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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-11-21 01:16:25
A Far Cry’s intensely thematic “Four Quartets” took flight from the namesake poem of T.S. Eliot at Jordan Hall last Friday night. Awadagin Pratt participated as pianist and commissioner and Beethoven did his thing in wonderfully amplified quartet movements. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2023-10-12 03:30:00
Stillpoint (CD Review)
by Karl NehringJessie Montgomery: Rounds; Paolo Prestini: Code; Alvin Singleton: Time Past, Time Future; Pēteris Vasks: Castillo Interior; Tyshawn Sorey: Untitled Composition for Piano and Eight Voices; Judd Greenstein: Still Point. Awadagin Pratt, piano; Roomful of Teeth, voices; A Far Cry, strings. New Amsterdam NWAM177-CD Way back in 1994 I reviewed a solo piano recording titled A Long Way from Normal by a young African-American pianist by the name of Awadagin Pratt. Born in Pittsburgh, Pratt began studying piano at the age of six. By age nine, having moved to Normal, Illinois thus the title of his first album) with his family, he also began studying violin. At age 16 he entered the University of Illinois where he studied piano, violin, and conducting. He subsequently enrolled at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he became the first student in the school’s history to receive diplomas in three performance areas – piano, violin and conducting. In 1992 he won the Naumburg […]
2023-08-25 17:07:14
Absent from the recording studio for more than a decade, the restless musician has commissioned six composers for his new album.
2023-08-21 10:00:00
Awadagin Pratt does not stay still, but he doesn’t rush. Whether as a pianist, as an educator at the University.. The post appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.