Touchline Pianos

Avant-garde music for two pianos

Touchline specialise in music from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. They also work with digital artists to create audio-visual works from repertoire compositions from the avant-garde tradition.

Ellie Chandler, Mike McInerney – pianos

Ellie Chandler performed her first solo recital at Symphony Hall in Birmingham at the age of 18, performing works by Beethoven, Schubert and Frank Bridge, among others. She graduated from Dartington College of Arts with a first class degree in music (Performance) in 2007, specialising in piano music of the past fifty years.

Performances

Two lines, becoming three, becoming four
an audio-visual homage to Philip Glass on the occasion of his seventieth birthday

Music in Similar Motion (1969) arranged for two pianos and video loop
Wednesday 7th February 2007: Studio 3, Dartington College of Arts, Devon
Wednesday 7th March 2007: University of Plymouth, Faculty of Education Music Department

On the Constituted Object

Morton Feldman Two Pianos (1957)
Mike McInerney On the Constituted Object (2003)

as part of Multiple Pianos, a concert of modern music for two pianos and up to eight hands for the Dartington College of Arts annual Festival of New Performance
Tuesday 5th June 2007: Dartington College of Arts, Devon

Tenderly

for two pianos and hand-drawn film
Stewart Collinson – film editing
Wednesday 28th April 2010: Studio 3, Dartington College of Arts, Devon

Projects