Piano Spheres
A Los Angeles-based organization that supports and encourages the composition and performance of major new works for the piano.
Gerald Clayton searches for honest expression in every note he plays. With harmonic curiosity and critical awareness, he develops musical narratives that unfold as a result of both deliberate searching and chance uncovering.
The NY Times calls Clayton, “A remarkable player, he seems to understand what our ear wants — blooming harmony, melodic improvisations, firm landings — and how to deliver it.”
GRAMMY and Oscar nominated composer/pianist and leader of the legendary Roger Kellaway Cello Quartet.
A special fundraiser featuring 13 world-class pianists performing Messiaen's iconic masterpiece at Debs Park.
Piano Spheres is shocked and saddened by the recent death of the brilliant pianist composer Frederic Rzewski. He was supposed to give a recital on February 8th. We are planning a memorial concert featuring many Piano Spheres artists. Stay tuned...
Vicki Ray contemplates vastly different realizations of Stravinsky's paradoxical statement "All composition is frozen improvisation" in works by Bartok, Cecil Taylor, Schnittke, Wadada Leo Smith, Kagel, Harold Budd, Ligeti, Nicholas Deyoe, and Poulenc.
Mr. Harada is the best known Ondist in Japan, and one of the few masters of this unique instrument in the world. With special guests Mark Robson, piano Kojiri Umezaki, shakuhachi (from Silk Road Ensemble). Support from the Japan Foundation
HOCKET explores the virtuosity of two prepared pianos with a wide variety of materials including coins, screws, nuts & bolts, and more in John Cage's seminal work, Three Dances for two prepared pianos.
Musical exchange and fantasy form are the inspirations for a program of preludes, fantasies, and other short works by seven composers spanning half a millennium. Like a beating heart, Schumann’s Fantasiestück, Op. 12 is nestled in the middle of the recital.