Adam Tendler, piano | “Inheritances”

Event details

  • Tuesday | May 7 | 7:30 PM
  • The Menil Collection
  • 1533 Sul Ross St Houston TX 77006
  • 713-524-5050 | boxoffice@dacamera.com

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Houston premiere

Music of Devonté Hynes, Nico Muhly, Laurie Anderson, inti figgis-vizueta, Pamela Z, Ted Hearne, Angélica Negrón, Christopher Cerrone, Marcos Balter, Missy Mazzoli, Darian Donovan Thomas, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Scott Wollschleger, Mary Prescott, Timo Andres and John Glover

After his father’s unexpected death, pianist Adam Tendler used his inheritance, a wad of cash received in a parking lot, to begin a commissioning project inviting a broad spectrum of sound artists and composers to create new piano works exploring the idea of ‘inheritance’ itself. Woven into one intimate program, these pieces tell a universal story of lineage, loss and place, and become a meditation on confronting our past while moving forward into the future. Adam Tendler is a recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists and won the 2022 Yvar Mikhashoff Prize.

“emotionally involving…musically rewarding… It was a joy to hear so much good music from so many contemporary artists.” — The New York Time

“currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene” — Minneapolis Star Tribune

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