Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 8:00 PM @ The DiMenna Center in New York City, Lisa Moore will World Premiere her new CD: Julián De La Chica’s Preludes Op. 8 (For piano and synthesizer) produced and published by Brooklyn based, independent record label, Irreverence Group Music (IGM). For the first part of the concert, Ms. Moore chose works by American composer Philip Glass: Etude No. 2,  Metamorphosis II and Satyagraha Act III, Conclusion. Australian pianist Lisa Moore has been described as “brilliant and searching… beautiful and impassioned… lustrous at the keyboard” (The New York Times), “visionary” and “New York’s queen of avant-garde piano” (The New Yorker).
Moore will perform Preludes Op. 8 with composer De La Chica on synthesizer.

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Lisa Moore
Photo by Hassan Malik

7:15 pm – Doors open
8:00 pm – Concert
$25 (General) – $45 (includes CD) in-advance
$30 (General) – $50 (Includes CD) at the door

“Julian’s music is unique and beautiful. It is unabashedly tonal. It is open, warm, inviting, and beguiling. Julian stretches time, easing pace while using clear, simple, tender melodies that line the air and sculpt edges across open harmonic spaces. His gentle blend of piano and synthesizer makes cushioned swirling textures that seem to coax memory and imagery. The music is soothing and consoling, yet at the same time it contains a mysterious complexity. I like to simplify things, especially as I grow older. This music struck me with a clarity and a quieter pace than most of the high energy tour de force repertoire I have come to be known for. It was a relief to hear and record.”
— Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore & Julián De La Chica
Photo by Hassan Malik

Music Notes

Lisa Moore’s repertoire and discography include a wide range of piano literature, from baroque to modern – where experimental music, minimalism, and post-minimalism play a important role. Her oeuvre continues to grow with the addition of this album, dedicated to New York-based Colombian composer Julián De La Chica’s Preludes Op. 8 for piano and synthesizer.

About these works, the author says: “The Op. 8 cycle is a process that improvises the image that is absent. The hidden image creates emotion, truth and reality… The Preludes are an exploration of another kind of virtuosity… the virtue of sound. What lies behind, what we do not see.”

The composer proposes ideas, then Lisa Moore’s performance creates a dialogue between those ideas and her performance and sound development. Essentially, what the score does not say exists in Lisa Moore’s unique sound as a pianist, and is what invites us to listen to these Preludes within our living time.

Susan Campos Fonseca, PhD.
Musicologist and composer

Lisa Moore
Photo by Hassan Malik

Program

Philip Glass: Piano works
– Etude No. 2 – Metamorphosis II – Satyagraha Conclusion. Act III. Intermission (Approx. 10’) Julián De La Chica: Preludes Op. 8 (*)
– No. 1 – No. 3 – No. 5 – No. 6
Intermission (Approx. 10’)
– No. 9 – No. 10 – No. 11 – No. 13

Lisa Moore (Piano)Julián De La Chica (Synth)
(*) World Premier

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