With its Sinfonia India, the Mexican Chavez gives a new life to the songs of the Huichol, Yaqui and Seri tribe Indians. For his part, Ginastera depicts the pampas of his native Argentina and its gauchos. Further north, Gershwin, “classical jazz” music, dazzles by his crossbred music that will be electrified by Francesco Tristano.
Author: adriana
FT piano recital @ Alte Oper Frankfurt
After the successful premiere of Francesco Tristano’s Island Nation: Free Piano Concerto with the MDR Symphony under the baton of Kristjan Järvi at Gewandhaus Leipzig last Saturday, FT is due to perform a solo piano recital at Frankfurt Alte Oper on Friday, March 11. Francesco will perform works of Frescobaldi, Bach, Stravinsky, and Tristano.
FT April 2016 dates
Francesco Tristano is scheduled to play the following halls:
- 01/04 – FT live ! The Art Room by Bombay Sapphire @ MACBA. Barcelona, ES
- 02/04 – FT live ! The Art Room by Bombay Sapphire @ MACBA. Barcelona, ES
- 06/04 – soloist w/Orchestre National de Lille @ Auditorium du Nouveau Siècle. Lille, FR
- 07/04 – soloist w/Orchestre National de Lille @ Auditorium du Nouveau Siècle. Lille, FR
- 08/04 – lunch concert – piano recital @ Nouveau Siècle. Lille, FR
- 08/04 – soloist w/Orchestre National de Lille @ Bateau Feu. Dunkerque, FR
- 15/04 – soloist w/Zuger Sinfonietta @ Cholerhalle. Zug, CH
- 17/04 – duo w/Bruce Brubaker @ Gaité Lyrique. Paris, FR
- 20/04 – KST play Afrodiziak @ Atelier. Luxembourg, LU
- 22/04 – FT live ! @ Dachstock. Bern, CH
- 23/04 – FT live ! @ Rote Sonne. Munich, DE
- 24/04 – FT live ! @ Opificio. Terni, IT
Island Nation @ Boiler Room
Boiler Room will stream the world premiere of Francesco Tristano’s Piano Concerto: Island Nation live from the Gewandhaus Leipzig with the MDR Symphony conducted by Kristjan Jarvi, and FT at the piano.
Drawing inspiration from a recent trip to an unnamed island nation, FT’s free piano concerto is free inasmuch as the piano part is only written down in part and leaves considerable space open for improvisation.
The piano takes on the identity of a free island nation surrounded by the ocean – the orchestra – which in turn provides the laws, harmonic and rhythmic, that rule the structure and evolution of the three movements. This is FT’s first composition for large orchestra since 1997.
