Thomas Piercy – Tokyo to New York 東京とNY" at Bargemusic Here & Now Series
$35
- Thomas Piercy, clarinet & hichiriki
- Marina Iwao, piano
- Aaron Wolff, cello
Tania León — Arenas d'un tiempo (for clarinet, cello, & piano)
Miho Sasaki — 黎明 – reimei – Dawn (for hichiriki, cello, & piano; composed for Thomas Piercy)
Michael Schelle — Kingfish Levinsky (world premiere; for clarinet, cello, & piano; composed for Thomas Piercy)
Emilio Teubal — The Offspring of MMXX (world premiere; for clarinet, cello, & piano; composed for Thomas Piercy)
Bargemusic: Here and Now Series presents "Thomas Piercy – 東京とNY" with Thomas Piercy, clarinet and ohichiriki; Aaron Wolff, cello; and Marina Iwao, piano. Works for clarinet and ohichiriki with cello and piano. World premieres composed for Thomas Piercy by composers Miho Sasaki, Mcihael Schelle, and Emilio Teubal; New York premiere by Dai Fujikura, and a masterpiece from 1992 from Pulitzer Prize-winner Tania Leon.
About Tokyo to New York
The "Tokyo to New York" concerts – under the direction of Thomas Piercy – include a wide variety of styles of music, from Japanese avant-garde to American contemporary classical, minimalism, neo-Romantic, tango-nuevo, J-pop, and jazz-influenced pieces. Since 2005, clarinetist and hichiriki player Thomas Piercy has lived in both NYC and Tokyo and has had the opportunity to work with many of the Japanese and American composers programmed in these concerts.
http://www.tonadaproductions.com/tokyo-to-new-york-home.htmlAbout Bargemusic
Moored in Brooklyn just under the Brooklyn Bridge, Bargemusic presents great music year-round. Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge into a “wonderfully intimate wood-paneled room with thrilling views of lower Manhattan and excellent acoustics.” Experience why critics call Bargemusic “the perfect chamber-music hall” and why artists say it is “unlike any other place in the world to perform.”
https://www.bargemusic.org/About Thomas Piercy, clarinet & hichiriki
Thomas Piercy is a critically acclaimed musician with orchestral, concerto, solo recital, and chamber music appearances throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Described by The New York Times as “Brilliant... playing with refinement and flair… evoking a panache in the contemporary works…,” Mr. Piercy presents audiences to varied and exciting concerts of standard classical music, jazz-inspired programs, contemporary works, pieces written specifically for him and his own original arrangements, compositions and collaborations.
Piercy's repertoire ranges from the Classical period to premieres of compositions written for him by some of the most outstanding composers of today, including Ned Rorem, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Jennifer Higdon, Fernando Otero, and Shoichi Yabuta.
http://www.thomaspiercy.com/