Guy Livingston
presents
“Sixty Seconds for Piano”
American Academy in Rome
November 14th, 2000
21h00
| Losing it Again | Daniel Landau is modifying a musical cement mixer in London. | |
| Two-Chord Warp | Joshua Cody wrote this piece while working for a carpet gallery in Paris. | |
| 59” of Piano | Jonathan Norton is from Menlo Park. | |
| 42 Second Piano | Isak Goldschneider is a linguistics expert. | |
| Wendigo | Jonathan Katz plays jazz in a Tokyo nightclub. | |
| Conflict of Interest | Richard Brooks directs Capstone Records in Brooklyn. | |
| Speed Study 1 | Dan Warburton writes and plays the violin, both acerbically. | |
| Ex tempore | Marek Zebrowski studied with Casadesus and Boulanger. | |
| 1’ de Tonio Kröger (op. 10) | Martial Robert is a composer and professor in Nantes. | |
| Tonal Imagery | Tuyet Tran runs a great website on the music of Vietnam. | |
| re: dance (PNMR) | Paul Beaudoin was teaching composition at Brandeis University. | |
| “Ha!” | Jerome Bourdellon claims this piece can be presented via submarine instead. | |
| Passatempo | Ricardo Vaglini went to the Middle East to record at Screaming Valley. | |
| réveil | D. Andrew Stewart fixed us dinner at Tanglewood. | |
| Step out of the Car | Roger Kleier is a New York City performer, guitarist and composer. | |
| Watermelon Revisited | T.J. Anderson was inspired by a street vendor’s song. | |
| Spangles | Christopher Culpo lives in Paris in the red light district. | |
| Moondrunk | Ketty Nez spent last year working at the IRCAM. | |
| DD (Double D) | Vanessa Lann had a wild skiing adventure in Switzerland. | |
| Theft | Lansing McLoskey came to composition via a rather unorthodox route. | |
intermission | ||
| im afraid you might ask for a fragment of my soul | Gene Pritsker shifted from violin to electric guitar. | |
| Cowboy Song | Charles Shadle is a member of the Choctaw Indian Nation. | |
| Message 1 | Stephie Buttrich created these messages with Marc Schots. | |
| Pièce | Stéphane Leach recently completed a Tristan Corbière song cycle. | |
| What if I just said... | Carl Faia lives in Paris and works at IRCAM. | |
| 60-second Ballet (for chickens) | William Bolcom teaches composition at Ann Arbor. | |
| rejection letter | Pierre Boulez is very famous and important, and lives in Paris. | |
| 2 homes, 1 garden | Bernhardt Weidner lives in Munich. | |
| Message 2 | Stephie Buttrich hails from Berlin. | |
| Saltarello for Guy | Giovanni Mancuso studied with Wally Rizzardo in Venice. | |
| Punch and Judy’s Waltz | Barbara Engel runs a radio show in Boston. | |
| Brooklyn, October 5, 1941 | Annie Gosfield never expected to be in Sports Illustrated. | |
| Database of Desire | James Baiye has been fired more than once. | |
| The piece that Webern wrote | Anders Jallen now works for AT+T in Amsterdam. | |
| Slant | Michel Pascal creates new electronic sounds in Nice. | |
| meditation | Derek Bermel plays a mean clarinet. | |
| Maybe Tomorrow | Newt Hinton was born in Inkster Michigan; wrote Haiku; raised pigs. | |
| Hammerklavier XI | Moritz Eggert wrote 60 pieces to be played in one minute. | |
Compact Disc
A compact disc, Don’t Panic: 60 Seconds for Piano is scheduled to be released on Wergo records in February 2001.
Biography
Pianist Guy Livingston holds degrees from Yale University and the New England Conservatory of Music, where he worked with, among others, composer John Cage and pianist Stephen Drury. In 1992 Guy moved to Paris for piano study with Professor Claude Helffer and then completed a post-graduate degree at the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands.
In recent seasons, Mr. Livingston has appeared at Lincoln Center, the Knitting Factory, De IJsbreker, the Louvre, and in Russia, Italy, Poland, Germany, and South Africa. He has performed at the festivals of Octobre-Normandie, MusicaVoix, and Musiques Actions (France), as well as in concerto appearances with the Orchestre de La Gironde and the Dutch Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Prizes and awards include: The Frank Huntington Beebe Scholarship, Fifth Prize at the 1995 Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition in Holland, the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship for study in Paris, finalist at the Sitges-Barcelona Concorso de Piano Segolo XX, semi-finalist at the 1998 Orléans International Piano Competition, and third prize at the 1996 Nuova Consonanza Piano Competition, Pescara, Italy. Guy was recently awarded a “Star of the Week” for his contribution to Munich cultural life. The Münchner Merkur wrote: “Rarely is contemporary music as varied, rich and captivating.”
Guy Livingston is also the presiding secretary of Les Amis de George Antheil, and has written extensively on Antheil, as well as performing numerous premieres of the futurist composer’s music.
Livingston lives in Paris, is represented in North America by Omicron Artist Management, and appears on the Konsequenza record label in Italy.