Jazz Articles about Amy Briggs

Amy Briggs: Tangos for Piano

by Raul d'Gama Rose
May 8, 2011

Revisiting the tango can be one of the most daunting tasks for any musician performing and recording in music today. But that hardly seems to be the case for Amy Briggs, pianist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW ensemble. Briggs has an enviable reputation as one of the leading interpreters of living composers and has done significant work with composers such as Pierre Boulez, Esa-Pekka Salonen, (who also worked with Wynton Marsalis), to name just of the many with whom ...