PIANO DIALOGUES

Grammy-nominated pianist Adam Tendler performs Béla Bartók’s complete Mikrokosmos in a landmark theatrical recital led by critically-acclaimed director Mary Birnbaum. A comprehensive piano method and audacious survey of a composer’s own evolution, Mikrokosmos begins with a single five-finger scale and leads — through 153 movements — to the vibrant language of Bartók’s mature voice. A “daring pianist” praised for his “adventurousness and muscular skill” (The New York Times), Adam Tendler has been called “the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene” (Minnesota Star Tribune), “relentlessly adventurous” (The Washington Post), a “remarkable and insightful musician” (Los Angeles Times) and an “intrepid… maverick pianist” (The New Yorker). This program will be the first time Tendler performs Mikrokosmos in its complete form, and the world premiere of this theatrical realization by Mary Birnbaum.