Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff, pianists
Hocket presents Composer/Performer, a program featuring newly written works performed and written by some of Los Angeles’s most exciting composer/performers.
It takes a unique ability to compose music and then perform it for the world. This intimate relationship between music and musician furthers the artist’s self-expression and deepens the audience’s understanding. Violinist Cornelius Dufallo once said, “you don’t really know a phrase until you really feel that you wrote it yourself.”
This concert is being presented for FREE as part of Boston Court’s commitment to make these awful 18 months just a little bit better.
THE PROGRAM
This program will feature the world premiere of two of these commissions by electric guitarist Alexander Elliott Miller and violinist Nick Bentz. Additionally the concert will feature works by Sarah Gibson, Thomas Kotcheff, and others.
This program is in conjunction with Hocket’s Composer/Performer Initiative, a biennial commissioning project focused on cultivating new trios from composer/performers to write pieces that feature the commissioned composers on their instruments, plus Hocket.
THE ARTISTS
Hocket is a cutting edge piano duo based in Los Angeles. Lauded as “brilliant” by Mark Swed in the Los Angeles Times and as an “adventurous young ensemble” by The New Yorker, members Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff are both pianist-composers dedicated to commissioning and performing contemporary music.
They have performed in some of the most exciting festivals and venues across the country including The Bang on Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, MATA Festival in New York City, The Center for New Music in San Francisco, the Carlsbad Music Festival, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Noon to Midnight” Festival. Together, they have premiered over one hundred chamber and solo works and have collaborated with the premier, new music ensembles Eighth Blackbird and the Bang on a Can All-Stars. They have performed concerti with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, USC Thornton Edge, Oberlin Sinfonietta, and Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra. HOCKET has received grants from the Presser Foundation and The Earle Brown Music Foundation and has been a selected artist in Firebird Ensemble’s Outstanding Young Artists Initiative and Eighth Blackbird’s Blackbird Creative Lab. HOCKET is a Piano Spheres core artist and a performing artist on the Schoenhut Piano Company Artist Roster.
