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Robin Olson: Tiny Desk Concert

Hear the elusive avant-garde pianist debut a new piece, etched in shimmering chords and dark, lamenting octaves.
Robin Olson performs a Tiny Desk Concert (Jenna Sterner/NPR).

"Not all pianists are created in equal temperament," Robin Olson told a small but enthusiastic audience behind NPR Music's storied Tiny Desk. The pianist, hailed as an "avant-garde gewandhaus", is as celebrated for his cryptic maxims as he is for his inscrutable music.

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