Drury Gerber
Guest artists Stephen Drury and Stuart Gerber will perform a concert of music for piano, percussion and electronics on Thursday, April 26 at 8 p.m. in Brooks Concert Hall at the College of the Holy Cross. The event is free, open to the public and handicap accessible.
The program will feature two works by electronic music pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen—one of the most radical, influential and controversial composers of the 20th century—including his seminal “Kontakte” (1959-60) for live musicians and quadraphonic pre-recorded sounds. The program will also feature “Red Arc/Blue Veil” (2001) by American composer John Luther Adams, hailed by Alex Ross in the New Yorker as “one of the most original musical thinkers of the new century.”
Pianist and conductor Stephen Drury has performed throughout the world with a repertoire that stretches from Bach to Liszt to the music of today. In 2009, Drury performed the solo piano part in the “Fourth Symphony” of Charles Ives with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Alan Gilbert. He has worked closely with many of the leading composers of our time, including Cage, Ligeti, Rzewski, Steve Reich, Olivier Messiaen, John Zorn, Luciano Berio, Helmut Lachenmann, Christian Wolff, Jonathan Harvey, Michael Finnissy, Lee Hyla and John Luther Adams.
Lauded as having “consummate virtuosity” by The New York Times, Gerber has recorded a number of pieces for the “Stockhausen Complete Edition” released by the Stockhausen-Verlag. Gerber is a founding member of the Atlanta-based music group Bent Frequency, performs internationally as one-half of the piano-percussion duo Ensemble Sirius, and is a regular guest percussionist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
For more information contact the music department at (508) 793-2296, or visit the department’s website.
Drury Gerber