"beautifully played"
— NY Times
Augustus Arnone is an adventurous pianist committed to the performance of contemporary works. Mr. Arnone particularly focuses on works which venture into transcendental extremes in complexity and physicality, and which explore innovative compositional mediums or technological approaches. His repertoire includes the complete works of Milton Babbitt as well as music by Cage, Xenakis, Ferneyhough, Stockhausen, Eckardt, Rakowski, Sierra, Nono, and Scelsi.
Mr. Arnone recently co-founded a new contemporary ensemble, with a focus on mixed-media performance, entitled Collide-O-Scope Music along with composers Christopher Bailey and Stephen Gorbos. The Collide-O-Scope Music concerts are immersive multi-media experiences that combine video projections of avant-garde short films, colorful animated kaleidoscopes, and text collages with solo and ensemble works drawn from the past half-century.
During the 2010-2011 season, Mr. Arnone will be performing with Collide-O-Scope Music in a series of concerts in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and Washington DC in the Spring. The season begins October 3, with a concert at Christ and St. Stephens Church (New York) featuring John Cage's complete Etudes Australes Book I, as well as ensemble works by Cage and Babbitt and solo works by co-directors Gorbos and Bailey. In February, COSM will perform music of Xenakis, Nono, Gorbos, and Bailey as part of the Issue Project Room's 'Month of Chamber Music.' Then in March, COSM is thrilled to be a part of the Intersections Festival, a three-week long cultural extravaganza in Washington DC showcasing a multitude of artistic genres, at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington DC. For more details, please visit the Collide-O-Scope Music website.