Taka Kigawa, piano:

Pierre Boulez: Une page d'éphéméride
Zosha Di Castri: The thinking eye
Dai Fujikura: Joule
György Ligeti: Etude No. 6 "Automne à Varsovie"
Matthias Pintscher: On a clear day

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Séverine Ballon, cello:

Rebecca Saunders: Solitude (2013) - East Coast premiere
Marek Poliks: a tabulation / an unmarking (2013) - NY premiere
Franck Bedrossian: The Spider as an Artist (2014) - East Coast premiere
Andrew Greenwald: A Thing is a Hole in a Thing it is Not (V) (2014) - East Coast Premiere

Kigawa’s program consists of a variety of short pieces by monumental figures of modern music as well as younger contemporary composers of note. Beginning with Pierre Boulez’s most recent work for solo piano, Une Page d'Ephéméride (2005), Kigawa moves on to recently appointed Columbia University Professor Zosha Di Castri’s The Thinking Eye (2006), Dai Fujikura’s truly energetic Joule (2009), and György Ligeti’s immensely challenging sixth piano etude, Automne à Varsovie (1985). Kigawa concludes his set with Matthias Pintscher’s ruminative On a Clear Day (2004).

Séverine Ballon will present a program of virtuosic and provocative works written specifically for her. In keeping with the Permutations’ custom, Séverine brings together a host of important and geographically diverse voices: the exploration of the weight of sound in English composer Rebecca Saunders’ thoroughly sculpted Solitude (2013); French composer Franck Bedrossian’s polyphonic sound textures of The Spider as an Artist (2014); and pieces from two distinct American voices that offer meta-musical commentaries – Andrew Greenwald’s A Thing is a Hole in a Thing it is Not (V) (2014) and Marek Poliks a tabulation / an unmarking (2013).