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Watch All 73 Performances from Petrushka Project Online

Aug. 09, 2012

Now, all performances from Petrushka Project, the unprecedented international live concert and commissioning initiative, presented by Schott Music, are viewable on the Petrushka Project website www.petrushka-project.com. The videos include all performances from recitals in New York, London, Beijing, and Mainz and the collection affords a rare and unique opportunity to hear a huge variety of new international piano music, 73 new works to be exact. Interested customers and music fans can download sheet music and get further information and details on all the new compositions commissioned as a part of Petrushka Project from www.petrushka-project.com as well.

Soloists Christopher McKiggan and Michael Brown performed 21 of the new works on the program at Juilliard's Paul Hall. Mr. McKiggan premiered works by Robert Beaser, Hans-Jürgen von Bose, Gavin Bryars, Viktor Ekimovsky, Atsuhiko Gondai, Ryo Kunihiko, Thomas Larcher, Emile Naoumoff, Howard Shore, Peteris Vasks, Stewart Wallace and Harald Weiss. Mr. Brown performed works by Chaya Czernowin, Andrew Norman, Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska, Bernard Rands, Benjamin Schweitzer, Alvin Singleton, Viktor Suslin, Morton Subotnick, Yoji Yuasa and Jing Zhou.

Composers whose music was featured on the international recital programs include Tobias Picker, Joseph Schwantner, Gerald Barry, John Casken, Peter Eötvös, Kenneth Hesketh, Heinz Holliger, Olli Mustonen, Christian Jost, Rodion Shchedrin, Valentin Silvestrov and Jörg Widmann.

 www.petrushka-project.com

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