Metropolis Ensemble and Timo Andres Recital

Celebrating a 20+ year artistic collaboration, Grammy-nominated Metropolis Ensemble and composer/pianist Timo Andres present an intimate evening of solo piano works inspired by Andres’ recent Carnegie Hall debut of quintessentially varied American music including delicate piano masterpieces by Duke Ellington, the last of Philip Glass’s 20 piano etudes, and Frederic Rzewski’s boisterous Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues.

Also featured will be Andres new work Fiddlehead (2024 Carnegie Hall commission), highlighting Andres’s “textural imagination and ear for piquant harmony” (The Guardian), and a New York premiere by the inventive Gabriella Smith.

“The question of what constitutes ‘Americanness’ in art has long interested me. It was little more than 100 years ago that composers started writing music that sounded ‘American,’ transcending the Eurocentric pastiches of earlier efforts. It’s a recent enough occurrence that one can still imagine different paths composers could’ve taken, could still take. These works represent, to me, the best qualities in American music.” -Timo Andres

This program was generously underwritten by an Anonymous Donor and the Soo & Carolina Kim Foundation.

Receptions begins at 4:00 PM
Doors close at 4:45 PM, recital begins promptly at 5:00 PM