Adam Tendler

After his father’s unexpected death, pianist Adam Tendler received an inheritance—a wad of cash given to him in a parking lot. He used the funds to begin a commissioning project, inviting a broad spectrum of today’s most exciting and recognized composers—his friends—to create new piano works exploring the idea of inheritance itself. Woven into one intimate program, these pieces tell a universal story of lineage, loss, and place; becoming a meditation on confronting the past while facing the future in an unforgettable concert experience unlike any other. Garnering national media attention since its premiere and recent album release on New Amsterdam Records, Inheritances has become a powerful meditation for countless listeners on themes of place, identity, and the cycles of life, acting as a catalyst beyond the concert hall to confront the past while facing the future. ABOUT INHERITANCES Adam Tendler, piano New music by: Devonté Hynes, Nico Muhly, Laurie Anderson, inti figgis-vizueta, Pamela Z, Ted Hearne, Angélica Negrón, Christopher Cerrone, Marcos Balter, Missy Mazzoli, Darian Donovan Thomas, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Scott Wollschleger, Mary Prescott, Timo Andres and John Glover