April 19, 2009: Los Angeles

A new solo piano work written for pianist Mark Robson, commissioned by Piano Spheres, to be premiered on April 19 of 2009 at Zipper Hall, during Piano Spheres' 15th season.

 

August 1, 2008: Vienna

Three Movements for Solo Piano performed by Tzimon Barto at the Spanische Hofreitschule, as part of the Wiener Klavier Sommer 2008.

 

July 18- August 17, 2008: Aspen

New works to be presented at the Aspen Music Festival.

 

May 22, 2008: New York

Whirlwind for two mechanical pianos and computer at Yamaha Artist Services Piano Salon, 689 Fifth Avenue, Third Floor, NYC, Thursday, May 22, at 7:30 p.m, a concert curated by composer Gordon Green. Free admission. For reservations call 212 339-9995 ext. 0.

About Whirlwind:

In this piece, the first section, the most dense of them all, immerses the listener into a slow-changing, large harmonic block with most of the activity centered in the middle range of the keyboards while the peripheral registers of the pianos focus on fragmented clouds of notes that escape the gravity of the middle-range action. As a transition to the following section, the mid-register counterpoint slowly reaches over the extremities, and the second section is clearly introduced with the drop of the peripheral registers, and the appearance of new melodic motives in the middle range of the keyboards. From this moment on until the end, the piece unfolds as a large tapestry of intricate counterpoint evolving as a whirlwind of motives, spinning out, and finally dissolving itself into a reversed funnel of counterpoint.

 

April 30, 2008: Bellinzona

Three Movements for Solo Piano performed by Tzimon Barto at the Teatro Sociale as part of Pianoforte a Bellinzona 2008 (Switzerland) .

 

April 28, 2008: Prague

Three Movements for Solo Piano performed by Tzimon Barto at the Rudolfinum/Dvorak Hall of the Czech Philharmonic.

 

March 28 and 29, 2008: Los Angeles

Computer music work Artificial Life: The New Generation at the Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey concerts.

 

March 15 and 16, 2008: Eustis

Three Movements for Solo Piano performed by Tzimon Barto at the Bay State Theatre, 109 North Bay Street, Eustis, Florida.

 

March 14, 2008: Eustis

Three Movements for Solo Piano awarded the II International Barto Prize (juried by Tobias Picker, composer, USA, Tzimon Barto, pianist, USA, Wolfgang Rihm, composer, Germany, Bright Cheng, composer, China and USA, and Marc-André Dalbavie, composer, France).

From the Orlando Sentinel: "It is very kinetic," Barto said. "It's a brilliant piece. The first and third movements are extremely energetic, very sophisticated. The second movement is very beautiful, like a cloud of harmonies."

 

February 20, 2008: Chicago

Imaginary Folk-Tunes, version for violin and guitar, with members of the Formalist String Quartet, Mark Menzies and Andrew Tholl (violin), and guest Michael Kudirka (guitar) and at FLATFILE galleries in Chicago.

 

February 14-March 10, 2008: New Smyrna Beach

Associate artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida.

 

February 10, 2008: Portugal

Orquestra do Algarve conducted by Laurent Wagner performs The Fact of the Matter as a Matter of Fact at the Arena d´Évora.

 

February 1, 2 and 3, 2008: Portugal

Orquestra do Algarve conducted by José Miguel Rodilla premieres The Fact of the Matter as a Matter of Fact, a three movement orchestral work. Concerts on Friday (Feb. 1) 21:30, Salão Paroquial da Igreja de Sagres; Saturday (Feb. 2) 21:30, Cine-Teatro Louletano, Loulé; Sunday (Feb. 3) 12.00, Teatro das Figuras, Faro.

Listen here to the last movement (Feb. 2).

 

December 6, 2007

The American Composers Forum awarded Chinese pianist Lei Weng and Patricio da Silva an Encore Grant. Mr. Weng will be performing Three Movements for Solo Piano during his 2008-09 solo recitals in the US and China.