Alt + Piano

alternative [adjective]
1. available as another possibility
2. of or relating to behavior that is considered unconventional and is often seen as a challenge to traditional norms


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Quartertuned +

An exploration of music for re-tuned, re-mapped, and re-imagined pianos and keyboards.
Repertoire chosen from the following:

Three Quarter-Tone Pieces
(1924) --Charles Ives
for two pianos tuned a quartertone apart

Corroded Communes (2008) -- Kraig Grady
for keyboard tuned to secor 2

Prelude #3 for 19ET Piano (2004) -- Jeff Harrington
for 19-tone equal temperament

Lightning Slingers & Dead Ringers (2008) --Annie Gosfield
for piano & sampler

Hommage a Ligeti (1982/84) -- Georg Haas
for two pianos tuned a quartertone apart

Paths of the Wind (2010) -- Bill Alves
for retuned keyboard

Chiaroscuro (1997) -- John Corigliano
for two pianos tuned a quartertone apart

Suite for Microtonal Piano (1977) -- Ben Johnston
for retuned piano/keyboard

Triskiadekaphonia (2005) -- Kyle Gann
New Aunts (2008)
Fugitive Objects
(2007)
for re-tuned, re-mapped keyboards
PROGRAM

Shepherd’s Pi (2010) -- Tom Flaherty
for toy piano and electronics

Paths of the Wind (2010) -- Bill Alves
for retuned keyboard

The Perilous Night (1943) -- John Cage
for prepared piano

Nothing is Real (Strawberry Fields) (1990) -- Alvin Lucier
for piano, amplified teapot, tape recorder, & Miniature sound system

INTERMISSION

Lightning Slingers & Dead Ringers (2008) -- Annie Gosfield
for piano & sampler

Fugitive Objects (2007) -- Klye Gann
for retuned & remapped sampled piano

Man on Wiire (2010) -- Isaac Schankler
for piano, Wii Controller & electronics

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PROGRAM

Quaderno Musicale Di Annalibera
(1952) -- Luigi Dallapiccola

Musica Ricercata (1953) -- Giorgi Ligeti

INTERMISSION

Imaginary Dances (1988) -- William Duckworth

Nunataks (Solitary Peaks) (2007) John Luther Adams

Piano Sonata No. 1 (1997) -- Nancy Galbraith
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Below are three programs that are currently in my fingers. For booking information, send me an email.