Weather permitting ... Julia Bullock performs at 92NY in NYC, while nearby Mary Halvorson is at The Jazz Gallery, and upstate Timo Andres and Aaron Diehl are in Beacon. Across the country, John Adams conducts LA Phil and pianist Víkingur Ólafsson at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Chris Thile is in Texas, performing Bach in San Antonio and Austin.
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Classical singer Julia Bullock joins cellist Seth Parker Woods and pianist Conor Hanick for From Ordinary Things at 92NY’s Kaufmann Concert Hall in New York City tonight and Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall in Rochester, New York, on Sunday. The program includes the New York premiere of Tania León’s Young Songs, as well as works by Nina Simone, George Walker, Ravel, and more. Julia Bullock’s 2022 solo debut album, Walking in the Dark, featured a similarly eclectic repertoire and won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.
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Guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson is also in New York City, joining Anna Webber Nonet at The Jazz Gallery tonight and Saturday. Halvorson’s latest album with her sextet Amaryllis, About Ghosts, was recognized on many year-end lists including the number one spot the 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll New Jazz Albums list, The Quietus, Jazzwise, Mojo, PopMatters, Slate, Guardian, NPR, and more.
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A bit north of the City, composer/pianist Timo Andres joins pianist Aaron Diehl at Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, New York, on Saturday afternoon for a two-piano program as part of the venue's piano festival, in which Jeremy Denk performs next month. The program includes Andres’s Pavane (pour un compositeur défunt) and How can I live in your world of ideas?, from his 2010 Nonesuch debut album, Shy and Mighty, along with works by Bach, Ellington, Monk, and more.
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Composer John Adams conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic and pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. The program includes Adams’s new piano concert, commissioned by LA Phil, After the Fall, and works by Ives, Copeland, and Harris. Last week marked the 40th anniversary of Adams’s Nonesuch debut album, Harmonielehre, which opens 2022’s John Adams Collected Works, a forty-disc box set with recordings spanning four decades of the composer’s career with the label.
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Chris Thile brings music from his new album, Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2, and more, to Texas this weekend, performing at Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in San Antonio tonight and Paramount Theatre in Austin on Saturday. Gramophone names the album an Editor's Choice, calling it "an album of real beauty, emerging as if through the mist—the mandolin proceeds to bring to this familiar music a vivid and highly personal sense of both mystery and joy." It made the yea's best lists of Gramophone, Boston Globe, WRTI, and more.
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