Joseph Houston: Quietly Rising

Supported by the Goethe-Institut.

Joseph Houston is a British pianist based in Berlin. His performance practice, described as “breathtakingly virtuosic” (Die Zeit) and marked by “technical-mastery” (Stuttgarter Zeitung), encompasses contemporary and experimental music, late 19th- and early 20th-century piano repertoire, music for alternative keyboard instruments, and his own compositions.


Schedule:

25.9.25 University of Alberta, Edmonton Campus, Edmonton: Lecture and demonstration of extended techniques for piano + workshop and performance of student works written for Houston

26.9.25 University of Alberta, Augustana Campus, Camrose: Performance QUIETLY RISING + lecture and master class for student performers

1.10.25 University of Victoria, Victoria: Performance QUIETLY RISING

2.10.25 University of Victoria, Victoria: Workshop for student composers + masterclass for student pianists

5.10.25 Arraymusic, Toronto: Performance QUIETLY RISING as part of the FreeSound series

7.10.25 Le Vivier, Montreal: Performance QUIETLY RISING


Quietly Rising Program:

Bryn Harrison: Quietly Rising [2008]
Joseph Houston: Duo [2023] (w/ electronics)
Chiyoko Szlavnics: Constellations I-III [2011] (w/ electronics)
Linda Catlin Smith: The Underfolding [2001]
Max Murray: Ágnes Wrote [2020] (w/ electronics)
Cassandra Miller: Philip the Wanderer (1 to 3) [2012]