Composer Spotlight
This Old Piano
Wed., May 12 @ 7:30pm
Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE Seattle
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This Old Piano is a transformation, where single pianos are deconstructed and designed into new instruments. Headed by pianist Tiffany Lin and wood worker Joel Kikuchi, This Old Piano has commissioned two instrument designers and two composers to collaborate and design, develop, compose for, and exhibit two new instruments. Each instrument is built from the constituent parts of a single free piano.
The current team of designers are Colin Ernst and Hugo Solis. These new creatures will then have original musical works created for them by composers Jherek Bischoff and Tom Baker.
Tiffany Lin began studying classical piano at a young age. She continued her piano studies at Valencia's California Institute of the Arts and earned her bachelor's in music at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Settling in the Pacific Northwest, Lin has performed the complete John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano on KEXP 90.3 FM and has earned a Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs CityArtist Projects Grant, a Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency, and a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has performed in venues including Consolidated Works (Seattle), the Roy O. Disney Performance Hall (Valencia, CA), the Seattle Art Museum, Mannes College Concert Hall (NYC). more
Supporters
Jack Straw Productions gratefully acknowledges The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, PONCHO, ArtsFund, Seattle Foundation, and individual contributors for their support of Jack Straw Artist Programs.