Excerpts from Echoes of Gamelan: Colin McPhee, Brian Baumbusch, Leopold Godowsky, Ni Nyoman Srayamurtikanti. Shared concert with John Bischoff.
Excerpts from Echoes of Gamelan: Colin McPhee, Brian Baumbusch, Leopold Godowsky, Ni Nyoman Srayamurtikanti. Shared concert with John Bischoff.
Echoes of Gamelan explores the influence of gamelan music on western composers, as well as how our music perception changes depending on the context. Colin McPhee’s transcriptions of Balinese ceremonial music are interwoven with pieces by Godowsky, Debussy, Holst, and Baumbusch. The program closes with a transcription of a piece by Balinese composer Ni Nyoman Srayamurtikanti, originally written for Balinese shadow-puppet theater instruments.
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"...dazzling" - LOS ANGELES TIMES
Since joining forces as a professional duo in 2009, internationally acclaimed solo pianists EVA-MARIA ZIMMERMANN and KEISUKE NAKAGOSHI - ZOFO - have electrified audiences from Carnegie Hall to Tokyo Japan with their dazzling artistry and outside-the-box thematic programming for piano-four-hands. This GRAMMY-nominated, prize-winning Steinway Artist Ensemble - one of only a handful of duos worldwide devoted exclusively to piano duets - is blazing a bold new path for four-hands groups by focusing on 20th and 21st century repertoire and by commissioning new works from noted composers each year.
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