Feldman at 100: Triadic Memories

Other Minds welcomes pianist Amy Williams to perform Morton Feldman’s monumental—and rarely performed—Triadic Memories on Thursday, January 8, 2026, at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, in celebration of the composer’s centennial. Morton Feldman’s extraordinary late solo piano work is a study in slowly evolving repetitions over the 80-minute duration. Exact repetitions, subtle variations, shifting patterns and fresh new materials are interwoven. Materials are constantly recontextualized, using different voicing and registers, changing one note of a chord, juxtaposing new harmonies—always changing and always soft. The listener is taken on a journey of deep concentration and reflection.

Pianist/composer Amy Williams has been connected to Feldman’s music since her childhood—her father and Feldman were close colleagues at the University at Buffalo. She has recorded and performed his music for nearly three decades. This concert is part of Other Minds’s PastForward series, presented in cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Music, Northeastern University and Mills Performing Arts.