Saturday 9:00 PM at the Cox Auditorium
Terry Riley Pipe Organ Concert

Riley will be performing a piece commissioned by the LA Philharmonic to christen the pipe organ at Disney Hall in 2008 and it will mark the first time this piece has been played outside of LA.

Saturday 12:00 AM at the Tennessee Theatre
Terry Riley’s In C performed by Bang on a Can and Special Guests + Terry Riley Performing Autodreamographical Tales

Bang on a Can All-Stars and special festival guest will perform Riley’s legendary masterwork In C after Terry performs the rarely heard recent work Autodreamographical Tales.

Sunday 7:00 PM at the Bijou Theatre
Terry Riley + Calder Quartet

Recently acclaimed as one of the “Makers of the 20th Century” by the London Times, Terry Riley is one of the most influential composers and performers in contemporary music. His masterwork, In C, changed the course of music in the mid-1960s, introducing a new approach to tonality and new structural principles that projected kaleidoscopic, psychedelic atmospheres and represented a striking departure from the then established musical direction of the mid 20th century. An imaginative improviser, his recordings such as A Rainbow In Curved Air and Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band, with their driving kinetic rhythms, also sent shockwaves across the contemporary music world – classical, rock and jazz. Riley’s music provided enormous inspiration to young composers like Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and John Adams, and was also echoed in the popular music of the Who (their “Baba O’Riley” is a reference to Terry), Pink Floyd, the Velvet Underground, Soft Machine, Can, and many others.

Strongly influenced by traditional Indian music, Riley trained and studied traditional Indian devotional singing with his musical guru, Pandit Pran Nath, for 26 years. He continues to give concerts of traditional Indian music as well as incorporating its influence into this own work.

In recent years, Terry Riley has composed a significant body of work, including a striking and distinctive book of string quartets from his deep collaboration with the Kronos Quartet spanning more than 3 decades. In 2008, he was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra to debut the extraordinary pipe organ at Disney Hall before a sold out audience. Riley continues to perform in other contexts as well, working in collaboration with his son, guitarist Gyan Riley, as well as violinist Tracy Silverman, contrabassist Stefano Scodanibbio, the poet Michael McClure, and many others.