Matthew Aucoin & Conor Hanick

Enjoy a two-piano concert by acclaimed musicians Matthew Aucoin and Conor Hanick that promises a world premiere by Aucoin as well as stunning performances of Feldman and Adams at Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

Matthew Aucoin has been named a MacArthur Fellow and served as Artist in Residence at the Los Angeles Opera from 2016 to 2020 where he continually expands artistic horizons and experiments with new creative works. This American composer, conductor, writer, and co-founder of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) pushes the boundaries of opera with acclaimed works like Eurydice and Crossing, staged at prestigious venues worldwide.

His latest project, Music for New Bodies—a collaboration with director Peter Sellars based on Jorie Graham’s poetry—is set for performances in Houston, New York, Aspen, and Los Angeles. In addition to Music for New Bodies, he is also developing his next full-scale opera, an adaptation of Dostoevsky’s Demons, for the Metropolitan Opera.

Pianist Conor Hanick is regarded as one of his generation’s most inquisitive interpreters of music new and old whose “technical refinement, color, crispness and wondrous variety of articulation benefit works by any master.” (New York Times) A fierce advocate for the music of today, Hanick has premiered over 200 pieces and collaborated with composers ranging from Pierre Boulez, Kaija Saariaho, and Steve Reich, to the leading composers of his generation, including Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw, Tyshawn Sorey, Samuel Carl Adams, and Anthony Cheung. Hanick is the director of Solo Piano at the Music Academy of the West and serves on the faculty of The Juilliard School, Mannes College, and the CUNY Graduate Center, and is a founding member of AMOC.

Program:
Introvert/Extrovert
Aucoin: New Work inspired by poetry of Ben Lerner, World Premiere
Feldman: Two Pianos
Adams: Hallelujah Junction