Kunal Lahiry

Works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alexander Scriabin, Maurice Ravel, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, George Crumb, Helmut Lachenmann, Philip Glass, Radiohead, and others

In his Pierre Boulez Saal solo debut, Indian-American pianist Kunal Lahiry approaches the classical canon not as a monument, but as a structure to be reframed. Moving from the relentlessly revolving staircase of Ligeti’s L’Escalier du diable to the expansive liberation in the fugue from Beethoven’s penultimate sonata, the program becomes a roadmap for finding tenderness in an increasingly hardened world. Lahiry is joined by dancer Rubén Nsue and poet Nadia Marcus in a performance that merges voice, body, and sound.In collaboration with TRAUMATrauma is an independent art organization and curatorial platform.