In the Mists

METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS

From Beethoven to Bresnick, Lisa Moore, described by The New York Times as “brilliant and searching…beautiful and impassioned…lustrous at the keyboard”, presents a concert connecting European and American composers with fanciful imagery, as part of In Visible Roads, Metropolis Ensemble x BLUEPRINTS Piano Series

Thursday, April 11, 2019
1 Rivington Street / 2nd Floor (Buzzer #1) / New York, NY
6:30pm (doors) / 7:00pm (event)
Tickets: $15 general / $10 students / $100 festival pass / free for members

Photo credit: © Pedro Barbeito — James Webb I — 2013 — private collection Washington, D.C. (detail)

on the program

Martin Bresnick: Ishi's Song

Missy Mazzoli: Orizzonte

Frederic Rzewski: Piano Piece no. 4

Leos Janacek: In the Mists

Beethoven: Sonata in E flat Major

Schumann: Waldscenen

Through forest scenes and horizons complete with mists, hunts, and a healing song by Ishi, this concert links European and American composers with abundant, imaginative imagery. From Robert Schumann to Missy Mazzoli, Lisa Moore presents a blended collection of cinematic piano music, inspired by our natural world, and human yearnings. Composers include: Ludwig van Beethoven, Martin Bresnick, Leoš Janáček, Missy Mazzoli, Frederic Rzewski, and Robert Schumann.

BLUEPRINTS unites pianists from different musical genres for eclectic concerts that present traditional classical music alongside contemporary works (including premieres), jazz and free improvisation. Co-founded by Daniel Anastasio and Erika Dohi, these unusually varied programs are each inspired by an aesthetic theme or blueprint. In Visible Roads, co-created with Metropolis Ensemble, represents its first major artistic collaboration with another performing organization, with the goal of enriching the community of pianists, composers, and instrumentalists alike through creating and fostering new collaborative relationships.

Yamaha CF6 premium grand piano provided by Yamaha Artist Services New York.

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS

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LISA MOORE / PIANO

Pitchfork writes: “The New York-based Australian pianist Lisa Moore is a tightrope-walker, a daredevil. She’s the best kind of contemporary classical musician, one so fearsomely game that she inspires composers to offer her their most wildly unplayable ideas… READ MORE

MARTIN BRESNICK / COMPOSER

Martin Bresnick was born in New York City in 1946. He was educated at the High School of Music and Art, the University of Hartford (B.A. '67), Stanford University (M.A. '68, D.M.A. '72), and the Akademie für Musik, Vienna ('69-'70). His principal teachers of composition include… READ MORE

MISSY MAZZOLI / COMPOSER

Missy Mazzoli was recently deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” (The New York Times) and “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out New York). Her music has been performed all over the world by… READ MORE

FREDERIC RZEWSKI / COMPOSER

Frederic Rzewski is an American composer and virtuoso pianist. His major compositions, which often incorporate social and political themes, include the minimalist Coming Together and the piano variations The People United Will Never Be Defeated! Rzewski began playing… READ MORE