Margaret Leng Tan

Margaret Leng Tan Premieres Extended Piano Works at Merkin Hall

Gig Alerts | Apr 25, 2018

New Sounds Live/Ecstatic Music Festival:
Margaret Leng Tan Premieres Extended Piano Works at Merkin Hall
Tickets: $20-25. Show at 7:30PM, Thursday, April 26.

Margaret Leng Tan is a virtuoso pianist and the music world’s first virtuoso player of the toy piano. Margaret Leng Tan performs a major new work by George Crumb, and Ecstatic Music Festival-commissioned works by Kelly Moran and Suzanne Farrin. Works by John Cage and Toby Twining for piano, prepared piano, and toy piano round out the show. This show is part of our New Sounds Live concert series at Merkin Hall

Here's "Satie Blues," by Toby Twining, as played by Maragaret Leng Tan on both piano and toy piano, recorded live in Melbourne, 2002. 

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