GRAMMY-nominated pianist Daniel Schlosberg and composer-pianist Shi-An Costello unite to perform new and contemporary works on both solo piano and piano four hands, illuminating the influences of Johann Sebastian Bach and earlier musics on the work of contemporary composers and musicians.

This concert features Hungarian composer György Kurtág‘s one-of-a-kind four-hand piano transcriptions of works by Guillaume de Machaut, Orlando di Lasso, Girolamo Frescobaldi and J.S. Bach, often adding his own sensibilities of playfulness, serenity and wonder into his translations of these old works he so admired.

In addition to four-hand works, Daniel Schlosberg will perform solo works “Prelude” from Suite III by Jean Henri d’Anglebert, David Clay Mettens‘s Through a Silvered Morning (2023), “Black Hole” from Amy Wurtz‘s Cyclature: 26 Cycles for Piano (2021), and Schlosberg’s own piano transcription of Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Francisco Tárrega; Shi-An Costello will perform selections of his own compositions The Orient (2023), Reappearance (2022), his own piano arrangements of J.S. Bach‘s Cello Suites, and Arvo Pärt‘s 1976 work, Für Alina. Schlosberg and Costello both will give the world premiere of Costello’s Prelude, Chorale et Prelude for piano four hands, written for Schlosberg and the occasion.

Full Concert Program (order is subject to change)
Guillaume de MACHAUT/György KURTÁG: Kyrie I
Orlando di LASSO/KURTÁG: Qui sequitur me
Girolamo FRESCOBALDI/KURTÁG: Corrente III
Girolamo FRESCOBALDI/KURTÁG: Corrente IV
J.S. BACH/KURTÁG: Sonatina from Actus Tragicus Cantata
J.S. BACH/KURTÁG: O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig
J.S. BACH/KURTÁG: Christum wir sollen loben schon: Adagio
Shi-An COSTELLO: Prelude, Chorale and Prelude (world premiere)
Shi-An Costello & Daniel Schlosberg, piano four hands

Jean Henri d’ANGLEBERT: “Prelude” from Suite III
David Clay METTENS: Through a Silvered Morning (2023)
Amy WURTZ: “Black Hole” from Cyclature: 26 Cycles for Piano (2021)
Francisco TÁRREGA/SCHLOSBERG: Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Daniel Schlosberg, piano 

J.S. BACH/COSTELLO: Cello Suite No. 1, BWV 1007
COSTELLO: The Orient (2023): IV. Vincent
COSTELLO: Reappearance (2022)
Arvo PÄRT: Für Alina (1976)
Shi-An Costello, piano