Project In Brief
  • Metropolis Ensemble and Blueprints Piano Series collaborated to produce a 13-event festival centered around conversations about the piano.

  • The festival featured 20 pianists, 28 living composers, and 10 instrumental collaborators.

  • The project brought together seemingly disparate jazz artists and improvisers, classical and contemporary specialists.

  • β€œThe last few concerts in this co-presentation by the Blueprints Piano Series and the composer-and-performer collective Metropolis Ensemble bring an intriguing array of mostly contemporary, mostly piano works to the Bowery.” (The New Yorker)

 
Project Partners
 

 

Project Development

2019
  • Metropolis partnered with Blueprints Piano Series, co-founded by Daniel Anastasio and Erika Dohi, to create a pan-stylistic festival and musical cartography with the piano as guiding compass.
  • The project goals were to foster new collaborations with pianists, composers, and instrumentalists across jazz, classical, and contemporary music genres.
 

 

In Visible Roads Festival

March 19β€”April 21, 2019 at One Rivington NYC
 
 
 

 

More Projects

Take an in-depth look at Metropolis Ensemble projects over the years.