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expanding the definition of a piano duo @sarahgibsoncomp & @ThomasKotcheff members @PianoSpheres core artist

[PianoSpheres @PianoSpheres]

🎵 SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT! 🎵

Piano Spheres announces our 29th season, featuring 9 electrifying concerts produced in collaboration with Angel City Jazz Festival, LA Philharmonic California Festival, CAP UCLA / Nimoy Theater, 2220 Arts and Archives, and the Colburn School!

[HOCKET @HOCKETensemble]

🚨🎥🚀 NEW VIDEO ALERT!! 🚀🎥🚨

Alexander Elliott Miller || Aftermath || performed by HOCKET & Miller

Commissioned for HOCKET’s 2021 Composer/Performer Initiative. @louisng Director/Sound Engineer

https://t.co/A9eKAfO5Zo

[PianoSpheres @PianoSpheres]

@hocketensemble loves to stretch the definition of what it means to be a pianist, often employing other keyboard instruments like toy piano and melodica, but also by playing them in ways that (most) pianists can't. Here's a snippet of @thomaskotcheff's "wgah'nagl fhtagn"...

[PianoSpheres @PianoSpheres]

Piano Spheres is grateful to @NewMusicUSA and @Roulette_NYC for making our May 9th concert at Roulette possible! Come see @hocketensemble, Vicki Ray, Aron Kallay and Mark Robson play the music of LA composers: (cont.)

[HOCKET @HOCKETensemble]

🎵 Off to @AtlantaSymphony Youth Orchestra to premiere @SarahGibsonComp ‘s fantasy for two pianos and orchestra! 🎵 see you Sunday at 3pm!!!

[PianoSpheres @PianoSpheres]

@Roulette_NYC Please help us by contributing to our campaign to send Core Artists: @HOCKETensemble (@sarahgibsoncomp & @thomaskotcheff), @aronkallay, Vicki Ray and Mark Robson to New York for these exciting concerts in May 2023. Any contribution will help, and even better if you can share!

[PianoSpheres @PianoSpheres]

Piano Spheres is bringing the music of Southern California composers to New York's historic @Roulette_NYC, and the music of Frederick Rzewski to Merkin Hall!

https://t.co/3wtfdqHwK4

[PianoSpheres @PianoSpheres]

Tomorrow at 8pm! Emerging Artist Leonard Hayes plays Thayer Hall for a program of music by Walker, Price, Ndodana-Breen, Perkinson, Brahms, E. Marsalis and Bonds.

Hear Hayes perform Margaret Bonds below (brought to you by the team at the Santa Monica Symphony)...

[HOCKET @HOCKETensemble]

TONIGHT!!! 8pm @ Zipper Hall!

[PianoSpheres @PianoSpheres]

Tickets are going fast! HOCKET takes Colburn's Zipper Hall tonight at 8pm, for a program of new premieres, music by Cage and Yoko Ono, and oh - did we mention that we'll be joined by the icarus Duo, Matt Keown and Jeff Stern?

https://t.co/wfFHDzW5sS

[Thomas Kotcheff @ThomasKotcheff]

The piano 2 preparations for @HOCKETensemble’s @PianoSpheres concert! Jan 24 at Zipper Hall, @ColburnSchool

[HOCKET @HOCKETensemble]

THIS TUESDAY! John Cage’s rarely performed “Three Dances” for two prepared pianos and three new commissions for these instruments PLUS icarus duo is joining us 🥁 DM for code for $5 tix!!!

[PianoSpheres @PianoSpheres]

@HOCKETensemble hard at work putting together their program! Maybe you can see why this piece is rarely performed...

See this and more by Kotcheff, Gibson, Yoko Ono and Peter Shin on Tuesday Jan 24 at Zipper!

https://t.co/wfFHDzW5sS

[PianoSpheres @PianoSpheres]

"-including screws, pennies, rubber, plastic, weather stripping, and various bolts and nuts. The piece was commissioned by the piano duo Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale."

See @HOCKETensemble perform Three Dances on Jan 24, Zipper Hall!

https://t.co/wfFHDzW5sS

[PianoSpheres @PianoSpheres]

Piano Spheres presents The Keys: Volume I - Extended Piano Techniques with @HOCKETensemble is out now! Check it out below.

https://t.co/GjEwIPXhYJ

[PianoSpheres @PianoSpheres]

Last year, we filmed a series of videos on the different expressive capabilities of the piano; on the keys, on the strings, and more. Check out the trailer below, the first part featuring @HOCKETensemble drops next week!

https://t.co/8Vfbrqe1Vx

[Alex Weiser @AWeiserComposer]

Thanks to Tyler Kline @sound_assembler + Classical #WSMR for featuring my new release with @HOCKETensemble / @BrightShinythgs! Tune in Sunday 8-10 ET on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9 or streaming at https://t.co/ScllwUQQGP.

[HOCKET @HOCKETensemble]

For Your GRAMMY Consideration!! #What2020SoundsLike — best classical compendium; @AWeiserComposer Water Hollows Stone — best chamber music/small ensemble performance!

[PianoSpheres @PianoSpheres]

On Oct 18 at Thayer Hall, you'll see quite a few keyboards on stage, including a bitKlavier, a "prepared digital piano" is an open-source project developed by Dan Trueman and others at Princeton.

Learn more:
https://t.co/H8Beg2Ca5K
Tickets here!
https://t.co/1hE4mIicp9

[Alex Weiser @AWeiserComposer]

🚀🎹🚨🎹🚀Today’s the day! 🚀🎹🚨🎹🚀
WATER HOLLOWS STONE is now out and available to stream, download, and purchase in all of the usual places. @HOCKETensemble @BrightShinythgs

[HOCKET @HOCKETensemble]

Pre-order Alex’s album feat. HOCKET!!! You don’t want to miss this gorgeous music! 🚀🚀🚀

[Alex Weiser @AWeiserComposer]

Today is @Bandcamp Friday, and my new EP "water hollows stone" with @HOCKETensemble, @BrightShinythgs is coming out in *one week* — it's the perfect time to pre-order your copy if you haven't yet! Looking forward to sharing this music with everyone! https://t.co/CcSJUVnYmL

[PianoSpheres @PianoSpheres]

On Oct 18, the second of our Emerging Artists hits Thayer Hall; Daniel Newman-Lessler's Transparent Animals is a collection of pieces for acoustic and digital pianos, voice, fixed media, and live processing, and includes 13 pieces by composers from Peter Ablinger to Pamela Z.