The latest album from pianist, writer, and educator Jonathan Biss features three new solo piano commissions: Tyson Gholston Davis’s …Expansions of Light, Alvin Singleton’s Bed-Stuy Sonata, and Tyshawn Sorey’s For Anthony Braxton. Throughout the new album, Biss explores new possibilities at the piano, as he has done throughout a career marked by commissioning, performing, and recording contemporary music. The possibilities range from from Davis’s response to the paintings of Helen Frankenthaler to Singleton’s freedom of musical gesture and Sorey’s attention to sound and silence. Biss’s accompanying essays connect the new works to his relationships with the composers and his experience of bringing their scores to life.