Saturday, February 8, 2025 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (EST)
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, New York, NY, United States
$30 ($25 arts workers; students free)
Adam Sherkin, piano
On the heels of Canadian Opera Company's brilliant new commission, French-Canadian composer Julien Bilodeau joins the Piano Lunaire mainstage for two American premieres.
The knack for story-telling that Quebec composer Julien Bilodeau commands is on full display in his piano music, just as much as in his operatic works. A master of pacing and colour, Bilodeau also wields a prodigious dexterity of dimensionality and emotional sincerity in his music. The intimacy and impact of his piano music is gazed through two premieres on this programme: the four Spring Études, composed in 2011 before the composition of Bilodeau's first Piano Concerto, revised in 2024; and Six Paraphrases on La Reine-garçon (2025), written especially for Adam Sherkin and given its U.S. premiere.
From Bilodeau: "Through these paraphrases, the listener will be transported on a condensed journey that recounts the highlights of the opera while being able to appreciate a mode of pianistic writing that is both virtuoso and poetic."
About Piano Lunaire
The Piano Lunaire is a contemporary classical music organization based in New York and Toronto, pursuing the presentation of artistic excellence in the 21st Century. The company’s portfolio is three-fold: we produce monthly full moonperformances, house a record label, and collaborate with the musical community at large, in capacity of both fundraising and pedagogical platform.
About Adam Sherkin, piano
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