Monday 24 August 2026, 7.30pm
In anticipation of the release of Philip Corner’s ‘Passage Through: A Ritual’ LP, The Hotel proudly presents its first recital.
The Hotel invites Philip Corner’s pianist of choice, Agnese Toniutti, to Cafe OTO to perform a concert of Corner’s works on the grand piano.
As prelude, The Hotel will host a premiere of Miles Lukoszevieze’s new piece ‘Self-Shadowing Prey’ for live electronics and playback ensemble, inspired by the writings of Ghérasim Luca.
Passage Through: A Ritual LP by Philip Corner is released 14th September, with advance copies available for sale at the event, alongside other titles from The Hotel.
This evening in The Hotel is curated by Philip Corner and Henry Cyer.
Miles Lukoszevieze’s ‘Self-Shadowing Prey’ is commissioned by The Hotel, with the support of Hinrichsen Foundation.
Agnese Toniutti is an Italian pianist specialised in contemporary and 20th Century music. She dedicates herself to the exploration and research on peculiar piano repertoire, often revolving around the concept of sound and its role in musical composition. Her work investigates the complementarity of composition and improvisation in musical creativity, both as an author and interpreter.
She met Philip Corner while studying Seventies’ art movements. Since then she has regularly played his compositions, stimulating challenges for the interpreter, in Italy, Europe and United States. In October 2023, in the occasion of Corner’s 90th birthday, she performed with the composer himself at Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia, IT for Festival Aperto in a recital dedicated to the 70 years of his piano compositions. The following year they repeated this at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Casa Cavazzini for Civici Musei in Udine, IT.
Some of her interpretations are published by label Neuma Records (Subtle Matters, 2021) and Sub Rosa (Fluxus&Neo Fluxus - Stolen Symphony part one 2023 and Fluxus&Neo Fluxus - Keep together part two, 2024).
www.agnesetoniutti.com
Philip Corner (b. New York, 1933) is an American composer, theorist, visual artist and a founder of the Fluxus art movement.
An early participant in pre-Fluxus activities since 1961, he was a resident composer and musician with the Judson Dance Theatre from 1962 to 1964 and later with the Experimental Intermedia Foundation, for whose dance company he served as musician. He co-founded the Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble, Sounds Out of Silent Spaces, and Gamelan Son of Lion (still active today).
Many of his scores are open-ended, some employ standard notation, whereas others are graphic scores, text scores, etc. His music also frequently explores unintentional sound, chance activities, minimalism, and non-Western instruments and tuning systems. Contact with artists in other media, especially dance and the visual arts, as well as a long-standing interest in Eastern religions such as Zen Buddhism and study of the music of composers from the Baroque and Pre-Baroque eras, has likewise impacted his music.
He divides his work into five distinct periods, each reflective of his attitudes and interests at the time:
1. Culture 1950s
2. The World 1960s and 1970s
3. Mind 1970s and 1980s
4. Body 1980s and 1990s
5. Spirit; Soul, 1990 – present
Miles Lukoszevieze is a sound artist, composer and improviser residing in London. His work spans the rich tapestries of noise, electroacoustic, experimental rock and improvisation, realised through various monikers including the visceral noise-rock band Red Mar, post-industrial outfit Vostok, and interdisciplinary project MUON with Travis Yu.
He has also collaborated with artists Henry Cyer, Harry Fisher, Mai Nguyen-Tri and more.
His solo work realises a distinct intimacy of fragmented narratives and emotive dichotomies, where disparate threads weave a soundscape of timbral ambiguity, noise, colour, and abstraction.
mileslukoszevieze.com
