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Piano Duo Liva-Stregapede: They play unusual repertoire such as Saint-Saëns' 2-piano arrangement of Liszt's Sonata in B minor, and Shostakovich's arrangement of Honegger's Symphony No. 3; performed world premieres of works by Ástor Piazzolla, unpublished versions for 2 pianos and a version for piano duo by Casella of Beethoven's 9 symphonies ...
Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (/ ˈ k l aɪ b ɜːr n /; July 12, 1934 – February 27, 2013) [1] was an American pianist. At the age of 23, Cliburn achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 during the Cold War.
Although the majority of his compositions are for solo piano, he has also written three pieces for player piano (including the comical Circus Galop, Pop Music for Player Piano based upon "Pop Goes the Weasel", and Solfeggietto a cinque, based on a theme by C.P.E. Bach), and several works for other instruments, including Fanfares for three ...
Unsuk Chin (born 1961): currently working on a set of 12 Piano Studies, of which six have been completed; Karen Tanaka (born 1961): Techno Etudes (2000) Juan María Solare (born 1966): the cycle Postales submarinas (études for inside piano) in 2011. Daisuke Asakura (born 1967): seven études, one for each disc of his Quantum Mechanics Rainbow ...
Julius Eastman (October 27, 1940 – May 28, 1990) was an American composer, pianist, vocalist, performance artist, and conductor.He was among the first composers to combine the processes of some minimalist music with other methods of extending and modifying his music as in some experimental music.
For Lenny (1988), variation for solo piano on Bernstein's song "New York, New York"; also version for obbligato piano and orchestra The piece that stands apart from this largely neoclassical repertoire is Solo (1981), a hybrid minimalist and twelve-tone work employing as a guiding technical principle the gradual transformation of several pitch ...
for guitar, harp, piano (also celesta), vibraphone and female voice (soprano) Chamber music: 1970: 四季: Seasons: for 4 percussion players, or 1 percussion player and tape: also version for traditional Japanese musical instruments: Chamber music: 1967–1971: ムナーリ・バイ・ムナーリ: Munari by Munari: for percussion: Chamber ...
Ray Brown was born on October 13, 1926, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and took piano lessons as a child. [1] After noticing how many pianists attended his high school, he thought of taking up the trombone, but his father was unable to afford one. [1] [2] With a vacancy in the high school jazz orchestra, he took up the upright bass instead. [1]