Bold Moves

Technology, globalization, the levelling of cultural genres, and the ever-expanding options for entertainment and diversion have placed the empyrean realm of classical composition—and its living, thousand-year tradition—into a maelstrom of conflicting contexts. For Timo Andres, one of several brilliant composers to come out of the Yale School of Music over the last quarter century, context is commonplace. Not only is he part of a composer group, Sleeping Giant, which creates multi-movement, collective works, but he is also the member of that group whose music is most connected to the greater classical heritage. His new piano concerto, “The Blind Banister,” is a deeply complex tribute to Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major; you can hear both works performed by Jonathan Biss at Caramoor (July 10), part of a concert with the conductor Joshua Weilerstein and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s that also features tribute-type pieces by Haydn and Martinů.