Tomas Bächli and Gertrud Schneider will perform Tom Johnson's Symmetries for two pianos as an ongoing installation interspersed with concerts of piano music by Debussy, Satie, Kurtág and Zimmerlin

Claude Debussy: Six épigraphes antiques
Tom Johnson: Symmetries (excerpts)
György Kurtág: Jatekok (Plays), Volume VIII (excerpts)
Erik Satie: Trois morceaux en forme de poire
Alfred Zimmerlin: Klavierstück VIII

The Swiss pianists Gertrud Schneider and Tomas Bächli have been playing together for twenty years. A unique piano duo, they play piano four hands, on two pianos in traditional tuning, and on two pianos in quarter tone tuning for which they have developed a large repertory. Among the pieces they've premiered are works by James Tenney, György Kurtág, Susan Parenti and Alfred Zimmerlin.

This installation/concert was made possible, in part, by the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia.

[top]