Guy Livingston leads a dual career as pianist and researcher. Based in The Hague, he has performed worldwide, notably as a soloist with the Zurich Ballet, the Chicago Symphony, and the Orchestre Nationale de France.
His recordings of the modern repertoire include prize-winning premieres of music by John Cage, George Antheil, William Bolcom, Louis Andriessen, and over 100 other composers. Guy Livingston’s best-selling first CD (Don’t Panic) contained 60 one-minute premieres by composers from eighteen countries, and was featured in Le Monde, Gramophone, Diapason, Piano Magazine, and The New York Times.
Livingston holds degrees with honors from Yale University, the New England Conservatory of Music, and the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands. In 2024, he was awarded his PhD by ACPA (University of Leiden) for research on the embodiments of musical silence.
Livingston has done extensive work with silent film, both contemporary and from the archives. An expert on Dadaism, he has unearthed films and scores dating back to 1919. He appears in the Netflix film Bombshell, and was the producer and pianist for One Minute More, sixty experimental film clips by young Dutch video artists. He also teaches at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.