The Musicworks Magazine website has been overhauled and is looking great!
Back issues are now online – here’s a link to the wonderful article that journalist Matthew Pioro wrote about me a few years ago. The photos (which I love) are by Adam Coish.
Watch Six Pianos from up above.
May 1st, 2013 § 0
Here’s a link to the Soundstreams Canada concert I played in at Koerner Hall with six concert grand pianos (a Schimmel, an Estonia, two Yamahas, one Steinway and a gorgeous Bosendorfer). The big hit on the program, no surprise, was the last piece – Steve Reich’s Six Pianos. The camera shot was amazing.
Incidentally, my favourite of the six grands was the Schimmel.
Six Pianos by Steve Reich starts at 1:23.
Nice review in the Globe and Mail of Piano Ecstasy concert + Music for China on May 14
April 28th, 2013 § 0
Robert Harris, in the Globe and Mail, writes a nice review of Soundstreams’ Piano Ecstasy, last Friday in Koerner Hall.
New Music 101 – amazing Guardian series
April 26th, 2013 § 0
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/series/a-guide-to-contemporary-classical-music
I’m supposed to be a new music expert here in Canada, but I’ve been learning amazing things just by following this guide to contemporary music from the Guardian.
Still waiting for the Jim Tenney and Claude Vivier articles…
Toronto Star Previews Six Piano Show
April 25th, 2013 § 0
In this interview with Trish Crawford, I sound a bit dunce-like, but in the accompanying video, I gotta say, I get some serious camera time! If only I had asked for the camera-person’s phone number…
Toronto Star’s David Macfarlane writes about the Uitti show and the Music Gallery
April 24th, 2013 § 0
Life can be tough in the post-classical world, so it is extra nice when the shoutouts happen. David Macfarlane wrote a really nice article about the Frances-Marie Uitti show that I curated at the Music Gallery, and also about the value of spaces like the MG.
Toronto is Awesome’s Sharon Lee interviews me and Tania Gill (who is awesome)
April 24th, 2013 § 1
Did I really claim to have gone to “hundreds of thousands of concerts”? Sheesh. Do I really have a hirsute-Brobdignagian-dancer fetish? No way! (IT’S ALL TRUE).