Saturday, March 19, 2011 – 8PM Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts 36 King Street West, Kitchener [order tickets now] Stephen Drury has commissioned new works for solo piano from John Cage, John Zorn, John Luther Adams, Terry Riley, and Chinary Ung. He has worked closely with many of the leading composers of our time, including Cage, Ligeti, Rzewski, Steve Reich, Olivier Messiaen, John Zorn, Luciano Berio, Helmut Lachenmann, Christian Wolff, Jonathan Harvey, Michael Finnissy, Lee Hyla and John Luther Adams.   In 2006, Drury’s performance of Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated! at the Gilmore Keyboard Festival was a sensation; he was invited back in 2008 to premiere Rzewski’s Natural Things with the Opus 21 Ensemble at the Gilmore Festival and at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall in New York as part of the composer’s 70th birthday. Featuring: Hammerklavier Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven The People United Will Never Be Defeated! by Frederic Rzewski Sponsored by Yamaha Canada < Back to 10/11 Season