On Friday, December 6, 2024, Adam Tendler, the “relentlessly adventurous pianist” (Washington Post) releases Inheritances via New Amsterdam Records. After his father’s unexpected death, Tendler used his inheritance, an envelope full of cash received in a parking lot, to begin a commissioning project inviting a broad spectrum of sound artists and composers to create new piano works that explore the theme of ‘inheritance’ itself. Woven into a single “wildly unexpected” (Star Tribune) intimate program that brings “melancholy beauty beyond conventions” (Pioneer Press), these “little masterpieces” (New York Times) tell a universal story of lineage, loss, and place, and become a meditation on confronting our past while moving forward into the future.The album features new works by composers Laurie Anderson, Devonté Hynes, Nico Muhly, inti figgis-vizueta, Pamela Z, Ted Hearne, Angélica Negrón, Christopher Cerrone, Marcos Balter, Missy Mazzoli, Darian Donovan Thomas, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Scott Wollschleger, Mary Prescott, Timo Andres, and John Glover.