Nicolas Hodges piano & Guus Janssen orgel

Name: Nicolas Hodges piano & Guus Janssen orgel
Start: 2024-11-03T15:15:00+02:00
End: 2024-11-03T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Orgelpark

Schedule

Sun Nov 03 2024 at 03:15 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Orgelpark | Amsterdam, NH

Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam @ ORGELPARK !
Nicolas Hodges piano
Evan Johnson: A fountain (2024) - première
Morton Feldman: Piano (1977)
& Guus Janssen orgel, improvisatie
https://www.orgelpark.nl/agenda/nieuwe-noten
“Hodges… is one of the leading performers of advanced European music… He makes seemingly unintelligible music speak for itself… And is a pianist with a flabbergasting technique and instantly engaging musicality”. LA Times, Mark Swed, 27th March 2018
https://www.nicolashodges.com/
Composer Evan Johnson:
On the 3rd of November, the venerable Nicolas Hodges premieres the piece I’ve at long last written for him at the Orgelpark in Amsterdam, which coincidentally happens to be two and a half kilometers from my house.
“A fountain” is a set of 4 pieces floating, mostly but not entirely in an abstract sense, around the Ciconia virelai “Sus un’ fontayne”. There are parts of it with quite a lot of notes. There are also parts with almost no notes at all. There is a first-inversion F-minor triad, which I seem to be unable to avoid stumbling upon, “Where’s Waldo”-style, in almost everything I’ve written with piano.
(This is also, in the sort of thoroughly abstracted and oblique sense I’m used to working in anyway, my homage to the late Harrison Birtwistle (1934-2022), with whom Nic’s artistic life was tightly bound up)