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Timo Andres in San Francisco:
LA Dance Project • Solo Recital • On Philip Glass with Kronos
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Right now the composer/pianist Timo Andres is at San Francisco Performances, appearing in a series of concerts including PIVOT dates – a collaboration with LA Dance Project (Jan. 23) and a solo recital (Jan. 26) – and this Friday, Feb. 2, a conversation/performance with the Kronos Quartet, On Philip Glass.
Joshua Kosman, Jan. 27, 2018
"Timo Andres is a musical triple threat. To his well-established credentials as a composer and a pianist, we can now add a third strain: Andres has a dazzling knack for assembling a concert program.
All three gifts were on display (though in tellingly uneven proportions) during the swift and brilliant hour-long solo recital he gave at the Strand Theater on Friday, Jan. 26, as part of San Francisco Performances’ Pivot series. This was the work of someone who had thought seriously about how to present the music he had assembled for the occasion, and then gone on to deliver it in performances of subtlety and insight...with a superb blend of crisp keyboard clarity and soft-edged lyricism."
Read the full review here.
"At the Strand Theater on Friday, the Brooklyn-based composer and performer gave a refreshingly unorthodox piano recital through San Francisco Performances’s PIVOT series, which is focused on new music in somewhat informal settings. With respect to pitches, Andres arranged his program — weaving movements of Janáček between new piano works written by his friends — also New York-based and young — in a way that created seamless transitions between the old and new. There were no breaks, no designated periods for coughing and shifting: It was an immersive listening experience, a puritanical concertgoer’s dream."
Read the full review here.
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LEOŠ JANÁČEK: Selections from On an Overgrown Path
CAROLINE SHAW: Gustave le Gray
ERIC SHANFIELD: Utopia Parkway
CHRISTOPHER CERRONE: The Arching Path
(Timo is carrying this recital program through 2019. Contact Emily Motherwell with booking inquiries.)
From Andres's program note:
I suppose what I’m trying to “say”, if one can speak through one’s programming, is that the way an artist sees art and the world is not usually confined to a single form or discipline. The qualities that move me in music are the same that move me about a building, a photograph, or a piece of choreography. They’re all related in cryptic ways.
Want to learn more? Read the full program note (and more) on his website here, and check out this lovely interview with Timo Andres in San Francisco Classical Voice (Lou Fancher, Jan. 9, 2018).
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Timo Andres's upcoming highlights include:
• a duo recital at the Barbican Centre with David Kaplan, featuring Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances (April 27)
Please explore Timo Andres's full calendar to learn about many more upcoming performances, and a range of new commissions.
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On The Blind Banister with Joshua Weilerstein and the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Caramoor:
"There’s nothing unsure about “Blind Banister,” an extraordinarily confident stream of twenty-three minutes. Like John Adams and the late Steven Stucky, Andres has succeeded in carrying forward the mainstream tradition of orchestral modernism (which includes Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Ives, and, now, Adams himself) in a way that is no less distinctive for seeming so ironic and abashed: the piece is at once gently private and powerfully communal in its gestures and devices."
- Russell Platt, THE NEW YORKER, July 18, 2016
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Enjoy videos of Timo Andres in action below, and contact Emily Motherwell, OtherARTS, to inquire about booking and commissioning opportunities in coming seasons.
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Timo Andres performs Chopin's Polonaise Fantasie in A flat Major, Op 61 at WQXR's 2016 Chopin Marathon.
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Philip Glass Etude No. 16, performed by Timo Andres at the Phillips Collection.
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Timo Andres: At the River, performed by Andres on a "Mixtape" program with Gabriel Kahane at Music on Main.
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