Sep
07
Pierre Boulez Centennial - Complete Solo Piano Works
Sun September 7th, 2025
7:00PM
Main Space
Minimum Age: All Ages
Doors Open: 6:00PM
Show Time: 7:00PM
Event Ticket: $20-$25
Day of Show: $25-$30
Internationally acclaimed pianist Taka Kigawa returns to (Le) Poisson Rouge for a solo recital marking the 100th anniversary of Pierre Boulez’s birth. The program features Boulez’s complete solo piano works, including Twelve Notations, First Sonata, Second Sonata, Third Sonata (with the recently published Formant 1: Antiphonie), Incises, and Une page d’éphéméride.
Renowned for his authoritative interpretations of Boulez’s challenging scores, Kigawa has performed this repertoire to critical acclaim worldwide. The New York Times lauded his ability to bring “exhilarating energy and myriad colorings” to these fiercely difficult works, while Boulez himself praised his playing as “precise, and at the same time inventive.”
A Juilliard graduate, Kigawa has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Cité de la Musique (Paris), Palau de la Música Catalana (Barcelona), Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), and more, collaborating with leading conductors and composers including Boulez, Unsuk Chin, Myung-Whun Chung, Jonathan Nott, and Yusef Lateef. This concert is a must for fans of contemporary and 20th-century piano music.
Ticketing Policy
This show includes both Standing and Seated tickets. By purchasing a Seated ticket you agree to also purchase a minimum of two food and/or beverage items per person. Table seating is first come, first seated. Please arrive early for the best choice of available seats. Seating begins when doors open. Tables are communal so you may be seated with other patrons.
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Taka Kigawa
Celebrated by The New York Times as a “Phenomenon” and “the extraordinary pianist,” and praised by The New Yorker as “an artist of stature,” Taka Kigawa’s playing sparkles with both clarity and intensity. Buenos Aires’ La Nación called him “a stupendous virtuoso.”
Mr. Kigawa has performed across the United States, Europe, South America and Japan—at venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Library of Congress, Cité de la Musique in Paris, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Known for a repertoire that spans the Baroque to the avant-garde, he is equally at home in the classics and in adventurous, contemporary music.
Taka Kigawa has collaborated with legendary musicians, including Pierre Boulez, Myung-Whun Chung and Jonathan Nott, and premiered the final solo piano work of jazz icon Yusef Lateef.
Born in Nagano, Japan, Mr. Kigawa now calls New York City home. He is a Steinway Artist.