Frequency Series Presents: Adam Tendler: INHERITANCES
Schedule
Sun, 02 Feb, 2025 at 08:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
3111 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60618 | Chicago, IL
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After his father’s unexpected death, pianist Adam Tendler used his inheritance, a wad of cash received in a parking lot, to begin a commissioning project inviting a broad spectrum of sound artists and composers to create new piano works exploring the idea of 'inheritance' itself. Woven into one intimate program, these pieces tell a universal story of lineage, loss, and place, and become a meditation on confronting our past while moving forward into the future.
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> > Adam Tendler, piano
> > > New works by: Devonté Hynes, Nico Muhly, Laurie Anderson, inti figgis-vizueta, Pamela Z, Ted Hearne, Angélica Negrón, Christopher Cerrone, Marcos Balter, Missy Mazzoli, Darian Donovan Thomas, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Scott Wollschleger, Mary Prescott, Timo Andres and John Glover
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> > > > > > Grammy-nominated pianist Adam Tendler is a recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, the Yvar Mikhashoff Prize, and is considered "currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), “relentlessly adventurous” (Washington Post), a "remarkable and insightful musician" (LA Times), and an "intrepid... maverick pianist" (The New Yorker). A pioneer of DIY culture in classical music, at 23 Tendler performed solo recitals in all fifty United States as part of a grassroots recital tour called America 88x50, the subject of his coming-out memoir, 88x50. He has gone on to become one of today’s most recognized and celebrated performers in classical-contemporary music, appearing with the London Symphony Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, NJ Symphony, and on the main-stages of Carnegie Hall, the Barbican Centre, Sydney Opera House, Roy Thomson Hall, BAM, and leading series and stages nationwide. This year he also performed at the Venice Biennale and Milan Fashion Week.
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> > > > > > > Tendler's recordings include his much-anticipated Inheritances album, comprising 16 new works for piano from composers including Laurie Anderson, Nico Muhly, Dev Hynes and Missy Mazzoli, commissioned using the entire inheritance left to him by his semi-estranged father. Inheritances was a New York Times Critic Pick, describing the program as "emotionally involving...with a sense of true dramatic stakes." Tendler's recordings also include Wild Up's Grammy-nominated album of works by Julius Eastman, If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?, as well as solo albums of music by Robert Palmer, Franz Liszt, and his own music.
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> > > > > > > Adam Tendler was 2024’s Artist in Residence at Brooklyn's Green-wood Cemetery, creating an immersive installation, Exit Strategy, exploring queerness, grief and identity through music, visual art, text, and artifacts. Adam Tendler is a Yamaha Artist, and serves on the piano faculty of NYU.
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3111 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60618, 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618-6409, United States,Chicago, IllinoisEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
