"Pianist, Provocateur" (NPR) Chilly Gonzales Tops iTunes Classical Chart

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) Chilly Gonzales' 'Solo Piano II' (Arts & Crafts) debuted at #1 on the iTunes Classical chart today, and he's celebrating the release by premiering an alternately gorgeous and hilarious concert webcast shot live in Paris with a string quartet: https://bit.ly/Png9XX

Chilly chatted with NPR's Laura Sullivan this weekend for an All Things Considered profile about what it takes to make instrumental piano and orchestral music exciting and accessible to younger audiences in the age of YouTube: https://n.pr/NWKbmt

Gonzales, whose performance before a packed concert hall in Poland last week got so intense he cut his head open on the piano (see photo), will make his Lincoln Center debut 11/1 for a commissioned performance with a 10-piece chamber orchestra.