Feast of Music: Metropolis Ensemble Celebrates 10 Years of Musicmaking at Angel Orensanz Center
So, it was only fitting that for their 10th Anniversary this past Tuesday, Metropolis took over the Angel Orensanz Center on the Lower East Side for an ambitious party that offered free flowing wine and dozens of works, some performed simultaneously.
Brooklyn Magazine: At Home with “Brownstone”: the Metropolis Ensemble Celebrates Ten Years
What makes “Brownstone,” as an evening-long event and as an individual piece of music, different is “that individual audience members have near total control over how they experience and hear the work,”
Washington Post: Music takes over every inch of the Phillips Collection
“The Phillips Collection had an artsy, New York vibe on Sunday when the Metropolis Ensemble took over the place, literally.”
Wall Street Journal: 'Brownstone’ Is Half Concert and Half Art Installation
In the Upper East Side townhouse that the American Irish Historical Society calls home, a violinist ambled down the stairs while tuning her instrument and a harpist improvised with electronic sounds that came from the walls.
Portland Press Herald: Victoria Mansion will become a stage for the Metropolis ensemble’s ‘Brownstone’
The New York-based ensemble, with roots in Maine, will perform at the Portland mansion on Oct. 3.
New York Times: Lending Mozart a Left Hand
The composer and pianist Timo Andres’s take on the “Coronation” (otherwise known as the Piano Concerto No. 26 in D) felt necessary — not a lark but a surprisingly moving dazzler.
Star Tribune: Composer Timo Andres Goes for the Beauty
His second record, last year’s “Home Stretch,” boldly fills in the absent left hand of Mozart’s “Coronation” Concerto and also offers up a 14-minute “Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno.”
56th Grammy Awards: Home Stretch
The 56th Annual Grammy Awards on January 26, 2014 proved to be a stellar night for the artists and collaborators of Metropolis Ensemble in multiple winning categories!
NPR Music's 100 Favorite Songs Of 2013: Homestretch
Home Stretch is a gentle gondola ride through five lovely Eno songs ... a clever, lovingly orchestrated homage in the time-honored spirit of Franz Liszt.
Pasatiempo: TIMO ANDRES "Home Stretch"
The different music on composer-pianist Timo Andres’ Home Stretch — a rhythmically modern piece for piano and chamber orchestra, a reimagination of Mozart’s Coronation concerto, and a “paraphrase” of themes written by an experimental, ambient musician — is an adventure in time, in terms of tempo and stylistic history.
Seattle Pi Music Review: Timo Andres - 'Home Stretch'
In the reinvention of the Coronation Concerto on Home Stretch, Andres lets his imagination fill in the gaps, and creates a lovely amalgam of Mozartian classicism and modern pianistic sensibility.
Timo Andres: Weaving Together Eno And Mozart
On his new album, Home Stretch, Andres plays off of works by Brian Eno and Mozart, matching his reinventions of those pieces with a composition of his own. The result is a buoyant and fascinating record.
Andres: Home Stretch; Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno; Mozart/Andres: Coronation Concerto Recomposition – review
The centrepiece of this latest collection on Home Stretch is a perfect example of Andres's playful intelligence and individuality.
Album review: Timo Andres & Metropolis Ensemble, Home Stretch (Nonesuch)
“An ambitious and confident performance resulting in a compelling blend of ancient and modern.”
First Listen: Timo Andres And The Metropolis Ensemble, 'Home Stretch'
“Thought-provoking glimpses into how the past and the present merge in classical music today.”
Music Education for a New Generation
Since 2006, Metropolis has encouraged creativity and self-expression through teaching composition to NYC students in our education program, Youth Works.