
TINY KEYS BIG SOUNDS
Vintage toy pianos & chamber orchestra
Tiny Keys Big Sounds is a unique concert portraying vintage toy pianos and chamber orchestra featuring pianist Tricia Dawn Williams. The first part of the programme portrays works for solo toy piano ex. Suite for a Musical Clock by Handel; piano and toy piano ex. Clowns at Night by George Crumb as well as the use of live electronics ex. In C by Terry Riley. The second part of the programme presents the toy piano with the chamber orchestra with a new arrangement of Parade by Erik Satie and Kinderklavier Concerto by Ruben Zahra
Programme
SUITE FOR A MUSICAL CLOCK by George Frideric Handel
CLOWNS AT NIGHT (from Metamorphoses Book 1) by George Crumb
SUITE FOR TOY PIANO by John Cage
SATIE BLUES by Toby Twining
PAN'S LABYRINTH by Javier Navarrete
WATCH CHIMES (Carillon Theme) by Ennio Morricone
LA VALSE DES MONSTRES by Yann Tiersen
TIERKREIS (selection) by Karlheinz Stockhausen
CAROUSEL by Phyllis Chen
IN C by Terry Riley

“Composers have been taking the Toy Piano seriously throughout the 20th century especially after John Cage wrote the Suite for Toy Piano in 1948.”
“a constantly changing kaleidoscope of styles, forms and melodies”
— Brno Contemporary Orchestra - Czech Republic 2022
“Kinderklavier Concerto for toy pianos & chamber orchestra ... each movement portrays the toy piano within a different cinematic narrative”
— Malta Philharmonic Orchestra - April 2022