MusicArt

A MusicArt concert in collaboration with Ordovas gallery celebrating the friendship between Richard Serra and Philip Glass featuring

Annie Yim, piano

Friday 10 Dec 2021, 11 AM
25 Savile Row, London W1S 2ER
*Free event, booking required for limited tickets.

Pianist Annie Yim performs Philip Glass Piano Etudes at Ordovas in conjunction with the gallery’s 10th anniversary exhibition – Richard Serra’s Drawings. Inspired by the decades-long close artistic friendship between Richard Serra and composer Philip Glass, the concert includes Glass’s Piano Etudes: 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9.

Richard Serra and Philip Glass first met in the mid-1960s in Paris while both were students. As two Americans in Paris with only one year difference in age, they became friends right away – an important friendship that has lasted over half a century. Glass worked full-time as Serra’s studio assistant for almost three years in New York in the late 1960s. During an exhibition tour in Europe with Serra in 1969, Glass’s own performances and compositions were heard there for the first time, within Serra’s gallery exhibitions.

“To be working with Richard was an irreplaceable experience…The development of my own musical language, at least conceptually (not at all a small point!), had a relationship to Richard’s development.” – Philip Glass on Richard Serra, from his memoir Words Without Music, 2015

Piano provided by Markson Pianos

Read more and booking:

Gallery Concert: Philip Glass Piano Etudes | Richard Serra Drawings Gallery Concert: Philip Glass Piano Etudes | Richard Serra Drawings

One can spend a long time looking at the unexpected patterns and textures, and feeling the palpable energy of Richard Serra’s drawings Orchard Street, 2018 .

Preparing for a guest lecture online this week at the University of Pretoria about MusicArt performances and collaborations 📚