It's not every weekend you find a world premiere performance in Louisville, but in fact this weekend there are two. The LA Piano Quartet will be in town to open the Chamber Music Society of Louisville's new season (Sunday at 3pm), and to premiere a work they've commissioned from Christopher Stark. Piano Quartet, is in three movements, each dedicated to a composer important to Stark's life, from mentors and teachers Jonathan Harvey and Roberto Sierra, to his friend and fellow composer Sean Shepherd. The second movement, dedicated to Shepherd, is also a personal reflection on the death of Michael Brown and the aftermath that has gripped Ferguson, Missouri.
Daniel Gilliam talked with Christopher Stark and Xak Bjerken, pianist for the LA Piano Quartet, about this new work.
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Here is the LA Piano Quartet performing another commissioned by Steven Stucky.
