Cristina Valdés - 20th and 21st Century Piano Music
Pianist Cristina Valdés will perform a program of 20th and 21st Century Piano Music. The program will include music by Robert Platz, Helmut Lachenmann, Giacinto Scelsi, and Jonathan Harvey.
Committed to both contemporary and standard repertoire, Cristina Valdés is known for presenting innovative concerts with repertoire ranging from Bach to Xenakis. She has performed across four continents and in multiple venues including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, Miller Theatre, Jordan Hall and the Kennedy Center. Her passionate interest in new music has led to collaborations with a multitude of composers including Terry Riley, Joan Tower, Ezra Laderman, Morton Subotnick, Richard Karpen, Wayne Horvitz, and Carlos Sanchez- Gutierrez. Festival performances include New Music in Miami, the Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva in Mexico City, the Brisbane Arts Festival, the Festival of Contemporary Music in El Salvador, Theater de Welt in Stuttgart, the Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, and the Singapore Arts Festival among others.
An avid chamber musician, Cristina has toured extensively with the Bang On a Can “All Stars” and has performed with the Seattle Chamber Players, the Mabou Mines Theater Company, the Parsons Dance Company, Trio V, and Antares. She has also performed as concerto soloist with the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, the Binghamton Philharmonic, Philharmonia Northwest, the Eastman BroadBand, and the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, she performed the piano solo part of the Ives 4th Symphony with the Seattle Symphony. Cristina can be heard on the Newport Classics, Albany, and Innova labels.
She holds degrees from the New England Conservatory and SUNY Stony Brook, and is currently Artist in Residence piano faculty at the University of Washington.
This concert is in part funded by the Goethe-Institut.
The concert will be followed by a reception.