Hello and welcome back to our preview for our concert Spotlight Series: the Prepared Piano. This week we will explore the career of the composer and pianist, Fazil Say whose work, Black Earth will be performed at our concert Sunday March 22nd! Fazil Say was born in Ankara, Turkey and showed an enormous amount of potential at a young age being able to sound out various Turkish folk tunes and melodies. Recognizing his talents, his father quickly enrolled him in piano lessons wi

Hello again! Welcome to our preview series for our upcoming concert, The Prepared Piano with Tin Yi Chelsea Wong ! We wanted to do a bit of extra pre-insight for this cycle as the Prepared Piano is a very niche and cool pocket of the classical world! Everyone is familiar with a normal piano, but a Prepared  Piano is an umbrella term for a piano which has added… “hardware” to it. From the image above, you can see that the composer called for the addition of various screws and

Hi and welcome to our last preview of Tenth Muse! Concerts begin Saturday, February 15th. We hope this round of newsletters has been helpful in introducing you to our upcoming program! For our last preview, we will focus on Cooper Grosscup's inspiration for Tenth Muse,  Sappho. To read our previous post on Cooper, click here . Sappho's Life Sappho and Alcaeus, Sir Laweence Alma Tadema 1881 Sappho was an ancient Greek poet born approximately c.610. She specialized in lyric poe