Name: The Fromm Players at Harvard present "Piano: Sonic Revolutions"
Start: 2024-04-05T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-04-07
Location: Paine Hall

The Fromm Players at Harvard present "Piano: Sonic Revolutions"

Harvard University Music Department

Curated by Professor Hans Tutschku featuring a variety of special guests on piano.

Paine Hall

This year’s Fromm Players Concert at Harvard is a series of four concerts across three days, April 5-7, 2024. These concerts showcase the Department of Music’s two new Steinway D Grands and highlight the piano's versatility and dynamism as an instrument that has evolved from traditional classical beginnings to a world where music and modern technology meet. The four concerts feature solo and duo works with video, electronics and live-interactions.The Saturday late night concert is a dialogue between Vijay Iyer and Hans Tutschku, where improvisations are augmented by the integration of machine learning and artificial intelligence to enhance the interplay between an improvising pianist and computer-generated voices. In real-time, improvisation will engage in a dynamic dialogue with trained, untrained, and learning agents, generating multiple voices that serve as counterparts, commentaries, and inspiration for the pianist.There will be a free reception between the Saturday night concerts.Free event parking will be available at the Broadway Garage for all concerts.PROGRAMS: Friday, April 5 at 7:30pm MICHAEL BEIL Doppel JOHN ADAMS Hallelujah Junction BACH-LISZT Prelude and Fugue in A Minor LISZT Sonata in B Minor BABONI SCHILINGI SonataSaturday, April 6 at 7:30pm OUTI TARKIAINEN Without a trace IRIS TER SCHIPHORST Eden Cinema I PAULINE OLIVEROS Breaking boundaries DARIYA MAMINOVA Melchior YVES DAOUST ImpromptuSaturday, April 6 at 10pm NANCARROW Study for Player Piano No. 37 HANS TUTSCHKU Duos for One PianistSunday, April 7 at 7:30pm KAIJA SAARIAHO Prelude for Piano HANS TUTSCHKU Irrgaerten PERTTU HAAPANEN Das Lied CHIKASHI MIYAMA Piano Chimera PIERRE BOULEZ Structures IIPerformers include: Catherine Vickers, Sebastian Berweck, Paavali Jumppanen, Emil Holmström, Jacopo Baboni Schilingi, Simon Ghraichy, Vijay Iyer, and Hans Tutschku

Please join us at 7:00pm each evening for a demonstration of a Mason &amp; Hamlin Ampico (American Piano Company) Reproducing Piano in the Paine Hall Lobby. This piano, made in Boston in 1927, has the ability to reproduce the expression, dynamic range, articulation, and pedaling of pianists, by playing rolls of music recorded by artists such as Alfred Cortot, Artur Schnabel, Sergei Rachmaninoff.

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