Merkin Concert Hall, © Photo: John Bartelstone Awadagin Pratt: Piano at Kaufman Music Center
New York, Merkin Concert Hall — Main Hall
About the Event
Winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition and an Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, pianist Awadagin Pratt has received acclaim for delivering “forceful, imaginative, and precisely tinted” performances (The Washington Post) and has been hailed as “one of the great and distinctive American pianists and conductors of our time” (WGBH Radio). Pratt sparks intimate and surprising connections across the decades in a program of music by Florence Price, Missy Mazzoli, Tyshawn Sorey, Julius Eastman and more, including a world premiere transcription by the pianist.
FLORENCE PRICE – Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho
GEORGE WALKER – Sonata No. 1, “Theme and Six Variations”
R. NATHANIEL DETT – 8 Bible Vignettes
LOU HARRISON – “Ground” from A Summerfield Set
HENRY COWELL, JOHN CAGE & VIRGIL THOMSON – Party pieces 3,4,10
WILLIAM GRANT STILL – Summerland
MISSY MAZZOLI – The Night Ahead and No Real Fate
TYSHAWN SOREY – Untitled
JULIUS EASTMAN – Touch Him When
JUDD GREENSTEIN – First Ballade
FRED HERSCH – Nocturne for Left Hand Alone (For Sophia)
JEREMY JORDAN – Keyboard Suite #1: Nocturne and chorale
MIKAEL DARMANIE – Ritual
BURLEIGH/PRATT – Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Address
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, USA — Google Maps
