Hailed by
The New Yorker as the “dynamic doyenne of the toy piano and its grownup counterpart,” Margaret Leng Tan infuses the avant-garde with good old-fashioned showmanship, tempered with the disciplinary rigor inherited from her mentor John Cage. The first woman to earn a doctorate from Juilliard, Tan is also the world’s first professional toy piano virtuoso. Her curiosity has extended to other toy instruments as well, substantiating her credo: “Poor tools require better skills” (Marcel Duchamp). Margaret Leng Tan makes her Los Angeles debut performing the west coast premieres of two works written for her:
Metamorphoses Book I, George Crumb’s first major piano cycle in 40 years, and Phyllis Chen’s
Curios, a multimedia work revolving around the bizarre and bewitching world of the circus carnival.
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