Five Reasons to Listen to Livingston:

Guy Livingston played 'Traficante de Bananas' with the comic talent of a Buster Keaton . —Het Parool A great performance, visually and musically interesting. — NRC Handelsblad

'Antheil's Finest Keyboard Interpreter'
—Signal to Noise Magazine

'soloist Guy Livingston acquits himself with panache'
—Tempo Magazine

'a fine artist who deserves to be better known'
—David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

'a rousing performance'
—New Music Box

"An exceptionally agile and charismatic performer"
— LA Times

 

Upcoming Concerts:

Theatre Dunois (Paris). Ensemble Aleph 25th Anniversary Concert. May 31st.

July 13-26, 2008: UC Fresno (California): Recitals and Masterclasses with Ben Boone and the Kronos Quartet, as part of SummerArts....click to read about their programs, and to find out about enrolling (for young composers). Recital on July 18th.

Fresno Museum of Art. Dutch program. Date TBA.

Santa Cruz program TBA. July 27th.

Fondation des Etats-Unis. Elliott Carter Recital. October, TBA.

November Music November 16th. Verkade Fabriek. Premiere of "One Minute More"

Amsterdam, DVD release party - date TBA. "One Minute More"

Eindhoven, date TBA. "One Minute More"

Kunsthuis 13, Velp. November 23rd. "One Minute More"

Utrecht. Theater Kikker. Date TBA "One Minute More"

US/Canada Tour, Spring 2009.

Radio Show to launch in summer... (stay tuned)

contact Guy Livingston...

 

The recording and performance on this CD are both excellent, and Guy Livingston deserves praise for championing the works of a composer who is being forgotten today. — SEQUENZA 21 'dynamic performances and erudite scholarship' —NEW MUSIC BOX 'a masterful new recording' —Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare, December 2006

Backstage

sick of the official news? Want to see photos of the artist as a young man? Go backstage...

 

Recent Events

Zutphen 4 dada concerts, May 19th. Tour with the Ensemble Aleph and Verge Ensemble, April 20-27th: Loyola College (Baltimore); Ensemble Aleph: La Maison Française (Washington); Ensemble Aleph: Corcoran Gallery (Washington) ; Guy Livingston, solo: NYPL (New York City) May 3rd: Henry Cowell Portrait. ; Guy Livingston, solo: Chapelle du Bon Pasteur  (Montreal) May 12 , at 8pm: Carte Blanche à Guy Livingston. (Dada at the Movies)   Fondation suisse - Salon Le Corbussier. Dada Salon 11 Feb 2008 ... Atelier de la Main d'Or, Paris. November 17th. Piano 4-mains. Satie, Poulenc, Ndodana. 20h.....South Africa (Stellenbosch). January 2008. Satie 4 hands + Stravinsky 3 hands.... Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris. October 4th. Solo Recital. Free admission. Sixty Seconds 2: a sneak preview of some of the new one-minute pieces. 15 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, RER Cité Universitaire. 8:30pm....Kunsthuis 13, Velp, The Netherlands. November 11, 2007. Dada at the Movies...Festival de Cluny, July 7, 2007 (Solo Recital: Prokofiev 7th Sonata and Ives Concord Sonata);Musée d'Art Moderne, Strasbourg, June 20 [note new date], 2007 (Ciné qua Dada); Carte Blanche à Guy Livingston: Four concerts as guest director of the Ensemble Aleph and the Contemporary Music Forum, Theatre Dunois, Paris, May 25 & 26, 2007 (festivale de musique américaine) Read coverage of the concert: (ConcertoNet.com); DeLink, Tilburg, Netherlands, May 8 2007 (Dada at the Movies). Jury member, Orléans Concours de Musique Contemporaine - "Brin d'Herbe". March 2007; Association of Performing Arts Presentors (APAP), Fazioli Salon, New York City. January 22. Benefit concert for Bethesda Children's Red Cross Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, January 12, 2007. CD Release: Fall 2006, New World Records (Antheil 2nd Piano Concerto) (read reviews); South American Music Festival: MuziekGebouw, Bamzaal, Amsterdam, December 10, 2006. (Kagel, Arditto); Galerie Marzee: Nijmegen, December 17, 2006. ("The Shape of Music: Graphic Scores"); Benefit Concert for South African children. October 21, 2006...Dutch Design Days: Temporary Arts Center, Eindhoven (NL). October 22. (Dada at the Movies)...HOLLAND FESTIVAL, June 2006. Amsterdam, WestergasFabriek. Silent films and their original piano music. Artistic overview of the show. (or click here for program and tech requirements) "Dada at the Movies" ...Guy Livingston presents a Dada Cinémathèque: silent films of the 1920's, with live music at the piano, reconstructed from the originals. (see video clips) CLUNY FESTIVAL: July 8, 9, and 10th, 2006: Cluny (Burgundy), France. Chamber music (Weill, Stroë, Kagel, Ravel, Brahms) GHENT DAYS PIANO FESTIVAL: July 20th, Ghent, Belgium: Dada at the Movies. THEATRE DUNOIS: June 3rd, 2006, Paris: Chamber music (Stroë, Antheil)...Academie Musicale de Villecroze (Var), France: April 14, 2006 (piano duo performances)...Robeco Kasteel Concert April 4...SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR: March 12-17, 2006 (Cape Town, Johanessburg, Pietermaritzburg)...Miller Theater, New York City on Oct 7th, 2005....Philadelphia Virtuosi on Oct 9th...Manheim, Germany on Nov 7th...Bergen, Netherlands on Nov 18th...Amsterdam Nov 27th, 2005.

 

Guy on DVD

MAY 2006, BOSTON: Guy Livingston features as a scholar and pianist in the documentary "Bad Boy Made Good." Covering the genesis and rebirth of Antheil's Ballet mécanique, the film is available at Amazon.com and Antheil.org. Watch a video trailer (3Mb) in quicktime.

Dada at the Movies: Interview with Guy Livingston, backstage in Amsterdam. (9Mb)

"Brilliantissime"
— Journale Cluny-Macon

"An exceptionally agile and charismatic performer"
— LA Times

"A fine rich piano sound; Livingston's playing is highly accomplished"
— BBC Music Magazine

Repertoire 2008-09

Theatrical One-Man Shows

Bad Boy of Music, scenes from Antheil's life in Paris and Hollywood
Don't Panic: One Minute More — new version begins touring in autumn 2008, DVD release 2008
John Cage in a Bathtub (unpredictable music and anecdotes)
Dada at the Movies (avant-garde silent films of the 1920s, with live music)

Piano Recitals

Music and Politics
Sweet 'n Sour, the music of Boulez and Monk
Prokofiev Sonatas and Visions Fugitives
Henry Cowell Portrait
Ives Concord Sonata
All-Cage Program
George Antheil, The Lost Piano Sonatas
The Late Beethoven Sonatas
L'impressionisme improvisé de Debussy, Poulenc et Ravel

Links: Backstage with Guy | Dada at the Movies | 60 Seconds for Piano

Management

Latitude 45 Arts Management
Barbara Scales
info@latitude45arts.com 109, boul. St-Joseph Ouest Montréal (Quebec) Canada H2T 2P7
Tel: (514) 276-2694 Fax: (514) 849-0755

Contact Guy Livingston

Mr. Livingston also gives piano lessons and chamber music coaching, in Paris and Amsterdam.

NJN¹s State of the Arts: "The New, New Thing" aired on August 17, at 8:30 PM & August 22, at 11:30 PM. Music of Antheil, with interviews and performances by Guy Livingston.

 

hot off the presses:

Aleph, Verge Ensembles
The Verge Ensemble, the adventurous new-music group in residence at the Corcoran Gallery, joined forces with the Paris-based Ensemble Aleph on Friday for a concert at the Embassy of France that demonstrated the value of trans-Atlantic cooperation in areas beyond mere trade and politics. Mingling their personnel, the two groups gave a nod to the past with a graceful reading of Ravel's Piano Trio in A Minor, but focused on edgier works written in the last decade or two.
The composer Ken Ueno amplifies traditional instruments to uncover new worlds of sound, and his "Contemplation on Little Big Muff" gave Christophe Roy's amplified cello a strange and unsettling intensity, probing into sustained tones and building drama from the timbral textures that were revealed. There were few concessions to loveliness, but the piece had a fascinating, elemental power that resonated long after it ended.
More immediately delectable were the two "Recitations" by French composer George Aperghis, sung with charming delicacy by the elfin soprano Monica Jordan. Light, playful works for solo voice, they hover somewhere between song and sound poetry, drawing on a range of effects from birdlike fluttering to deep-voiced growls.
A lullaby with a war scene in it is an intriguing idea, but Paolo Prestini's "As Sleep Befell" -- while often lovely -- never quite gelled, drifting instead through a landscape of soft edges and earnest intentions. Dominique Clement's "Let's Go" was more colorful, incorporating taped snatches of film dialogue into a lively, lilting piece. But "After Midnight, Before Dawn" by Christopher Culpo was the real gem of the evening. Written for string quartet with two percussionists, it's a strikingly vivid work that explores the elusive worlds of sleeping and dreaming, to hallucinogenic effect.
-- Stephen Brookes, Washington Post