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2021-07-12 18:48:00
Bienen School of Music launches ‘Black Composer Showcase’ series with 'Chicago Connections' featuring Margaret Bonds and Florence Price
[…] Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. The final video in the series, “Chamber Music Highlights,” includes selections performed by Bienen instrumental students: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Clarinet Quintet, Jonathan Bailey Holland’s “Mobius,” Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s “Lamentations” and William Grant Still’s Suite for Violin and Piano. Speakers include musicologist and recent alumna Amanda Stein (’21 PhD) and current doctoral composition student Ben Zucker. Performers Olivia Hamilton, a master’s clarinet student, and Nicholas Abrahams, a Bienen-Weinberg dual-degree violin student, also contribute to the video commentary. Videos two and three will be released in the coming weeks in the Davee Media Library.
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2020-09-15 10:21:12
London agency hoovers more talent
HarrisonParrott has signed the Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing, 30, who has been on the stage since she was 11. She appears to have switched over from Libby Abrahams’ Keynote artists management. HP are signing in such volume during Covid they must soon run out of contract forms.
2019-09-26 05:59:00
Mari: (CD Review)
Mari Samuelsen, violin; Christian Badzura, piano and synthesizer; Konzerthausorchester Berlin conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer. Works by Martynov, Richter, Glass, Vasks, Eno/Hopkins/Abrahams, Johansson, Bach, Badzura, Gregson, Eno/Roedelius/Moebius, and Clark. DG 483 58694 GH2. By Karl W. NehringViolinist Mari Samuelsen has brought together a collection of interesting new music mixed with some pieces by Bach. Fortunately for us listeners, she proves adept in music from both eras, delivering us a two-CD set of delightful variety. The set opens with the delightful second movement from Vladimir Martynov's "Come In!," a piece that will probably be unfamiliar to many of our readers. If you are delighted by this movement, which I believe many readers will be once they have heard Mari's version, you will do well to seek out a performance of the whole six-movement composition (there is an interesting CD titled Silencio by Gidon Kremer that contains the complete piece along with some music […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-08-23 23:46:00
The best new classical albums: August 2019
[…] Copenhagen, the Welsh National Opera, the English National Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, the Canadian Opera Company Toronto and many others. Future engagements will see him again at the International Handel Festival in Halle, with Orchestre national d'Île-de-France in Paris and at the International Gluck Festival Nuremberg.Source: prestomusic.com Mari – Vladimir Martynov, Max Richter, Philip Glass, Pēteris Vasks, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Johann Sebastian Bach, Christian Badzura, Peter Gregson, Vladimir Martynov, Brian Eno & Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams & Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Dieter Moebius, and ClarkMari Samuelsen, violin (G. B. Guadagnini, Turin 1773)Konzerthausorchester BerlinConductor: Jonathan StockhammerRecorded October 2-6, 2018 at Konzerthaus, Berlin, and November 2-3, 2018 at Teldex Studios, BerlinReleased on June 7, 2019, by Deutsche GrammophonNorwegian violinist Mari Samuelsen's debut for the Yellow Label is entitled simply MARI, and is set for international release on 7 June 2019. Recorded with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and conductor Jonathan Stockhammer, the album explores the contradictions of […]
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