2022/2023 Concert Season
Seattle Symphony New Music Summer Series
On Demand September 15 - September 28
7 video premieres (Gibson, Kotcheff, Dixon, Shyu, Meenaghan, Oba, & Richards)
Piano Spheres presents HOCKET: Exploded Keyboards
January 24, 2023
8:00 PM
Zipper Concert Hall
200 S Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
HOCKET explores the virtuosity of two prepared pianos with a wide variety of materials including coins, screws, nuts & bolts, and more in John Cage’s seminal work, Three Dances for two prepared pianos. Alongside this groundbreaking work, HOCKET will be premiering companion pieces by Sarah Gibson for the same instrumentation and Peter S. Shin for two prepared pianos and electronics.
Wild Up presents HOCKET/Rountree
March 25, 2023
8:00 PM
A feature of two LA performer / composers Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff (HOCKET), and the world premiere of a two piano concerto by Wild Up founder, Christopher Rountree.
Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra
May 7, 2023
3:00 PM
Woodruff Arts Center
1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30309
World premiere of Can't Never Could a fantasy for two pianos & orchestra by Sarah Gibson
Piano Spheres: new piano sounds from Los Angeles
May 9, 2023
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
The inimitable 28-year-old Los Angeles concert series Piano Spheres—founded 28 years ago in Los Angeles by pianist, scholar, teacher, and new music champion Leonard Stein—presents new music from Los Angeles-based composers for piano, toy piano, and microtonal keyboards. The concert features innovative pianists Mark Robson, Ray/Kallay Duo, and HOCKET performing works by Nina Shekhar, Samuel Adams, Sarah Gibson, Thomas Kotcheff, and Daniel Rothman, among others. Piano Spheres is both a musical collective and a presenting organization that has been presenting innovative new music for the piano for over 28 years. While all individual artists have performed in New York before, this is Piano Spheres’ first ensemble performance in New York.
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. Watch below or on YouTube.