Theodora Serbanescu-Martin: Pianistic Invocations: Liszt's Poetic Harmonies
About This Event
Pianist and scholar Theodora Serbanescu-Martin presents a program at Groupmuse NYC that foregrounds Franz Liszt as a touchstone for rock/pop-adjacent listening, where rhythm, harmony and bold contrasts carry as much weight as melody. Her work draws on Romantic performance practice and a disciplined approach to form and transformation, treating familiar materials as subjects for real-time rebuilding and privileging structure over spectacle.
About Poetic Harmonies
Poetic Harmonies is presented in a live set at Groupmuse NYC, placing the work in the city’s ongoing tradition of intimate, apartment-scale concerts. Featured performers include Theodora Serbanescu-Martin alongside music associated with Franz Liszt, reframed here through a Rock/Pop lens. In New York, Liszt’s legacy is usually encountered in recital halls; this context shifts the listening conditions and the power dynamics of virtuosity. The result reads less like historical reconstruction and more like a study in how canon material survives by being re-voiced.
About the Artists
Theodora Serbanescu-Martin
Theodora Serbanescu-Martin is a pianist and scholar invested in the culture of Romantic performance and history. -theodoramartin
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt appears on Groupmuse NYC programs as a touchstone for Rock/Pop-adjacent listening, where rhythm, harmony, and bold contrasts carry as much weight as melody. His music surfaces in events such as *Theodora Serbanescu-Martin: Pianistic Invocations: Liszt's Poetic Harmonies*, in collaboration with pianist Theodora Serbanescu-Martin.