, Los Angeles native Nic Gerpe has given numerous world and regional premieres by composers such as John Luther Adams\, Paul Moravec\, Anne LeBaron\, and Gernot Wolfgang\, among others. Nic has performed throughout Southern California and abroad in such venues as Walt Disney Concert Hall\, Zipper Hall\, the Wallis Annenberg Center\, the Ojai Music Festival and the Banff International Keyboard Festival. His November 2025 Pianos Spheres concert\, entitled “Islands\,” was selected as one of San Francisco Classical Voice’s “Best Performances of 2025.”
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/nic-gerpe-in-concert/
LOCATION:Thayer Hall at the Colburn School\, 200 S Grand Ave.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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SUMMARY:Piano Spheres presents Enno Poppe's "Rundfunk"
DESCRIPTION:Enno Poppe\, among the most important composers in Germany today\, created “Rundfunk” (“Broadcast”) for nine synthesizers as a loving tribute to the music studios of the public broadcasting services which led to some magical moments of a medium that aimed to interrogate its own possibilities and requirements: “I don’t use historic instruments\, but historic sounds from the ‘60s and ‘70s: FM synthesis\, Minimoog\, Piganino. Their pioneers are Gottfried Michael Koenig\, Thomas Kessler\, John Chowning\, Wendy Carlos\, and Tangerine Dream. No original instruments are being used but only computer-generated reproductions.” In the field of electronic music there has been rapid technical development for decades. Just as rapid is the fading of those same new technologies. Often\, earlier pieces can no longer be performed today because the required technologies went missing or don’t work anymore\, or performers simply don’t know how things were done 25 years ago. \n“The virtuosically polyphonic piece titled Rundfunk\, composed for nine synthesizers by Enno Poppe which\, although pure electronic music\, is nonetheless a symphony in three movements.” -Die Zeit \nUS PREMIERE \nPerformed by: \nVicki Ray\nThomas Kotcheff\nAron Kallay\nNic Gerpe\nJack Dettling\nAshley Zhao\nTodd Moellenberg\nBrendan White\nKaitlyn Vahala
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/piano-spheres-presents-enno-poppes-rundfunk/
LOCATION:Nimoy Theater\, 1262 Westwood Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270323T200000
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SUMMARY:Vicki Ray - in concert
DESCRIPTION:SÉRIE BLEUE \nInspired by iconic books by Maggie Nelson and William Gass\, pianist Vicki Ray presents a musical evening exploring the color blue. Works include “Blue Diamonds” by Paul Dresher\, “Série Bleue” by Pierre Jodlowski\, and world premieres by Alex Wand and Hunter Ochs/Severin Behnen.  \n* \n \nDescribed as “phenomenal and fearless” Vicki Ray is a pianist\, improviser and composer. She has commissioned and premiered countless new works by today’s leading composers. Ray is a founding member of Piano Spheres and was\, for many years\, the head of keyboard studies at the California Institute of the Arts where she was named the first recipient of the Hal Blaine Chair in Musical Performance. She has appeared on numerous international festivals and was a regular member of the faculty at the Bang On a Can Summer Festival at MASS MoCA. Ray has been featured on the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series as soloist and collaborative artist. Her widely varied performing and recording career covers the gamut of new and old music: from Boulez to Reich\, Wadada Leo Smith to Beethoven. Notable recordings include the first Canadian disc of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with the Blue Rider Ensemble\, the premiere recordings of Steve Reich’s You Are (Variations) and the Daniel Variations with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the first recording of John Cage’s Europeras 3 and 4. Her recording of Cage’s The Ten Thousand Things on Microfest Records received a 2013 Grammy nomination. Vicki can also be seen playing the chromelodeon in the Los Angeles based PARTCH ensemble. Vicki Ray is a Steinway artist.
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/vicki-ray-in-concert/
LOCATION:2220 Arts + Archives\, 2220 Beverly Blvd.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90057
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SUMMARY:Thomas Kotcheff - in concert
DESCRIPTION:Fixed/Flexible \nThomas Kotcheff presents an evening exploring the intersection of virtuosity\, technology\, and musical transformation through works that reimagine the piano as both a rhythmic engine and an evolving collaborator. The program features Kotcheff’s original multi-tracked piano arrangements of Anna Meredith‘s Bumps Per Minute (18 Studies for Dodgems) and FIBS\, transforming Meredith’s propulsive electronic sound world into intricate performances by a single pianist multiplied through studio recording. \nThe concert also includes the world premiere of a new Piano Spheres commission by Christopher Rountree. In Piano and Tape\, Rountree upends the traditional relationship between performer and fixed media\, treating tape not as a predetermined accompaniment but as an unpredictable creative partner. The work explores chance\, memory\, and improvisatory decision-making\, inviting the pianist into a continuously shifting dialogue between permanence and spontaneity. Together these works examine how technology can both expand and challenge musical performance\, blurring the line between the human and the mechanical\, the fixed and the flexible. \n* \n \nThomas Kotcheff is composer and pianist whose music has been praised as “truly beautiful and inspired” (icareifyoulisten) and “explosive” (Gramophone) and has dedicated himself to commissioning and premiering new piano works. In 2020\, Thomas released the world premiere recording of Frederic Rzewski’s 75-minute solo piano work Songs of Insurrection\, and his 2024 album Re/Sounding: An American Songbook for Piano is a collaboration with composer Jordan Nelson. His work as a composer includes contributions to major film scores\, most notably composing and orchestrating music for Oppenheimer\, with additional film credits including Black Panther: Wakanda Forever\, Haunted Mansion\, Origin\, Bob Marley: One Love\, Eddington\, and The Wild Robot among others.
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/thomas-kotcheff-in-concert/
LOCATION:2220 Arts + Archives\, 2220 Beverly Blvd.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90057
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SUMMARY:Alex Tchaykov - in concert
DESCRIPTION:POETICS \nPianist and poet Alex Tchaykov presents an evening of music in conversation with poems\, including Joan Tower’s piano suite “No Longer Very Clear” (inspired by John Ashberry)\, Jerome Kitzke’s “Sunflower Sutra” for speaking pianist (set to Allen Ginsburg’s poem of the same name)\, plus a song cycle set to the artist’s own poetry. \n\nTide \nfrozen moon i\nspin\np\ni\nr\na\nl \nagainst your\neternal dial \nshell\nfitting\ni\nn\nt\nout\nof\nwave \n(from Synapses) \n* \n\nAlexandre Tchaykov is a Bulgarian\, LA-based pianist\, poet\, and interdisciplinary explorer. He directs Spectra\, a concert series devoted to prismatic programs that refract themes into a multiplicity of musical meanings. A passionate teacher\, he leads a private piano studio and has instructed courses in musicianship\, music history\, and music appreciation. Over the years\, he’s had piano fellowships at Tanglewood\, New Music On The Point\, and Kneisel Hall. Alexandre holds degrees from UCLA (DMA)\, Northwestern University (MM)\, and UGA (BM and BA English). In his free time\, he enjoys baking and taking nature walks. \nAlex Tchaykov is the Piano Spheres Emerging Artist for 2026-27 \n * \nTickets for this concert will go on sale through the Boston Court Pasadena box office in the Fall.
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/alex-tchaykov-in-concert/
LOCATION:Boston Court\, 70 N Mentor Ave\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91106\, United States
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