Sun Oct 13
Dan Tepfer: Songs of Separation and Togetherness
7PM / $35 | $3.03 Fees Get Tickets
Dan Tepfer
One of his generation’s extraordinary talents, Dan Tepfer has earned an international reputation as a pianist-composer of wide-ranging innovation, individuality, and drive—one “who refuses to set himself limits” (France’s Télérama). The New York City-based Tepfer, born in 1982 in Paris to American parents, has recorded and performed around the world with some of the leading lights in jazz and classical music, from Lee Konitz to Renée Fleming, and released eleven albums of his own in solo, duo and trio formats.
Tepfer earned global acclaim for his 2011 release Goldberg Variations / Variations, a disc that sees him performing J.S. Bach’s masterpiece as well as improvising upon it—to “elegant, thoughtful and thrilling” effect (New York magazine). Tepfer’s 2019 video album Natural Machines stands as one of his most ingeniously forward-minded yet, finding him exploring in real time the intersection between science and art, coding and improvisation, digital algorithms and the rhythms of the heart. The New York Times has called him “a deeply rational improviser drawn to the unknown.” His 2023 return to Bach, Inventions / Reinventions, an exploration of the narrative processes behind Bach’s beloved Inventions, became a best-seller, spending two weeks in the #1 spot on the Billboard Classical Charts.
Dan Tepfer: Songs of Separation and Togetherness
During the Covid pandemic, pianist Dan Tepfer wrote songs, lots of them. Honoring his belief that music has the power to bring people together in times of crisis, he dove headlong into live-streaming, performing close to two hundred online concerts from his home for a devoted group of listeners. To his surprise, he found that the feeling of community that he experienced in concerts before the pandemic could be recreated, to a degree, through the internet. The songs he wrote during this time, collected under the title Songs of Separation and Togetherness, reflect the paradox of being physically separate, yet feeling spiritually connected.
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