House on Fire

House on Fire: Carbon Copy

House on Fire, a trio consisting of Andrew Anderson, Wells Leng, and Richard An, was formed around their common interest in new music and is centered around their shared focus as pianists. When performing or commissioning repertoire for three pianists, we frequently encounter the matter of homogeneity: How do you write for three people who ostensibly do the same thing? The pieces on this program each contend with the “three pianist” conundrum in different ways. Some put the performers on keyboards of distinct timbres to encourage a multiplicity of sounds. Others play into the “sameness” and employ the implicit uniformity of the keyboard to create a selfsame texture.