Playing with balloons, wearing a mask, doing the Time Warp, dancing in a room filled with voices…sounds like a party! Kathleen Supové hosts a tribute to some friends Marita Bolles, Eric KM Clark, Jacob Cooper, Judy Dunaway, and Daniel Felsenfeld by performing world premieres of their multimedia piano works.
Marita Bolles: Debussy on Wagner
Eric KM Clark: Layerings 3 for piano
Jacob Cooper: La Plus Que Plus Que Lente
Judy Dunaway: For Piano with Balloons
Daniel Felsenfeld: Cakewalking (Sorry Claude)
1. Blandishments of the Young and Uniquely Handsome
2. To the Manor (Icarus Chained)
3. Golliwog Agonistes
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Kathleen Supové is one of America’s most acclaimed and versatile contemporary music pianists, known for continually redefining what a pianist/keyboardist/performance artist is, in today’s world. In May, 2012, she received the special John Cage Award from ASCAP for “the artistry and passion with which she performs, commissions, records, and champions the music of our time.” Recent projects include collaboration with SIDEBAND Laptop Orchestra, LEMUR musical robots, and her own DIGITAL DEBUSSY project. Her latest solo CD is THE EXPLODING PIANO, on the Major Who label. For more info, visitwww.supove.com, www.facebook.com/explodingpiano orwww.twitter.com/supove.