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.
“Francesco Tristano’s “free” improvised Piano Concerto was a brilliantly received example of how classical music is able to excite audiences today. Standing ovations.” Leipziger Volkszeitung 7 March 2016.
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.
