THURSDAY, June 13th, 2024 at 7:30pm

COMPOSERS IN PLAY: Only Edges

Featuring Jana Luksts, Welsey Shen and Adam Sherkin on piano, toy pianos and fixed electronics with composers in attendance
Music by: Phyllis Chen, Keiko Devaux, Jason Eckardt, George Katehis, Julia Mermelstein, Jeff Nichols and Adam Sherkin

Pianists Jana Luksts, Welsey Shen and Adam Sherkin return to the Chalmers Performance Space in solo, four-hand and six-hand sets that celebrate New York-based composers from CUNY’s composition faculty, alongside Canadian music. Featuring Jason Eckhardt, Jeff Nichols and Phyllis Chen. Works for piano and media are included here, as well as a four-hand piece by Jeff Nichols. Canadians Julia Mermelstein and Keiko Devaux are highlighted; a newly revised work for one piano;six-hands will be premiered by George Katehis. Adam Sherkin gives the premiere of his solo revised toy piano cycle, Southern Frames.

From Julia Mermelstein: “Only Edges explores the intensity of a barren landscape—overwhelmed by extreme heat—exposing the vulnerable to frequent disturbance. There is a sense of desolate space that always lingers throughout the transformations that occur.”

TICKETS:
General admission: $25
SPECIAL ticket price for CMC Associates: $20
Students: $10

PROGRAMME:
MERMELSTEIN: Only Edges with fixed electronics (2018)
ECKHARDT: Echoes White Veil (1996)
CHEN: Carousel for toy piano and hand-cranked music box; Pianofall* for grand piano (2020)
DEVAUX: Murmuration with tape (2015)
SHERKIN: Southern Frames for toy piano (2008, rev. 2019)
NICHOLS: Geistliches Hochzeitslied* for piano, four-hands
KATEHIS: “m”, for piano, six hands (2019, rev. 2022)
* Canadian premiere