| Joseph Kubera Artist's Website >> Hailed by Village Voice critic Kyle Gann as one of “new music’s most valued performers,” pianist JOSEPH KUBERA has been a leading interpreter of contemporary music for the past 25 years. He has been soloist at such festivals as the Berlin US Arts and Inventionen festivals, the Warsaw Autumn and Prague Spring. In the U.S. he has performed at UC Berkeley’s Edgefest, Carnegie’s When Morty Met John, Miami’s Subtropics Festival and Music in the Hamptons. Mr. Kubera has been awarded grants through the NEA Solo Recitalist Program and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts. Current projects include recordings of Michael Byron’s Dreamers of Pearl (2005), Roscoe Mitchell’s 8-8-88 (2004), Anthony Coleman’s The Hidden Agenda (1986) and Michael Sahl’s Serenades (1994). He is scheduled to perform works of Cage and Boulez with pianist Heather O’Donnell at the Ostrava New Music Days in August 2005. A leading proponent of the music of John Cage, Mr. Kubera is one of the few pianists performing the difficult works from the 50s through the 70s; he has recorded the complete Music of Changes and the Piano Concert, and has toured with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Cage’s invitation. In December 2002 he created, in collaboration with composer Michael Schumacher, an installation version of Cage’s Variations VI for the 16-loudspeaker sound environment at Engine 27 in lower Manhattan. Mr. Kubera is a core member of S.E.M. Ensemble, the Downtown Ensemble and Roscoe Mitchell’s New Chamber Ensemble, and he has performed with a broad range of New York groups from the Brooklyn Philharmonic to the New York New Music Ensemble to Steve Reich and Musicians. He tours frequently with baritone Thomas Buckner, and performs with Sarah Cahill in a duo-piano team. He has worked closely with such composers as Alvin Lucier, Robert Ashley, La Monte Young and “Blue” Gene Tyranny. Solo recordings include Beth Anderson’s Piano Concerto on New World, Cage’s Music of Changes and Lucier’s Still Lives on Lovely Music, and Cowell’s Nine Ings on New Albion. He has also recorded for the Wergo, O.O. Discs, 1750 Arch, Mutable Music, Cold Blue, and Opus One labels. O1C Performances: Sarah Cahill & Joseph Kubera |
