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Jonathan Biss' Album of New Piano Works Features Alvin Singleton's Bed-Stuy Sonata

Oct. 29, 2026

Jonathan Biss Plays New Piano Works, released last week on Orchid Classics, features three new solo piano commissions, including Alvin Singleton's Bed-Stuy Sonata, alongside Tyson Gholston Davis' ...Expansions of Light and Tyshawn Sorey's For Anthony Braxton.

Jonathan Biss gave the world premiere performance of Singleton's Bed-Stuy Sonata in March 2025 at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts in Scottsdale, AZ and has performed the work throughout the US. Bed-Stuy Sonata was co-commissioned for Jonathan Biss by San Francisco Performances, the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.


Jonathan Biss performs Alvin Singleton's Bed-Stuy Sonata

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Alvin Singleton
Bed-Stuy Sonata (2024)
for piano solo
15'

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