Adam Tendler
John Cage Sonatas and Interludes, performed by Adam Tendler
GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Adam Tendler is a recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, the Yvar Mikhashoff Prize, and is considered “currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), “relentlessly adventurous” (Washington Post), a “remarkable and insightful musician” (LA Times), and an “intrepid… maverick pianist” (The New Yorker). A pioneer of DIY culture in classical music, at 23 Tendler performed solo recitals in all fifty United States as part of a grassroots recital tour called America 88×50, and has gone on to become one of today’s most recognized and celebrated performers in classical-contemporary music, appearing with the London Symphony Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, NJ Symphony, and on the main-stages of Carnegie Hall, the Barbican Centre, Sydney Opera House, Roy Thomson Hall, BAM, and leading series and stages nationwide. Tendler’s recent albums include Inheritances, 16 new works commissioned using the entire inheritance left to him by his father, Wild Up’s Grammy-nominated Julius Eastman album, If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?, as well as solo albums of music by Robert Palmer and Franz Liszt. Adam has published two books, was the 2024 Artist in Residence at Brooklyn’s Green-wood Cemetery, is a Yamaha Artist, and serves on the piano faculty of NYU.
photo by Steven Pisano