page_title: Piano Phase
section_title: Performance
hierarchical_section_title: Piano Phase / Performance
caption_attribution_description: featuring music from Steve Reich: piano phase for 2 pianos, 1 performer version, by Peter Aidu.
context_page_description: Piano Phase is a minimalist composition by American composer Steve Reich, written in 1967 for two pianos. It is one of his first attempts at applying his "phasing" technique, which he had previously used in the tape pieces It's Gonna Rain and Come Out, to live performance.
  Reich further developed this technique in pieces like Violin Phase, Phase Patterns, and Drumming.
context_section_description: The piece is played by two pianists without breaks at any stage. A typical performance may last around fifteen to twenty minutes. Reich later adapted the piece for two marimbas, typically played an octave lower than the original.
  In 2004, a college student named Rob Kovacs gave the first solo performance of the piece at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music. Kovacs played both piano parts at the same time on two different pianos. Reich was in the audience for this world premiere performance. Others, including Peter Aidu, Leszek Możdżer, and Rachel Flowers have also given solo performances of this piece.
  In 2016, a concert given by Mahan Esfahani was disrupted by the audience, which started clapping and shouting during the first minutes of the performance.
caption: Peter Aidu plays Piano Phase on two pianos
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