A line can go anywhere (mvt 1)
Instrumentation: Solo piano, 1.1.1.1. – 1.1.1.0. – 2perc – 1.1.1.2.1.
Year composed: 2019
Composer website: https://www.acheungmusic.com/
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Photo credit: Camille Tokerud
Martin says:
I really enjoy the combination of looping and unpredictability here, and the way the music points to so many outside reference points, the energy, the vitality, the wit...
Composer/pianist Anthony Cheung writes music that explores the senses, a wide palette of instrumental play and affect, improvisational traditions, reimagined musical artifacts, and multiple layers of textual meaning. His music has been commissioned and performed by leading groups such as the Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, the LA and New York Philharmonics, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Yarn/Wire, AMOC*, Scharoun Ensemble Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and many others. From 2015-17, he was the Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow with the Cleveland Orchestra. He is the recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as a 2012 Rome Prize, and received First Prize at the 2008 Dutilleux Competition. As a co-founder of New York’s Talea Ensemble, he served as pianist and artistic director of the group. Recordings include five portrait discs: All Roads (New Focus, 2022), Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions (Kairos, 2022), Cycles and Arrows (New Focus), Dystemporal (Wergo), and Roundabouts (Ensemble Modern Medien). He studied at Harvard and Columbia, and was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He previously taught at the University of Chicago and is an Associate Professor of Music at Brown University.