Awadagin Pratt, piano

PIANO DIALOGUES 100 Years of American Piano Music: Diary Winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition and an Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, pianist Awadagin Pratt has received acclaim for delivering “forceful, imaginative, and precisely tinted” performances (The Washington Post) and has been hailed as “one of the great and distinctive American pianists and conductors of our time” (WGBH Radio). Pratt sparks intimate and surprising connections across the decades in a program of music by Florence Price, Missy Mazzoli, Tyshawn Sorey, Julius Eastman and more, including a world premiere transcription by the pianist. FLORENCE PRICE – Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho GEORGE WALKER – Sonata No. 1, “Theme and Six Variations” R. NATHANIEL DETT – 8 Bible Vignettes LOU HARRISON – “Ground” from A Summerfield Set HENRY COWELL, JOHN CAGE & VIRGIL THOMSON – Party  pieces 3,4,10   WILLIAM GRANT STILL – Summerland MISSY MAZZOLI – The Night Ahead and No Real Fate TYSHAWN SOREY – Untitled JULIUS EASTMAN – Touch Him When           JUDD GREENSTEIN – First Ballade  FRED HERSCH – Nocturne for Left Hand Alone (For Sophia)     JEREMY JORDAN –  Keyboard Suite #1: Nocturne and chorale MIKAEL DARMANIE – Ritual BURLEIGH/PRATT – Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child