Feb 11
Masterclass with Grammy Award winner Gloria Cheng, piano
Featured in the Matrix Trilogy, Star Wars and many more blockbuster movies, guest artist Gloria Cheng will lead a piano masterclass.
According to The Boston Globe, 'Cheng is an authority on modern piano music, having premiered works that run the aesthetic gamut from Terry Riley to Pierre Boulez.' Cheng's recitals and recordings depict wide-ranging tastes across the contemporary landscape and often explore significant interconnections between composers. Her 2008 Piano Music of Esa-Pekka Salonen, Steven Stucky, and Witold Lutosławski (Telarc) captured the Grammy for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance without Orchestra, and her 2013 release, The Edge of Light: Messiaen/Saariaho (harmonia mundi usa), was nominated for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. In 2015 she launched MONTAGE: Great Film Composers and the Piano, a CD featuring solo works composed for her by Bruce Broughton (Silverado, Young Sherlock Holmes), Don Davis (The Matrix, Beauty and the Beast), Alexandre Desplat (The Queen, Grand Budapest Hotel, Argo), Michael Giacchino (Up, Lost, Ratatouille), Randy Newman (Monsters, Inc, Toy Story), and John Williams (Star Wars, Jaws, E.T.).
The documentary film, MONTAGE: Great Film Composers and the Piano, chronicling the collaborations and recording process screens Thursday, Feb 9, at 7pm, in the Weitz Cinema and is followed by a solo performance.