Dialogues with the Piano
10 September 2026
$10-$66
Service charge included
6 pm
Pre-Concert Chat
Topic: Programming and curation for artists on their journey to becoming Complete Artists
Speakers: Winston Choi, Jon Kimura Parker, and Élisabeth Pion
7 pm
Concert
Enjoy an evening blending live piano and digital performances. Using Steinway & Sons Spirio player piano technology, Winston Choi, Jon Kimura Parker, and Élisabeth Pion perform live alongside their own pre-recorded performance, creating layered musical dialogues where past and present coexist and voices multiply. This showcase of artists sharing the stage with their past selves is followed by an exploration of the expansive sounds of the piano.
Program
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Contrapunctus I, VI from The Art of the Fugue
Winston Choi
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Fugue
Carter Johnson
DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH Fugue
Carter Johnson
ALFRED SCHNITTKE Prelude and Fugue
Carter Johnson
GLENN GOULD So You Want to Write a Fugue
Winston Choi
WINSTON CHOI Deconstrapunctus
Winston Choi
INTERMISSION
ROBERT SCHUMANN Gesänge der Frühe (Songs of the Dawn) Op. 133 No. 1
Carter Johnson
MAURICE RAVEL Jeux d’eau
Jon Kimura Parker
BRIAN CURRENT Far Beyond Things Finite
Winston Choi
ALEXINA LOUIE Scenes from a Jade Terrace
Jon Kimura Parker
TORU TAKEMITSU Rain Tree Sketch II (In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen)
Carter Johnson
OLIVIER MESSIAEN Le baiser de l’Enfant-Jésus from Vingts Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus
Winston Choi
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