A compact disc, Don’t Panic: 60 Seconds for Piano is scheduled to be released on Wergo records in Germany this Spring. U.S distribution will be through Harmonia Mundi.

Pianist Guy Livingston graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1988 and received his Masters Degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1991. While at the Conservatory, 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. In 1997, Guy was awarded the post-graduate U. M. diploma from the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands.

In recent seasons, Mr. Livingston’s appearances have included the Centre Pompidou, Auditorium du Louvre, the American Embassy (Paris), the Moscow Conservatory, the H.B Thom Theater (South Africa), the Zalla Florianska (Krakow), Frontiera (Pisa), the ADeVantegarde Festival (Munich), Octobre-Normandie, MusicaVoix, and Musiques Actions (France). In Holland he has performed solo at the Zaal de Unie, the Stedelijk Museum, the Utrecht Conservatory, the Korzo, and De IJsbreker. Guy Livingston performs frequently in New York City at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, the Cooper Union, the Knitting Factory, the Museum of the City of New York and the Miller Theater at Columbia University. Last summer he performed the Shostakovitch First Piano Concerto on tour in Bordeaux with the Orchestre de La Gironde.

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. An avant-garde piece about the Brooklyn Dodgers requested from New York composer Annie Gosfield in 1997 was written up in Sports Illustrated. Guy was awarded the "Rose of Munich" for his contribution to Bavarian cultural life in 1999. The Münchner Merkur wrote: “ Rarely is contemporary music as varied, rich and captivating.”

Livingston is a co-founder of the innovative new music group, The Newt Hinton Ensemble, with whom he has toured Germany, Holland and France. Additionally, Guy is the publisher of the digital magazine Paris Transatlantic, devoted to new and unusual music, located at . Guy is also the presiding secretary of Les Amis de George Antheil, a society established in France for the promotion and performance of the works of the 1920s avant-garde composer. On January 31st, 2000, Livingston premieres the “lost” First Piano Concerto with pianist Ivo Kaltchev at the Cooper Union. In February of 2001 he will re-premiere Antheil’s Second Piano Concerto with the Radio Chamber Orchestra of the Netherlands.

Ann Elizabeth Lyon

Ann Elizabeth Lyon has been acting since the seventh grade and has studied at The Juilliard School and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Ann Elizabeth was last seen at The Miranda Theatre in “Not Just Immediate Family,” a new play, and in the independent film “Joint Adventure.” Favorite roles include Viola in “Twelfth Night,” Laura Wingfield in “The Glass Menagerie,” Ruth in “Wonderful Town,” and Mrs. Malaprop in “The Rivals.” Ann Elizabeth Lyon and Guy Livingston went to high school together in Knoxville, Tennessee.