Pianist Joseph Kubera Performs Music of Beth Anderson and Laurie Spiegel at National Opera Center

Piano music by Beth Anderson and Laurie Spiegel will be presented by Joseph Kubera tonight, March 25, at 7:30 PM at National Opera Center, 330 Seventh Avenue in Manhattan. This is presented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting in cooperation with the composers.

Ms. Anderson's works will include Net Work, Greta Garbo Waltz, the U.S. Premiere of History, Belgian Tango, Wallonian Waltz and the New York Premiere of Weirwood Chase.

Ms. Spiegel's works will include The Unquestioned Answer, After Mountains, A History of Music in 1 Movement and a series of brief piano pieces, described by the composer as "very personal and private," created while her music in electronic and computer media was becoming widely known.

Tickets are $15.00 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2517005. For more information, call 516-586-3433 or visit www.operaamerica.org/Applications/Calendar/index2.aspx.

Pianist Joseph Kubera has been a leading interpreter of contemporary music for the past three decades. Recent activities include a video of Cage's Music of Changes for Swiss RSI Television and solo performances at Cage 100th birthday celebrations in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. He has been soloist at such festivals as New York's Tectonics, the Warsaw Autumn, Berlin Inventionen and Prague Spring, and has worked closely with such legendary composers as John Cage, Morton Feldman, La Monte Young, and Robert Ashley. He has made definitive recordings of Cage's Music of Changes and Concert for Piano and Orchestra. Mr. Kubera has been awarded grants through the National Endowment for the Arts and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts. Visit him at www.josephkubera.com.

Beth Anderson's music has been described as having "a refreshing simplicity without naiveté" and as "deeply felt, direct, and yes, beautiful" and "charming and deeply felt to the point of romanticism." MSR Classics has issued The Praying Mantis and the Bluebird - Flute Music of Beth Anderson (MS1434) - www.msrcd.com/catalog/cd/MS1434 - World Premiere recordings of 11 works. Other recent releases are recordings by pianist Nancy Boston of September Swale and Aleksandra Maslovaric of Belgian Tango and Tales #1 & #3 for violin and piano. For more information about Ms. Anderson, including a bio, other videos, list of works, discography and much more, please visit www.beand.com.

Composer Laurie Spiegel has been composing with electronics and computers and using compositional algorithms since the early 1970s. Her best known works include her CDs The Expanding Universe, Unseen Worlds and Obsolete Systems and the computer program Music Mouse - An Intelligent Instrument for Macintosh, Atari and Amiga computers and her realization of Kepler's Harmonices Mundi, the opening track on the Voyager Spacecraft's golder records Sounds of Earth. Information about and examples of her music, art, writings and computer software are available at lauriespiegel.net.