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UnCaged Toy PianoのHPへ!)
UnCaged Toy Piano Festival! November 29th (7:30 pm)
December 1st (8pm)
December 3rd (8pm)
Starting at the end of November, UnCaged Toy Piano will be hosting its first ever toy piano festival in New York City in a three-day extravaganza celebrating all things toy!
The UnCaged Toy Piano Composition Competition was founded in 2007 by Phyllis Chen as a call-for-scores to expand the music for toy piano. After making a call-for-scores for four years, the UnCaged Toy Piano Competition has received submissions from composers/artists across the globe with over 150 submissions altogether. This year, we congratulate the call-for-scores winner Rusty Banks for his winning piece, Babbling Tower-To-Tower for toy piano and cell phones.
The UnCaged Festival will feature numerous guest artists including diva of the toy piano Margaret Leng Tan, New York-based composer/toy instrumentalist Angelica Negron, Baltimore composer/performer David Smooke, instrument-builder/sound artist Ranjit Bhatnagar, glass/sound artist/improviser Miguel Frasconi, Brooklyn-based avant-folk band Cuddle Magic, Tokyo-based improviser Takuji Kawai, Matt Evans, Yen-lin Goh and UnCaged founder Phyllis Chen.
The festival will also feature the music of John Cage, Jason Treuting, Angelica Negron, previous UnCaged winner Fabian Svennson, James Joslin, Dante De Silva, Naftali Schindler, David Lang, Phyllis Chen, David Smooke, David Wolfson and much more.
Tues, November 29th Playhouse at Dixon (Dixon Place Lounge, 161A Chrystie Street New York) 7:30 PM $5 at door Join us in an evening of DJ’ed, VJ’ed and live toy instrument performances at the Dixon Place, NYC’s Laboratory for Performance, located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Our kick-off party will take place in their cozy lounge, featuring rare footage of toy instrument performers as well as miniature live sets from Matt Evans, Angelica Negron, Margaret Leng Tan, Cuddle Magic, Ranjit Bhatnagar and Phyllis Chen
Thurs, December 1st Special Guest: Takuji Kawai/Yen-lin Goh (Gershwin Hotel 7 East 27th Street New York) 8 PM $10 at doorTokyo-based pianist/improviser/toy pianist is traveling across the ocean to make his US debut at the UnCaged Toy Piano Festival. Come to this special event to hear Takuji perform Japanese toy piano works. Opening for Takuji will be Yen-lin Goh, giving the New York premiere of a new mono-drama for toy piano and toy instruments titled "Hard Hard Hard!" by the acclaimed Chinese composer Ge Gan-Ru.
Sat, December 3rd Toy Bonanza (DiMenna Center for Classical Music Cary Hall (450 West 37th Street, Suite 502 New York) 8PM $15 at doorIn our three-hour toy instrument marathon, this evening will premiere the winning and selected works from this year’s UnCaged Toy Piano submissions. Performers will also play what they do best, whether it’s toy-electronic improvisation, works written specifically for them, or showing off what the robot toy piano can do. In the sleek, new 3000 square-foot Dimenna Center located at 37 Arts, we will set up separate performance stations, one for each performing artist. This evening will feature an improvised solo and electronic set by David Smooke, Miguel Frasconi's own rendition of John Cage Music for Amplified Toy Pianos and Cheap Imitations, along with solo sets by Margaret Leng Tan, Phyllis Chen and Takuji Kawai performing his own compositions on the Japanese Kawai toy piano. People are invited to come and go between sets, have a drink with us in the lounge and duck back in for more--make sure to see Ranjit Bhatnagar's latest edible toy piano!
Festival Pass now on sale! $20 for all three concerts