This album includes the complete piano works of Anton von Webern, as well as a series of contemporary works for piano that are inspired by Webern’s piano works. anis Mercer is an American composer/pianist living in San Francisco. Her musical activities as composer, and pianist are closely interwoven. As a solo pianist and accompanist, Ms. Mercer has a keen interest in the music of the Second Viennese School but also performs music by living composers and commissions solo and chamber works. She has performed music by such diverse composers as Anthony Braxton, Anton Webern, Bela Bartók, Leos Janacek, Brian Belét, Pablo Furman, Paul Rudy and Sever Tipei, and has commissioned works from Zack Browning, Erik Lund, and Donivan Johnson, among others.