2-Pianos’ Benefit Concert

2432 East Robinson Street,Orlando FL 32803

03 September, 2021

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The Nook and Composer Nathan Felix Present ‘2-Pianos’ Benefit Concert. Pianos to benefit low-income schools in the Orlando area Self-taught composer Nathan Felix and Nook on Robinson will present the 2-Piano Project, an immersive classical music performance where the audience sits in the middle of two pianos, on September 24 at the Nook at 2432 E Robinson St, Orlando, FL 32803. The concert will raise money to benefit lower-income schools in the Orlando area through enhancement of their music programs with pianos. After living in Los Angeles, Felix realized the importance and value of the ‘arts’ in community integration. With that in mind, he took to creating a performance to not only involve the community, but benefit it as well. The idea is to collect pianos that are considered “trash” to some, and convert them into “treasures” for others. The restored pianos will be used in a night of performances by Orlando artists who perform a wide variety of styles from jazz to cabaret to classical, etc. The evening will conclude with Felix’s two piano composition, Texas Skies, where the audience sits center to the strategic positioning of pianos creating an immersive experience. Originally, Felix introduced a 6-Piano Project in the Rundberg neighborhood (a neighborhood overlooked in terms of arts events) in North Austin, TX in November of 2015 and has since brought his multiple piano projects to San Antonio, Barcelona Spain, Melbourne, Houston and now Orlando. Felix hopes this ongoing project will contribute to the community by providing resources for a new generation of artists/musicians. “I want to contribute in any way possible to the grooming and growing of the next crop of young, aspiring musicians,” Felix said. Nathan Felix (born 1981) is a Mexican-American music composer known for his immersive and audience interactive works.  His music has been premiered in Bulgaria, Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Mongolia and the United States and his music has been featured on the BBC, MTV, NPR & PBS. In 2015, Felix recorded and released his 2nd symphony, Neon Heaven, a choral symphony sung in Classical Latin titled.  Neon Heaven premiered in Denmark at SPOT Festival with additional performances in Portugal, Mongolia and the US. In 2016, Felix was featured on PBS and nominated for a Lonestar Emmy for work on his 6-Piano project in which he restored six pianos for a concert featuring two new pieces. After the concert, Felix donated the pianos to schools in lower income neighborhoods in Austin.  The 6 Piano Project has since been commissioned in San Antonio (2016), Barcelona (2017) and Melbourne (2017). In 2018, Felix won awards for his “Opera on a Bus” and the “2018 Tobin Prize for Artistic Excellence” for which he premiered is “Headphone Opera” titled, THE WAR BRIDE at Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival.  In addition, Felix served as an official music ambassador for the US in China and composed music for a series of PSA’s for an international campaign by LIVESTRONG to raise cancer awareness in China and Mexico. In late in 2014, Felix reformed his band, The Noise Revival Orchestra, for a tour in Asia highlighted by festival dates in Japan and Taiwan where TNRO performed for crowds of 35,000 and 50,000!