Most popular classical pianopiece written during the past 30 years?

[sevencircles]

What is the most performed classical pianopiece written after 1980?

Seems like there are so few new pieced that are being performed on a regular basis.

[j_menz]

How about Frederic Rzewski? His works are championed by Marc-Andre Hamelin, so at least they get some airing.  You can download them from imlsp too if you're feeling brave (apart from anything else, they are in manuscript).

[sevencircles]

How about Frederic Rzewski? His works are championed by Marc-Andre Hamelin, so at least they get some airing.  You can download them from imlsp too if you're feeling brave (apart from anything else, they are in manuscript).

I have heard Hamelin playing "The people United Will never be Defeated" on youtube. An interesting piece 

[thorn]

I think it's good that so few are performed on a regular basis.

The overall reason for this is that so many musicians are too precious about standard repertoire. I remember a friend of mine years ago studying Grade 8 piano, his teacher had him learn everything on the list to get a flavour of it- the single exception was a piece by Takemitsu. That pretty much sums up the attitude of many pianists towards modern music, who in their ignorance still think Debussy and Gershwin still qualify as contemporary...

Anyway, back to my opening statement, I think the way things are now amongst pianists who do perform modern repertoire allows everything to get a look in. I think the great backlog of piano repertoire that we've heard to death is finally beginning to teach professional performers an important lesson.