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Joseph Kubera performs Julius Eastman, Michael Byron, Blue Gene Tyranny & Stuart Saunders Smith
Recognized among contemporary music's most gifted interpreters, new-music piano virtuoso Joseph Kubera is hailed for the unrelenting stamina, precision, and grace of his performances. ISSUE is pleased to present Kubera in an intimate solo piano concert, performing works by Julius Eastman, Michael Byron, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, and Stuart Saunders Smith in celebration of his forthcoming CD from New World Records.
The program features the rarely-heard piano sonata, Piano 2 (1986) by Julius Eastman, a freewheeling and expansive work that stands distinctly apart from his multiple-piano music, showing a new side to this remarkable composer.
Two works written specifically for Mr. Kubera are also featured. Michael Byron's Book of Horizons (2009) is a set of character pieces full of contrast but uncompromising and extremely demanding. The Drifter (1994), by "Blue" Gene Tyranny is a gentle and pensive study in chords and melody, with a fleeting set of added notes (the "drifter") that appears and re-appears, redefining the harmony.
Stuart Saunders Smith's Fences, in Three Tragedies (1998) is a generous exploration of sonority and open texture, widely ranging over the entire keyboard.
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"I think he may well be this era's David Tudor virtuosic, smart as hell, far more eclectic in his tastes than you might think, with a marathoner's strength to deal with any transcendental performance challenge." Robert Carl, Fanfare Magazine
Pianist Joseph Kubera has been a leading interpreter of contemporary music for the past three decades. Recent activities include a TV production of Cage's Music of Changes for Swiss RSI Television and performances at Cage 100th birthday celebrations in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. He has been soloist at such festivals as the Warsaw Autumn, Berlin Inventionen and Prague Spring, and has worked closely with such legendary composers as John Cage, Morton Feldman, La Monte Young, and Robert Ashley. He toured widely with the Cunningham Dance Company at Cage's invitation in the 1970s and 1980s, and he has recorded the Music of Changes and Concert for Piano and Orchestra on CD. Among the composers who have written works for him are Michael Byron, Anthony Coleman, David First, Alvin Lucier, Roscoe Mitchell, and "Blue" Gene Tyranny. Mr. Kubera has been awarded grants through the National Endowment for the Arts and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts.
Mr. Kubera is a core member of S.E.M. Ensemble, the DownTown Ensemble and Ostravska Banda, and he has performed with a wide range of New York ensembles and orchestras ranging from Steve Reich and Musicians to the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Mr. Kubera's playing may be heard on the Wergo, Albany, New Albion, New World, Lovely Music, O.O. Discs, Mutable Music, Cold Blue, and Opus One labels.
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