Philip Glass and Franz Schubert with Vivien Schweitzer, piano
About This Event
At Bargemusic, pianist Vivien Schweitzer presents a program pairing the works of Philip Glass and Franz Schubert. Schweitzer, whose practice spans classical repertoire and rock/pop-adjacent projects, foregrounds clarity and structural line, juxtaposing Glass’s repetitive, pattern-based procedures with Schubert’s melodic architecture and treating their differences as a subject of inquiry rather than contrast.
About the Artists
Vivien Schweitzer
Vivien Schweitzer is a pianist whose work moves between classical repertoire and the edges of rock and pop. In New York City she appears at Bargemusic, presenting programs that place Philip Glass beside Franz Schubert and treat their differences as a point of inquiry rather than contrast for its own sake.
Philip Glass
Philip Glass is an American composer and pianist whose career helped shape late-20th-century concert music, often through tightly organized repetition and slowly shifting patterns. Though frequently linked to minimalism, his output moves across forms and collaborations, including rock/pop contexts.
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert is best known as a foundational voice in European art music, with a catalog that ranges from song cycles and chamber works to symphonies and late piano pieces. In New York City, his music appears regularly in programs at Groupmuse NYC and Bargemusic, where it sits alongside composers from Mozart and Beethoven to Bartók and Finzi, and in collaborations associated with artists such as Muriel Oberhofer, Eric Clark, and Alexander Fiterstein.