Stephen Porter, piano

In 2015 Stephen Porter's acclaimed New York recital at SubCulture was praised as “a powerful revelation” by New York Arts, “as if the voice of the composer were speaking to us.” He has appeared as a soloist in London, Paris, Lake Como, Sarajevo, Istanbul and Rio de Janeiro, among other cities. Mr. Porter was named artist-resident of the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris for Debussy’s 150th birthday year, and invited to perform the composer’s 24 Preludes. His recitals in Europe were followed by a guest appearance on NPR's Diane Rehm Show. The Boston Musical Intelligencer describes his performance this season as "simply spellbinding," and in the new biography Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph, author Jan Swafford calls his playing “unforgettable.”

Leise flehen die Lieder (The songs beckon softly)

Paul Cowell

Paul Cowell played percussion for many years, but after becoming more interested in Baroque music, switched to continuo playing. He is a composer and arranger; his pieces have been played on the BBC and ABC, and performed across the UK, USA and Australia. He lives and works in London.

Although it may not sound like it, Leise flehen die Lieder (The songs beckon softly) is derived from Schubert's songs. An accompanying figure from one characteristic motifs from several places, harmonies from others. These are worked up into a repeating form like those Schubert used.

Thoughts on the Rosebud of the Heath

Konrad Harley

Konrad Harley is a Canadian composer, organist, and music theorist. In 2014, he completed a PhD dissertation in music theory at the University of Toronto entitled “Harmonic Function in the Music of Sergei Prokofiev.” "Thoughts on the Rosebud of the Heath" is a scherzetto that alludes to the theme of Schubert's song "Heidenröslein," D.257

Thoughts on the Rosebud of the Heath: This short scherzo recalls the tune of one of Schubert's loveliest little songs--"Heidenroslein" (D.257).

Schubertango

Juan María Solare

Juan María Solare, born in Argentina, works in Germany as composer, pianist (contemporary & tango) and teaching at the University of Bremen and at the Hochschule fuer Kuenste Bremen. His music has been performed in five continents. Fifteen CDs of different performers include at least one piece of him.

Schubertango: Tango music has more to do with Franz Schubert than with any other classical composer. Harmonies and types of melody are extremely similar. Such similarities cease, at the latest, when we come to rhythm. This miniature shows how Schubert's melodies can be flawlessly integrated into the musical language of tango. If one doesn't know the original pieces, you will not even recognize at all that there is a quotation

An Augmented Reduction of Impromptu No. 2

Alex Conde

Alex Conde, San Francisco jazz-flamenco-classical pianist and composer, graduated Spanish conservatories and Boston’s Berklee College of Music, was recently Piano Chair, Oakland School for the Arts, collaborates with jazz and flamenco luminaries, performing in the U.S. and internationally. His Descarga for Monk will be released through ZOHO Music February 2015.

An Augmented Reduction of Impromptu No. 2: The romanticism of Schubert’s Impromptus captivated me when I was a boy of 12 studying piano in Spain, and the melodies have stayed with me my whole life. Here I have re-imagined them as my own Impromptu, letting the harmonies flow with the original characteristic melody of Impromptu No. 2.

ff (Frozen Franz)

João Pedro Oliveira

João Pedro Oliveira completed a PhD in Music at Stony Brook University. He has received numerous prizes and awards, including three Prizes at Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition, the prestigious Magisterium Prize, the Giga-Hertz Special Award, 1st Prize in Metamorphoses competition, etc..

ff (Frozen Franz) is part of a collection of pieces based on classical and romantic composers music: transformed and suspended in time, as if the music became frozen. Frozen Franz is based on the lied Der Leiermann.

One-Minute Waltz

Gyuli Kambarova

Russian composer and pianist Gyuli Kambarova has Developed a unique voice in her compositions; her works incorporate an incredible mixture of Eastern sounds and classical techniques. Gyuli is a graduate of the prestigious Rostov State Rachmaninov Conservatory, and received two Masters of Music with honors.

One-Minute Waltz: Light gentle waltz brings you to the romantic atmosphere of the XIX Century ballrooms. Pastoral middle part of this piece comes to the dramatic climax and resolves in the main theme that is reach on polyphony imitations. The end of the waltz scatters in the "sky".

Reducción al absurdo

Rafael Gutiérrez Gandía

Composer Rafael Gutiérrez Gandía (Seville-Spain). In 2013 he was finalist in the international Oberon Quartet Composition Contest in Richmond (USA) for his string quartet Autumn Dream. In 2014 his piece Spiral Void (for clarinet double bass) is selected for The Vienna University to be part of Physik Et Musik in Academy Traunkirchen .His electroacoustic piece Giros II is released in O Festival Música Viva e a Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa . In 2015 his electric guitar composition Barrett was released in " Composition Workshop / extended techniques on traditional instruments and Composers Forum " at the Conservatory Rafael Orozco of Cordoba ( Spain).

My piece Reducción al absurdo is inspired by the chromaticism and large tessitura of Schubert but led the XXI century.My work has free form. Piano pedal never lifted to create a feeling of constant harmonic notes to collide against other.

Artemis Limnaia

Justin Blackburn

Justin Blackburn’s chili recipe has won top honors in every major contest worldwide. Bootlegged recordings of him reading the collected works of Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish swept the 2002 Grammys. Justin Blackburn is the man every man would love to be.