The Music of Erik Lotichius and Heather Pinkham — Mills Music Now
Presented by Other Minds, with the Center for Contemporary Music and Mills Performing Arts,
Event is open to the public, Registration opening soon, Free with an NU ID,
Join us for an evening with pianists Ralph van Raat and Heather Pinkham to play the music of Erik Lotichius and Heather Pinkham.
Ignored and, in some cases, outwardly reviled during his early years of composition for the consonant qualities of his music, Belgian Erik Lotichius (1929–2015) nonetheless achieved recognition late in life for his fusion of classical structure with gestures and systems borrowed from jazz and minimalism. Tonight’s concert features selections from Anaitalrax, a series of 25 compositions that Lotichius worked on between 1983 and 2013. While the title seems a nonce word, reading it backwards enlightens. The compositions are dedicated to the Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti, though the pianist Ralph van Raat, featured tonight, notes that you can also “hear echoes from the works of Ravel, Weill, Dave Brubeck,…
Sunday, November 15, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.