#timo andres

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Happy birthday to composer/pianist Timo Andres and Ringdown's own Danni Lee Parpan!

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It was 15 years ago: Timo Andres's debut album, Shy and Mighty, was released on Nonesuch. You can hear it here. On the album, the pianist-composer offers what the New York Times calls "a richly imaginative 10-movement work for two pianos," performed by Andres and David Kaplan. The New Yorker calls it "the kind of sprawling, brazen work that a young composer should write," achieving "an unhurried grandeur that has rarely been felt in American music since John Adams came on the scene."

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Here's a quick look at the design of the upcoming Steve Reich Collected Works 27-disc box set, due March 14 on Nonesuch. Pre-order here.

The design is by Ben Tousley, who laid out the books with DM Stith. The photo of Steve Reich on the box is by Dorothy Littell Greco; that on the booklet cover is by Betty Freeman. The project director and editor is Sidney Chen.

Steve Reich Collected Works features music recorded during the composer’s 40 years on Nonesuch—six decades of his compositions, including first recordings of his two latest works, Jacob’s Ladder and Traveler’s Prayer—plus two extensive booklets with new essays by Robert Hurwitz, Michael Tilson Thomas, Russell Hartenberger, Judith Sherman, and Nico Muhly, and a comprehensive listener’s guide by Timo Andres. The box includes 24 discs of Nonesuch recordings and three from other labels.

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Congratulations to composer/pianist Timo Andres on receiving the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Elise L. Stoeger Prize—a $25,000 cash prize, awarded biennially by CMS to recognize significant contributions to the field of chamber music composition.

"I feel equally challenged and freed to take risks when I write chamber music," Andres says, "and writing it, I've learned the most about becoming a better composer and musician. To be recognized in this medium by one of its greatest institutional standard-bearers is a huge and unexpected honor."

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The 27-disc box set Steve Reich Collected Works is due March 14 on Nonesuch, available to pre-order now here.

The box set features music recorded during Steve Reich's 40 years on the label—six decades of his compositions, including first recordings of his two latest works, Jacob’s Ladder and Traveler’s Prayer—plus two extensive booklets with new essays by Robert Hurwitz, Michael Tilson Thomas, Russell Hartenberger, Judith Sherman, and Nico Muhly, and a comprehensive listener’s guide by Timo Andres. 

Steve Reich's first Nonesuch record, The Desert Music, was released 39 years ago today, in 1985; he was signed exclusively to the label that year. Collected Works includes 24 discs of Nonesuch recordings and three from other labels.

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Rhiannon Giddens, Timo Andres, and friends joined us at Warner Music HQ in NYC for an exhibition of Nonesuch artist photos by Michael Wilson celebrating the label's 60th anniversary. Rhiannon, Timo, WMG CEO Robert Kyncl, and Nonesuch President David Bither spoke at the event, which showcased the recently released Michael Wilson / 25 Years: A Nonesuch Collection—100 box sets of 20 newly created prints from the photographer's Nonesuch archive, marking our quarter century of working together. Thanks to all of the people above and everyone at WMG who helped make the show happen and who came out for the opening. 

You can get Michael Wilson / 25 Years: A Nonesuch Collection in the Nonesuch Store now. 

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"I want to communicate with people," composer/pianist Timo Andres tells Pwyll ap Siôn in a Gramophone magazine profile. "That’s what I’m interested in. That's why I became a musician." You can read the article on Andres, whose album The Blind Banister has just been nominated for a Grammy Award, here.

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Michael Wilson / 25 Years: A Nonesuch Collection—100 box sets of 20 newly created prints from photographer Michael Wilson's Nonesuch archive—is out now, including this 2009 image of composer/pianist Timo Andres taken in New York City. Wilson says: “I’m glad to have met Timo. This picture is from the first time we worked together, and it makes me happy to look at it again. The light coming through the windows is beautiful, without a doubt, but it is the things that I wasn’t paying attention to at the time that please me the most now: the lamp with the burnt-out bulb, the sheet music on the ground at Timo’s feet, and the effortless way he has settled himself in front of the camera.”

You can get Michael Wilson / 25 Years: A Nonesuch Collection—which includes a note written by Andres—in the Nonesuch Store here.