Project In BriefMetropolis Ensemble and Blueprints Piano Series collaborated to produce a 13-event festival centered around conversations about the piano.
The festival featured 20 pianists, 28 living composers, and 10 instrumental collaborators.
The project brought together seemingly disparate jazz artists and improvisers, classical and contemporary specialists.
“The last few concerts in this co-presentation by the Blueprints Piano Series and the composer-and-performer collective Metropolis Ensemble bring an intriguing array of mostly contemporary, mostly piano works to the Bowery.” (The New Yorker)
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Project Development
2019Metropolis partnered with Blueprints Piano Series, co-founded by Daniel Anastasio and Erika Dohi, to create a pan-stylistic festival and musical cartography with the piano as guiding compass.The project goals were to foster new collaborations with pianists, composers, and instrumentalists across jazz, classical, and contemporary music genres.
In Visible Roads Festival
March 19—April 21, 2019 at One Rivington NYCMetropolis and Blueprints hosted 13 events centered around a Yamaha CF6 premium grand piano.The series featured 20 pianists, 28 living composers, and 10 instrumental collaborators.Press coverage included The New York Times, The New Yorker, and New York Classical Review.
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