In Piano Concerto the perfect, classical grand piano is confronted with a battered, almost completely broken grand piano in a virtual double concerto. The soloist, Nicolas Hodges, sits across from a video doppelgänger playing the damaged instrument that has been dropped onto a concrete floor from a height of 8 meters. The broken piano shifts the perspective on the orchestra and the freshly tuned, classical grand piano and adds a complementary palette of microtones and percussive sounds to form a super instrument between the two. Finally all forces meet in a quiet celebration of barely sounding, subordinate sounds and the poetry of the imperfect.

Piano Concerto was premiered by Nicolas Hodges and the SWR Symphony Orchestra at Donaueschinger Musiktage 2014.

In Piano Concerto the perfect, classical grand piano is confronted with a battered, almost completely broken grand piano in a virtual double concerto. The soloist, Nicolas Hodges, sits across from a video doppelgänger playing the damaged instrument that has been dropped onto a concrete floor from a height of 8 meters. The broken piano shifts the perspective on the orchestra and the freshly tuned, classical grand piano and adds a complementary palette of microtones and percussive sounds to form a super instrument between the two. Finally all forces meet in a quiet celebration of barely sounding, subordinate sounds and the poetry of the imperfect.

Piano Concerto was premiered by Nicolas Hodges and the SWR Symphony Orchestra at Donaueschinger Musiktage 2014.