Guest Artist Recital: Stephen Drury, piano

Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Charles Ives — Piano Sonata No. 1
Helmut Lachenmann — Serynade

Ives – First Sonata
Beethoven – Sonata Op. 109
Lachenmann – Serynade

Pianist and conductor Stephen Drury of the New England Conservatory has performed throughout the world with a repertoire that stretches from Bach to Liszt to the music of today. He has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Barbican Centre and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and from Arkansas to Seoul. A champion of contemporary music, he has taken the sound of dissonance into remote corners of Pakistan, Greenland and Montana.

 

Drury has commissioned new works for solo piano from John Cage, John Zorn, John Luther Adams, Terry Riley, and Chinary Ung with funding provided by Meet The Composer. He has performed with Zorn in Paris, Vienna, London, Brussels, and New York, and conducted Zorn's music in Bologna, Boston, Chicago, and in the UK and Costa Rica. In March of 1995 he gave the first performance of Zorn's concerto for piano and orchestra Aporias with Dennis Russell Davies and the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra. Later that same season he gave the premiere of Basic Training for solo piano, written for him by Lee Hyla.

He teaches at New England Conservatory, where he has directed festivals of the music of John Cage, Steve Reich, and Christian Wolff.

About Stephen Drury

http://www.stephendrury.com/