New York, NY (April 5, 2005) — The World Piano Teachers Associates Conference in New York, presented in cooperation with the Ibla Foundation, will culminate with a full-length performance by Grammy-nominated pianist Joshua Pierce of the complete score of Michael Harrison's "Revelation" for Harmonically Tuned Piano on April 10 - 8 PM at Faust Harrison Pianos, 205 West 58th Street, between 7th Avenue and Broadway in New York City.

This performance is free and open to the public. For directions or other information, please contact Faust Harrison Pianos at (212) 489-0666 or visit them online at http://www.faustharrisonpianos.com/.

"Revelation" is an epic ninety-five-minute work composed in thirteen sections. Although it is scored using standard notation with traditional key signatures, the pitches sound very different from what one would normally expect, creating a new musical language. However, the score reflects every rhythmic, dynamic and directive marking that would occur in any work using standard notation. The ongoing working collaboration between Joshua Pierce and Michael Harrison has yielded several nuances that new works of this magnitude rarely achieve. The score reflects every notation and developmental change since its inception, including the tempi, dynamics and performance techniques that were directly given to Pierce by Harrison during dozens of coaching sessions, rehearsals and after performance critiques.

Joshua Pierce has given several performances of "Revelation" in its previous form throughout the New York region, including a recent concert on the World Music Institute's Interpretations series at Merkin Hall to an enthusiastic and appreciative audience. This past summer of 2004 he performed an earlier version in East Hampton, New York. Joseph Shaw of the Southampton Press had this to say about Pierce's performance, "On stage at Guild Hall, the pianist's technical brilliance was on display, but so was the emotional quality he brings to his interpretations. Visibly and, more importantly, audibly, he was deeply connected to the music he played." Visit him online at http://www.jamesarts.com/pierce/.

Michael Harrison, following a lifelong study of both Western classical and North Indian classical music, has forged "a new harmonic world" (The New York Times). In 1986, he designed and created the "harmonic piano," an extensively modified grand piano with the ability to alternate between two different tunings to play 24 notes per octave on a conventional keyboard. Kyle Gann, in The Village Voice, hailed the harmonic piano as "a landmark in the history of Western tuning." Once a protégé of composer La Monte Young, Harrison prepared all of the specialized tunings for Young's 6-1/2 hour seminal work The Well-Tuned Piano, and became the only other person to ever perform the work. For the past 25 years, Harrison has performed his own music throughout the United States and Europe. Visit him online at http://www.michaelharrison.com/.

For more information regarding this event, the artists, the producers of the event, or press materials please contact Tony Scafide at Generation Media 917-217-3584 or tony@generation-media.com.

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