Before being named pianist of the New York Philharmonic in 2012, Eric Huebner maintained a busy career playing and recording new music. Just take a look at his discography here.
His latest album skews a little older, with Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana, inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler; and Stravinsky's Three Movements from Petroushka, a solo piano adaptation of the larger ballet's more memorable moments. Night Fantasies, the most recently composed work on the album, was composed by Elliott Carter (for Paul Jacobs, a former NYPO pianist) and inspired by the solo piano music of Robert Schumann.
Here's an excerpt from Messiaen's Oiseaux Exotiques performed by the New York Philharmonic, with a prominent role for pianist Eric Huebner.
