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Pierre Boulez
Live performances by Andrew Infanti
French composer and conductor, Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) is a towering figure in contemporary art music.
Andrew Infanti presents a wide range of his pianistic production from his earliest works in the 1940’s to late works around the turn of the 21st Century. (continue reading …)
Première Sonate
Live performance by Andrew Infanti.
Composed in 1946, when the composer was only 19 years of age, the First (of three) Piano Sonata is a surprisingly assured work, alternating sensuous sonorities and brutal attacks on the instrument.
I : Lent, beaucoup plus allant
II : Assez large, rapide, modéré
Structures, II, 1er chapitre
Live duo performance by Andrew Infanti with Jung-Hee Shin.
Composed between 1954 and 1961, the second book of Structures for two pianos contains two “chapters.” The first chapter, applying strict serial principles, plays with the resonance of the instruments in dialogue, highlighted by the sumptuous acoustics of New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall.
Incises (version 1994)
Live performance by Andrew Infanti.
This small virtuoso work was composed for a piano competition in 1994 before being spectacularly expanded into the 40-minute nonet Sur Incises, winner of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in 1998.
Sonatine pour flûte et piano
Live duo performance by Andrew Infanti with Joanna Demers.
The work was published in 1945 and models itself closely on Arnold Schönberg’s Chamber Symphony Op. 9. The young Boulez tries his hand at academic forms to push them to their limits.
