Augustus Arnone is an adventurous pianist who has made a home at the edge of transcendental extremes in the modern repertory. In addition to works which push the boundaries in virtuosity and complexity, he's particularly interested in those which explore innovative compositional media or technological approaches. His repertoire includes the complete solo piano works of Milton Babbitt as well as music by John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alvin Lucier, Morton Feldman, Luigi Nono, Jason Eckardt, David Rakowski, Roberto Sierra, and Edmund Campion, and emerging composers Yotam Haber, Michael Klingbeil, Stephen Gorbos, and Christopher Bailey. He is also an enthusiastic improviser and recent concerts have featured solo and ensemble improvisation using MIDI-enabled acoustic piano and synthesizer.
Mr. Arnone recently co-founded a new contemporary ensemble, with a focus on mixed-media performance, entitled Collide-O-Scope Music along with co-director Christopher Bailey . The founding mission of the group has been the presentation of a diverse spectrum of media, emphasizing the integral connection between emerging technologies and the formation of new aesthetic environments. During the 2011-2012 season, Mr. Arnone will be performing with Collide-O-Scope Music in a series of concerts in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and Somerville, MA in the Spring. The upcoming season features two new works commissioned by the group by Michael Klingbeil and James Romig. The season begins December 10, with a concert at Tenri Cultural Institute(New York) featuring John Cage's complete Music of Changes, as well as ensemble works by Boulez and Stockhausen and an ambitious trio by co-director Christopher Bailey. In February, COSM will return to the Issue Project Room's 'Month of Chamber Music' with a program of Rzewski, Glass, and Stockhausen dedicated to the "Revolution Years 1967-1969," including Stockhausen's classic Spiral(1968) for soloist and short-wave receiver. Additional dates follow in the spring as COSM will perform at the Opensound Concert Series and at the Cell Theatre with a program of new and recent works. For more details, please visit the Collide-O-Scope Music website.