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SUMMARY:Genevieve Feiwen Lee - La Voix du Pianiste
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday March 5th at 8PM: Genevieve Feiwen Lee at Thayer Hall \nGuest pianist Genevieve Feiwen Lee will present “La Voix du Pianiste” or Voice of the Pianist.  Ms. Lee will present a program that features speaking and singing with keyboards.  Performing on piano\, toy piano\, harpsichord\, and other percussion instruments\, Genevieve will be utilizing her voice in three languages.  Works will include world premieres by Chris Castro and Livia Malossi Bottignole\, plus Gao Ping’s Daydreams\, and Kurt Rohde’s Famous Last Words for speaking keyboard player and assorted items. \n 
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/genevieve-feiwen-lee-la-voix-du-pianiste/
LOCATION:Thayer Hall at the Colburn School\, 200 S Grand Ave.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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SUMMARY:Aron Kallay - The Blur of Time and Memory
DESCRIPTION:Alternate Tunings. Past. Future. Perfect. Imperfect. \nEqual temperament broke the world. This concert will fix it. Including works by Alexander Elliott Miller\, Isaac Schankler\, and Ben Johnston\, with a new work for solo synthesizer by Matthew Brown and a new chamber concerto for retuned piano and American Gamelan by Akshaya Avril Tucker. Featuring Brightwork cellist Maggie Parkins\, and guest ensemble Gamelan Light Streams.
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/aron-kallay-the-blur-of-time-and-memory/
LOCATION:2220 Arts + Archives\, 2220 Beverly Blvd.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90057
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SUMMARY:Katelyn Vahala - Dreamscapes
DESCRIPTION:Dreamscapes takes the listener through landscapes both real and imagined. Inspired by music that brings together both the natural and fantastical\, along with her own love for the outdoors\, Vahala will perform works by John Luther Adams\, Juhi Bansal\, John Corigliano\, Corey Dundee (new commission)\, Kate Moore\, Gabriella Smith\, Daniel Temkin (West Coast premiere) and Gillian Whitehead.  \nPraised as a “highly accomplished pianist….with wonderfully rhythmic and robust playing” (New York Concert Review)\, Katelyn Vahala is a passionate soloist\, chamber musician\, educator\, and arts advocate in the Los Angeles area.  Katelyn was a finalist in the 2022 Leipzig International Bach Competition\, where she performed with the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig. In addition to winning the 2021 USC Thornton Concerto Competition\, Katelyn is the first prize winner of the 2019 Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition\, where she also won the Contemporary Music Award.
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/katelyn-vahala-2/
LOCATION:Thayer Hall at the Colburn School\, 200 S Grand Ave.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T200000
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SUMMARY:Shaoai Ashley Zhang - Notes of Crimson
DESCRIPTION:Piano Spheres Emerging Artist Shaoai Ashley Zhang presents “Notes of Crimson\,” an evening of contemporary compositions evoking the rich colors of solo piano. From Isang Yun’s brooding Interludium A to Luciano Berio’s monumental Sequenza IV\, this concert offers a tour de force of the instrument. Featured will be the world premiere of a Piano Spheres commission by Fernanda Aoki Navarro\, as well as the namesake of the program\, crimson by Rebecca Saunders. \nA pianist with “impressive technical skill and innate musicality” (Unsuk Chin)\, Shaoai Ashley Zhang is an active solo and chamber musician. A champion of contemporary music\, Ms. Zhang has premiered dozens of new works and collaborated closely with composers including Helmut Lachenmann\, Sofia Gubaidulina\, and Unsuk Chin. Ms. Zhang presents recitals featuring both new and old piano repertoire\, which puts contemporary music in dialogue with the past. Recent engagements include appearances as a soloist in Unsuk Chin’s Double Concerto with the Palimpsest Ensemble\, as well as Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22\, K. 482 with the UC San Diego Chamber Orchestra. \nIn addition to solo activities\, Ms. Zhang has appeared at numerous contemporary music festivals\, including Lucerne Festival Academy\, Tanglewood Music Festival\, Darmstädter Ferienkurse and the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice. A sought-after collaborator\, Ms. Zhang regularly appears as part of Duo am Meer with saxophonist Andrew R. Steinberg\, presenting concerts in Hong Kong\, China\, Russia\, and Germany\, as well as across the US. Ms. Zhang is also a member of Duo Refracta with percussionist Michael Jones\, and their upcoming album release will feature music by Kevin Good\, Aaron Wyanski\, and David Macbride.
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/ashley-zhang/
LOCATION:Thayer Hall at the Colburn School\, 200 S Grand Ave.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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SUMMARY:HOCKET - Photoplay Music
DESCRIPTION:Photoplay is a co-production with Piano Spheres and CAP UCLA Center for the Art of Performance. \nThis event has already taken place! \nHOCKET revives the silent film era with their new project Photoplay Music: New works for the Silent Film Era\, a cinematic concert experience. Featuring icons of French Surrealist Silent Film\, Photoplay Music features newly commissioned works for three classic films by some of today’s most innovative composers Ian Dicke\, José Martínez\, and Gemma Peacocke. \nHarkening back to the early days of Hollywood when a pianist accompanied every silent film screening\, HOCKET will use two pianos and electronics to highlight these new film scores. Known for their exuberant performance style\, HOCKET breathes new life into classic works of cinema\, creating a concert experience that will delight both film and music aficionados. \nThomas Kotcheff – piano\nDavid Kaplan – piano \nTaylor Vaughn Lasley will introduce the program and provide context. \nComplete Program:\n\nMan Ray’s L’Étoile de mer (with a new score by José Martinez)\nMan Ray’s Les Mystères du Château du Dé (with a new score by Gemma Peacocke)\nRené Clair’s Entr’acte (with a new score by Ian Dicke)\n\nOne of the two Yamaha CFX Pianos for this performance was donated courtesy of Faust Harrison Pianos and Yamaha Corporation of America
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/hocket-photoplay-music/
LOCATION:Nimoy Theater\, 1262 Westwood Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240615T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240615T160000
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SUMMARY:Hollywood Spheres - A Special Event - June 15: SOLD OUT!
DESCRIPTION:Thank you for your interest in Hollywood Spheres.  We’re sorry to say we’ve reached capacity for this event and tickets are no longer available online.  If you would like to be put on a waiting list\, please send an email to RSVP@pianospheres.org and we’ll let you know about any cancellations as they come up.  If you’d still like to make a donation to Piano Spheres\, please click HERE! \nWhat:\nA special fundraising event featuring concert works by Hollywood film composers to help raise funds for Piano Spheres’ 30th Anniversary season in 2024/25.  There will be music\, food\, drink and exciting announcements! \nWho:\nSpecial guest pianist Scott Dunn\, conductor of the new Scott Dunn Orchestra and associate conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra\, will perform his own arrangements of music by modernist film composers including Bernard Herrmann\, Leonard Rosenman\, and Alex North from films such as Psycho\, A Streetcar Named Desire and Rebel Without a Cause.  Piano Spheres artists Gloria Cheng\, Mark Robson and Nic Gerpe will also perform concert music by historic and contemporary film composers. \nWhen:\nSaturday June 15th at 1:00 pm \nWhere:\nThe home of a generous film composer in Pasadena (detailed information will be sent upon ticket purchase). You can purchase tickets below. If you have a code\, please enter it on the next page.  If you have questions please contact RSVP@pianospheres.org. And if you can’t come but would still like to support our 30th Anniversary season\, please CLICK HERE
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/hollywood/
LOCATION:A Private Home in Pasadena\, Address will be sent after registration
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241022T200000
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SUMMARY:Stephen Drury: Charles Ives @ 150
DESCRIPTION:October 20\, 2024 marks the 150th birthday of America’s great original composer Charles Ives. Growing up in New England as the son of a bandmaster\, Ives developed a uniquely American compositional voice.   His music includes ragtime\, gospel hymns\, parade marches\, and wild\, visionary dissonance\, all woven into a sound never before heard in classical concert music. 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 with its musical visions of Emerson\, Thoreau\, Hawthorne and the Alcott family\, as well as the quirky and ironic “Three Page 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. If you don’t see a form to puchase tickets below\, please CLICK HERE! \nPROGRAM \nStephen Drury\, piano\nCHARLES IVES AT 150 \nFirst Sonata Charles Ives\nAdagio con moto\nAllegro moderato; “In the Inn”\nAdagio\n“not for the lilies lying back in soft dress-circle\ncushion to lap up pretty velvet sound with their\nsoft ears”; Allegro\nAndante maestoso \nThree Page Sonata Ives \nINTERMISSION \nbrook line(s) Paul Beaudoin\nfirst performance \nSonata #2\, “Concord\, Mass. 1840 – 1860” Ives\nEmerson\nHawthorne\nThe Alcotts\nThoreau
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/charles-ives-150/
LOCATION:Thayer Hall at the Colburn School\, 200 S Grand Ave.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241109T200000
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SUMMARY:Mark Robson: Spielfreude
DESCRIPTION:“Spielfreude\,” the joy of playing\, describes the sheer physical and emotive pleasure of performing at the keyboard. Mark Robson’s recital offers a program that largely takes its cue from this idea\, with pieces from a range composers including Ligeti\, Glass\, Cowell\, Messiaen\, Aldo Clementi and Ginastera\, with premieres by Peter Knell\, Hannah Rice and Daniel Rothman. Also featured will be Schoenberg’s Zwei Klavierstücke\, Op. 33 in honor of the composer’s 150th birth anniversary. \nPROGRAM \nAllegro con spirito (nr. 3 from Musica ricercata) – György Ligeti \nEtude 2 in C (from Twenty Etudes for Piano) – Philip Glass \nFleeting (nr. 3 from Nine-Ings) – Henry Cowell \nQuintes (nr. 5 from Douze Études d’interprétation) – Maurice Ohana \nB. A. C. H. – Aldo Clementi \nWhat Bodies Know (‘30 for 30’ commission) – Daniel Rothman \nSnapshots ’24 (’30 for 30’ commission) – Peter Knell \nJe dors\, mais mon coeur veille – Olivier Messiaen\n(nr. 19 from Vingt Regards sur L’Enfant-Jésus)  \nINTERMISSION \nZwei Klavierstücke\, Op. 33 – Arnold Schoenberg\na) Mässig\nb) Mässig langsam \nCherubino – Hans Werner Henze\nAndante cantabile\nSostenuto\nCon allegrezza \nStreets of Laredo (nr. 1 from American Ballads) – Roy Harris \nDanza de la moza donosa (nr. 2 from Danzas argentinas) – Alberto E. Ginastera \nBulgarian Dance nr. 6 (from Mikrokosmos\, Vol. 6) – Béla Bartók \nI AM (‘30 for 30’ commission) – Hannah Rice \nCanicas e Ilusiones – Francisco Cortés-Álvarez \nCLICK HERE TO READ FULL PROGRAM NOTES
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/spielfreude/
LOCATION:Zipper Concert Hall and the Colburn Plaza\, 200 S Grand Ave.\, Los Angeles\, 90012
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SUMMARY:for Susan and Rick
DESCRIPTION:featuring pianists:\nGloria Cheng\nNic Gerpe\nAron Kallay\nThomas Kotcheff\nNelson Ojeda Valdés\nVicki Ray\nMark Robson \nPiano Spheres’ founding pianist Susan Svrček was known for her elegant and insightful performances. Her untimely passing in 2022 foreshadowed the loss of her husband of 32 years\, influential composer Frederick Lesemann who wrote much of his later music for her and whose music she championed. This concert is a rare opportunity to hear all of Piano Spheres’ Core and Emeritus Artists on the same stage at the same time! They will perform works by Charles Ives\, Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage often performed by Svrček\, as well as music by Lesemann written for her. This concert is a love letter from Susan and Rick’s colleagues\, students and friends\, three of whom (composers Donald Crockett\, Thomas Flaherty and Bill Alves) have written pieces for this concert as part of the Piano Spheres ‘30 for 30’ commissioning program. \nConcert Program: \nArnold Schoenberg – Introduction to the Gurrelieder – Vicki Ray\, Nic Gerpe\, Gloria Cheng\, Mark Robson\nBill Alves – Just a Phase – Aron Kally and Thomas Kotcheff\nFrederick Lesemann – Preludes (…after a tenor by Guilliaume Dufay) #1? – Mark Robson\nCharles Ives – Three Quarter-tone Pieces – Vicki Ray and Aron Kallay\nDonald Crockett – Chaconne – Mark Robson\nJohn Cage – Dream – (with photos) – Vicki Ray\nThomas Flaherty – ConcorDance – Gloria Cheng\nFrederick Lesemann – Barcode – Nic Gerpe and Nelson Ojeda Valdés \nThis concert is made possible by a generous donation by Susan and Rick’s good friends\, Allan and Muriel Kotin.
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/a-concert-for-susan-and-rick/
LOCATION:Zipper Concert Hall and the Colburn Plaza\, 200 S Grand Ave.\, Los Angeles\, 90012
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250121T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250121T220000
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SUMMARY:Andrés Jaramillo - A Journey of Immigrants
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This concert is now SOLD OUT. If you previously RSVP’ed\, your name will be on a list at the door.  If you are on our waiting list\, Tuesday evening we will admit as many guests as possible beginning at 7:55 PM as space allows.  This waiting list is for the concert only\, not the pre-concert discussion.  Thank you so much for your support! \nColombian American pianist Andrés Jaramillo is our Leonard Stein Resident Artist for 2024/25. Dr. Jaramillo specializes in the music by contemporary Latinx composers. Every composer on this program (including four world premieres and three 30 for 30 compositions) is or was an immigrant.  Through these solo piano works\, Andrés explores the myriad emotions\, perspectives\, and approaches inherent in the immigrant experience\, intertwining the composers’ own cultural backgrounds with those of their new homes. Jaramillo will perform three new compositions by 30 for 30 composers Paola Márquez\, Jorge Salazar and Josh Rodriguez. \nPlease join Dr. Jaramillo\, moderator Veronika Krausas\, and composers Paola Marquez\, Jorge Salazar and Josh Rodriguez for a free pre-concert discussion at 7:00 PM in Thayer Hall before the concert.  The panel will discuss the emotional experiences of immigrant people as represented in Dr. Marquez’ composition Five Etudes on the Immigrant’s Season\, and how they influence the cultural and creative lives of new arrivals in the US. These stages are sometimes expressed as honeymoon\, frustration\, depression\, adjustment and acceptance.  Admission to the discussion is free with tickets to the show.  For more about Andrés Jaramillo\, please click HERE. \n“A JOURNEY OF IMMIGRANTS”\n\nSet of 3 Latin American pieces:\n\n\nToccata – Jorge Pinzón (1968-)\n\n\nAncestro – German D. Perez (1964-)\n\n\nLa Zacapaneca – Jorge Luis Sosa (1964-)   WORLD PREMIERE\n\n\nFive Characteristic Colombian Pieces – Jorge A. Salazar (1978-) WORLD PREMIERE\n\n\nDanza\n\n\nCosta (Porro)\n\n\nPasillo\n\n\nAlabao\n\n\nJoropo\n\n\n                             INTERMISSION \n\nLuz Entre Aguas (Light Amidst the Waters) – Josh Rodriguez (1982) WORLD PREMIERE\n\n\nDistancia\n\n\nEstancia\n\n\n\nEl Intachable – Juan Domingo Cordoba (1971-) \nEtudes for Immigrants – Paola Marquez (1978-) WORLD PREMIERE \n\n\nEtude I – The arrival (Wonder)\nEtude II – Echoes of Home (Homesick) \nEtude III – Silent rain (Frustration)\nEtude IV – Resonance (Acceptance) \nEtude V – Two Lands One Love (Embrace) \n\n \nThe Consulate of Colombia in Los Angeles is a proud supporter of this event
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/a-journey-of-immigrants/
LOCATION:Thayer Hall at the Colburn School\, 200 S Grand Ave.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250218T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250218T220000
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SUMMARY:Brook and Meadowcroft
DESCRIPTION:The concert features two new large-scale works by important international composers Taylor Brook and Thomas Meadowcroft. Meadowcroft’s “All Possible Combinations” is the next installment in a series of works focused on aspects of ‘Deep Easy Listening’\, which attempts to reconcile immersive modes of listening outside of commodified time. “Nox” by Taylor Brook combines the composer’s unique approach to the integration of electronic and digital media as he explores the passage of time through a single night in a way that draws on unconscious states where logic becomes fuzzy and imagination goes to unusual and seemingly impossible places. Both Brook and Meadowcroft are 30 for 30 composers.  Below is a NEW video clip of Nox by Taylor Brook showing the electronic and digital video effects featured in his composition. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjwqR_O6zLI
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/brook-and-meadowcroft/
LOCATION:Thayer Hall at the Colburn School\, 200 S Grand Ave.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250326T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250326T220000
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SUMMARY:Thomas Mellan: Collective Hysteria
DESCRIPTION:Emerging Artist Thomas Mellan presents Collective Hysteria: a celebration on Pierre Boulez’s 100th birthday. Boulez is synonymous with music of era-defining extremes\, showcasing brutal violence and sensual tenderness often in the same breath. The program centers around Boulez’s monumental Second Piano Sonata\, from 1948. As Boulez said: “History as it is made by great composers is not a history of conservation but of destruction – even while cherishing what is destroyed.” In this spirit\, Thomas will present a new original work titled “Rituel”\, honoring Boulez\, for piano and electronics. Premieres of new 30 for 30 piano pieces by organist/composer Rashaan Allwood\, underground death metal legend Colin Marston and Ukrainian virtuoso violinist Orest Smovzh round out this celebration of a 20th century icon. \nProgram:\n– 30 for 30 commission by Rashaan Allwood\n– “Rituel” by Thomas Mellan\n– 30 for 30 commission by Orest Smovzh\n(intermission)\n– 30 for 30 commission by Colin Marston\n– Boulez’s Piano Sonata No. 2
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/collective-hysteria-the-three-piano-sonatas-of-pierre-boulez/
LOCATION:Thayer Hall at the Colburn School\, 200 S Grand Ave.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250510T130000
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SUMMARY:Empathy\, Compassion and Good Trouble - A Special Event!
DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \nWhat: A Piano Spheres Fundraising Event\nWho: Pianists Althea Waites\, Andres Jaramillo\, Vicki Ray\, Aron Kallay\, Mark Robson and Thomas Kotcheff\nWhen: Saturday\, May 10th at 1PM – 4PM\nWhere: A private home in Pasadena (location will be sent after RSVP)\nDonation: $200\n  \nMusic has always reflected the times we live in.  Troubled times produce music of Empathy\, Compassion\, and what the late civil rights leader John Lewis called “Good Trouble.”  On Saturday May 10th at 1PM\, Piano Spheres presents pianists Andres Jaramillo performing music from his program “A Journey of Immigrants\,”  Althea Waites playing “Troubled Water” by Margaret Bonds\, Thomas Kotcheff performing “Songs of Insurrection” by Frederick Rzewski\, and Vicki Ray\, Aron Kallay and Mark Robson playing contemporary arrangements of iconic American songs and anthems by Vicki Ray and Mark Robson. We promise to let the music do the talking!\n  \nThis special event will take place at a private home in Pasadena.  There will be delicious appetizers\, desserts and drinks\, and a special introduction to Piano Spheres’ next Executive Director!  90% of our $20\,000 fundraising goal will go toward offsetting the impending loss of government funds\, and the remainder will be donated to Musicares to support musicians who lost everything in the devastating fires.  Space is limited\, so please RSVP Today!  If you are a student\, artist\, on a fixed income or someone displaced by the fires\, please send an email to rsvp@pianospheres.org to request a discount code.\n\nIf you prefer you can send a check to: \nPiano Spheres\n4209 Via Arbolada #231 \nLos Angeles\, CA 90042-5095 \nTo RSVP\, enter the number of guests below and then click on the green button!
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/good-trouble/
LOCATION:A Private Home in Pasadena\, Address will be sent after registration
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250530T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250530T220000
DTSTAMP:20250531T211403Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Pierre Boulez 1925-2025\, Fri May 30\, 8PM CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:We regret to inform you that Celebrating Pierre Boulez 1925-2025 at The Nimoy\, scheduled for Friday\, May 30th\, has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control.\n\nWe sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding. Refunds for all ticket holders will be processed automatically — please allow 7–10 business days for the funds to appear on your original payment method.\n\n\nWe hope to reschedule this performance in the 2025-26 season and will update you when possible.  If you are a season ticket holder we will be in touch with you to discuss options. \n\nPresented in association with CAP UCLA \n\n“It’s not just that Ms. Cheng plays these daunting pieces with such commanding technique\, color and imagination. She has brought together works that fascinatingly complement one another.” —New York Times \n“I enjoy Van Raat on recording\, but given the chance to hear him again live\, I would run\, not walk.” —Christian B. Carey\, Musical America \nCelebrate the centennial of Pierre Boulez\, the unparalleled French composer\, conductor\, and cultural visionary\, with a captivating duo piano recital. Born on March 26\, 1925\, Boulez transformed post-war contemporary music\, leaving an indelible mark on the 20th century. His extensive conducting career and foundational role in institutions like Paris’s Cité de la Musique and IRCAM highlight his monumental influence. \nPianists Gloria Cheng and Ralph van Raat pay homage to Boulez’s legacy\, performing not only his solo and duo compositions but also works by John Cage\, Morton Feldman\, Frank Zappa\, and Magnus Lindberg. Their selection celebrates Boulez’s broad musical connections\, from his well-documented mutual respect with Zappa to his complex relationships with Cage and Feldman\, offering a profound reflection on his impact and the cross-pollination of musical ideas across generations. \nThe program opens with a heartfelt tribute to the late composer/pianist Sarah Gibson of HOCKET and Piano Spheres. \nSarah Gibson: our eyes once watered (2018)\n\nPierre Boulez: Structures Livre 1\, 1a (1952)\nJohn Cage: Music for Piano 4\, 19 (1953)\nExperiences No. 1 (1945)\nPierre Boulez: Scherzo (1945)\nMorton Feldman: Two Pianos (1957)\nMagnus Lindberg: Play 1 (1979)\nBoulez: Structures Livre 2\, Chapitre 2 (1961)\nBoulez: Courtes dérives à partir d’Éclat (1996)\nFrank Zappa: Ruth Is Sleeping (1992)\nIgor Stravinsky: Sonata for Two Pianos (1943-44)
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/celebrating-pierre-boulez-1925-2025-postponed/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250714T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250714T220000
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SUMMARY:A Concert for Sarah
DESCRIPTION: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 a decade as both an Emerging Artist and Guest Artist. Sarah was a dedicated friend and colleague\, an inspiring teacher\, and a bright light in our tightly knit new music community. Please join the Piano Spheres family as we come together to celebrate Sarah with heartfelt performances of her music.
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/a-concert-for-sarah/
LOCATION:Thayer Hall at the Colburn School\, 200 S Grand Ave.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261007T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261007T220000
DTSTAMP:20260730T125325Z
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SUMMARY:Charlemagne Palestine - in concert
DESCRIPTION:“GRADUALLY MY ARPEGGIOS BEGAN TO BECOME STRUMMMMMSSSSS AND STRUMMMMINGGGGSSSS” \n  \nCharlemagne Palestine returns to Los Angeles for a rare performance of his monumental Strumming Music\, which he has been developing since the early 1970s and describes as an approach and technique that is always different. “It is not a ‘composition’ as such” he says\, “it is an evolutionary liquid sound continuum process that I have presented hundredsss of versions that I have performed over the last 50+ years.” \n* \n \nBorn in 1947\, Chaim Moshe Tzadik Palestine\, known as Charlemagne Palestine\, came from a Russian Jewish family who left Odessa and Minsk at the dawn of the twentieth century to settle in Brooklyn\, New York. He began his musical training singing traditional synagogue musics. From the age of 7 until 14\, he was a member of the Stanley Sapir traditional chassidic music choir singing in synagogues all over the east coast of America. Later he enrolled at the High School of Music and Arts in upper Manhattan and studied voice\, accordion\, piano\, drawing\, painting and sculpture\, and immediately  developed an interest in the composers who were creating sounds using recording tape techniques and  generating sounds by electronic music machines as well as non-western musics from all over the world that he discovered listening to disks from the Folkways label founded by Moses Asch. In 1963\, he became the bell ringer at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in New York City\, located next to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Every day for six years\, he played traditional Protestant hymns as well as inventing an experimental sound approach using the large resonant church bells as his sound source and devised a soap opera sequence of hundreds of variations of complex bell sonorities every day at 5pm for several years. His performances resonated throughout the church’s surroundings and attracted the attention of thousands passersby each afternoon\, including artists\, choreographers and composers like Alwin Nikolais\, Len Lye\, Moondog\, John Cage\, Tony Conrad\, and Ingram Marshall. \nHe took advantage of the geographical proximity to MoMA to become a regular visitor of the museum and explore all the museum’s collections\, where he discovered French Impressionists and American Abstract Expressionist painters who were a revelation and inspiration to him. The color explorations of Monet\, Seurat\, Rothko\, Albers\, Still and others became one of the catalysts for his own aesthetic quest. He imagined inventing a continuous sound form that paralleled the visual artists canvases and structures and imagined created sound canvases and structures that continued to exist nonstop and always present as visual art works were. \nDuring this period\, he associated with numerous figures of the artistic avant-garde and counterculture: Allen Ginsberg\, Kenneth Anger\, Richard Serra\, Tony Conrad\, Steve Reich\, Gordon Matta Clark\, Philip Glass\, Jean Dupuy\, La Monte Young\,  Sol LeWitt\, Terry Riley\, and many others. \nFollowing a meeting with electronic music composer Morton Subotnick at his New York University electronic music studio in 1967 he began to compose numerous electronic sound works using continuous synthesized sounds made with a Buchla 2000 electronic music synthesizer that was the sound source for Subotnick’s electronic music studio. In 1968-69\, he deepened his knowledge of electronic synthesizers and especially the changing timbre spectrum possible with multiple sound oscillators and electronic filters at night at this NYU music studio. There he met other experimenters\, Eliane Radigue\, Rhys Chatham\, Serge Tcherepnin\, Maryanne Amacher\, Ingram Marshall\, and many others. In 1969\, at Subotnick’s invitation\, he and Ingram Marshall moved to Los Angeles\, California\, and began experimenting and teaching  at CalArts\, where he discovered large pipe organs in downtown Los Angeles  and a Bösendorfer Imperial Grand Piano with an extra lower octave  in the enormous concrete ultra resonant cube of the new Cal Arts building in Valencia that he named The Temple but that would eventually become the celebrated Modular Theatre of Cal Arts Valencia. From 1971 he began creating long continuous works for piano and organ that he named “Spectral Continuums\,” often lasting as long as five hours for the piano  and 48 hour works for church organs. Simultaneously\, he worked on a synthesizer prototype with Don Buchla and Serge Tcherepnin and developed with them a synthesizer he called The Spectral Continuum Drone Machine. \nAround this time\, he met the dancer Simone Forti\, with whom he began a sound and movement ritualistic collaboration that they called Illuminations. Their first performance in Los Angeles at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1971  was greatly appreciated  by the then large avant-garde group of artists\, dancers\, and musicians from Los Angeles and the many who had now been imported from all over the art world as members of the faculty of the new California Institute of the Arts and especially Alan Kaprow the dean of arts then and convinced them to continue and develop this Illuminations ritual performance form. From then on for nearly 50 years Simone and Charlemagne were invited worldwide to present Illuminations.   \nCharlemagne Palestine was also interested in Javanese and Balinese gamelan. He traveled to Indonesia in 1971 with Ingram Marshall to study this music. He was also introduced to Hindustani music by Pandit Pran Nath. \nA champion of sonic continuum\, drone\, and trance\, Charlemagne Palestine is particularly renowned for his strumming technique\, a term that can be translated as “struck music.” Derived from flamenco and the chime technique\, strumming is based on repetition and the physicality of playing\, but also on the idea that the instrument has its own voice and can\, depending on how it is played\, produce a series of harmonics that seem to emerge spontaneously. Thus\, in his works (primarily improvised)\, Palestine plays on resonance and the layering of sounds to sculpt sonic masses in a perpetual quest for the “golden sound.” By extension\, during his concerts\, he seeks to engage in a dialogue with the performance space by saturating the available sonic space in such a way as to make it vibrate. \nMarked by spirituality\, tradition and shamanism\, his performances are ritualized: he drinks cognac\, smokes Indonesian clove cigarettes\, and places a multitude of teddy bears (his “deities”)\, scarves and other fabrics on the concert venue and on the instrument. \nAlthough associated with the minimalist music movement\, he rejects this label in favor of “maximalist\,” a term which\, according to him\, allows one to set no limits. \nCharlemagne Palestine was also a video artist pioneer (Body Music series\, 1973-74\, Island Song\, 1976\, and Ritual in the Emptiness\, 2004) creating an audio visual form that became classics of early video art performance works and also invented and developed a multimedia form of installations merging his sounds\, rituals and the inclusion of the stuffed animal toy as a modern shamanic divinity totem and created Gesamtkunstwerks (total art works) for MoMA NYC\, 356 Mission in LA\, The Kunsthalle Vienna\, The Museum of Art and History in Paris\, Documenta Kassel Germany and many other installation venues all over Europe and the US.. He deploys his teeming universe of stuffed animals and sacredly charged rags in site-specific installations\, often monumental in scale. He began as an artist of the Sonnabend Gallery in NYC in the early seventies and then became represented by the Toselli Gallery Milano\, Oppenheim Gallery Cologne\, Lara Vincy Gallery Paris\, and most recently by the Meredith Rosen Gallery in New York City. Though born in Brooklyn\, for years he lived in Soho\, Tribeca\, and Dumbo in NYC while settling from time to time in Paris\, Lyon\, Rotterdam\, Geneva\, and now has lived in Brussels\, Belgium since 1999.
URL:https://pianospheres.org/event/charlemagne-palestine-in-concert/
LOCATION:The Brick\, 518 N. Western Ave.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90004\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261120T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261120T220000
DTSTAMP:20260820T170905Z
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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\, Olivier Messiaen\, 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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261122T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261122T160000
DTSTAMP:20260807T174850Z
CREATED:20260730T125325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260807T174850Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270107T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270107T220000
DTSTAMP:20260813T202827Z
CREATED:20260730T125325Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270213T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270213T220000
DTSTAMP:20260730T125325Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270323T220000
DTSTAMP:20260730T125325Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270421T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270421T220000
DTSTAMP:20260806T233334Z
CREATED:20260730T125325Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270522T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270522T220000
DTSTAMP:20260812T204107Z
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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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