Pianist Christopher O’Riley and cellist Matt Haimovitz collaborate to forge a fabulous mash-up of a concert that unleashes the potentials of their instruments. The first half of Shuffle.Play.Listen. is pre-arranged; the second half is programmed from the stage, in true iPod form, as works by composers Leoŝ Janáček (b.1854) and Igor Stravinsky (b.1882) mingle with covers of Arcade Fire, Blonde Redhead, and Radiohead. The Billings Gazette called the performance “sublime interpretations of classical works…followed by jaw-dropping new works massaged into magic like Radiohead’s ‘Pyramid Song.’” O’Riley, host of NPR’s From the Top, is a genre-bending American pianist who’s appeared with every major orchestra across the country and whose arrangements “locate a midpoint between genres that often struggle to find a common ground” (The Chicago Tribune). Haimovitz debuted in 1984 at age thirteen and has redefined what it means to be a classical musician today, performing in Carnegie Hall and coffee shops alike, and re-envisioning masterpieces and new music. Enjoy pre-concert chat in The Toby lobby at 6:30 pm.

Read recent reviews from The New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Presented by the Ensemble Music Society and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Photo courtesy of Sarah Scott. Photo courtesy of Matt Dine. Photo courtesy of Aliki Potiris