MUSIC
ADAM TENDLER: INHERITANCES
Saturday, February 10, 2024 // 7:30pm
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater
After his father’s unexpected death, pianist Adam Tendler used his inheritance, a wad of cash received in a parking lot, to begin a commissioning project inviting a broad spectrum of sound artists and composers to create new piano works exploring the idea of ‘inheritance’ itself. Woven into one intimate program, these pieces tell a universal story of lineage, loss, and place, and become a meditation on confronting our past while moving forward into the future.
New works to be performed are from a wonderful range of commissioned composers: Devonté Hynes, Nico Muhly, Laurie Anderson, inti figgis-vizueta, Pamela Z, Ted Hearne, Angélica Negrón, Christopher Cerrone, Marcos Balter, Missy Mazzoli, Darian Donovan Thomas, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Scott Wollschleger, Mary Prescott, Timo Andres and John Glover.
Adam Tendler is a recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, 2022 Yvar Mikhashoff Prize recipient, and “currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), a “remarkable and insightful musician” (LA Times), and “relentlessly adventurous pianist” (Washington Post) “joyfully rocking out at his keyboard” (New York Times). An internationally recognized interpreter of living, modern and classical composers, and a pioneer of DIY culture in concert music, at age 23 Tendler performed solo recitals in all fifty states as part of a grassroots tour called America 88×50, the subject of his acclaimed memoir, 88×50. He has gone on to become one of classical and contemporary music’s most recognized and celebrated artists, appearing recently as soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, LA Philharmonic and on the main-stages of Carnegie Hall and BAM. Tendler recently released an album of Liszt’s Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses on the Steinway Label, Robert Palmer: Piano Music on New World Records, and published his second book, tidepools. In 2022, he premiered 16 newly commissioned works using the complete inheritance left to him by his father after his untimely death, including by Laurie Anderson, Devonté Hynes, Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli, Christopher Cerrone, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Timo Andres and Pamela Z as part of a project called Inheritances. Adam Tendler is a Yamaha Artist and serves on the piano faculty of New York University (NYU).
This project is produced by and presented in partnership with Liquid Music.
Liquid Music is one of the world’s leading producers of special projects in contemporary music, an internationally recognized laboratory for artists from across genre and disciplinary spectrums. This creative institution serves as a safe place for performers, composers and audiences to stretch and challenge their comfort zones while experiencing cathartic, lifegiving performances.
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