Interviews

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Finding His Own Way – An Interview with Stephan Moore
His is the art you hear but don’t see; he’s the invisible performer behind the sound. Stephan Moore is your man of all audio skills: he’s a sound artist who invents his own speakers, he’s a musician who’s created multichannel
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Writer and Pianist, or is that Pianist and Writer – an interview with Jeremy Denk
Jeremy Denk made one name as a thoughtful and imaginative pianist. He made another name in 2013 when he wrote a piece for The New Yorker on learning to be pianist and his relationship with his most influential teacher, György
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The Melodic Pleasures of Jacqueline Leung
A different kind of album came to our attention the other day – a new recording by Hong Kong pianist Jacqueline Leung, In Sunshine or In Shadow. Instead of the usual compilation of the usual stalwarts of the piano world,
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Finding the Opera Inside
An Interview with Davinia Rodríguez
Spanish soprano Davinia Rodríguez, from Gran Carania in the Canary Islands, is currently in Oman, singing Nedda in Pagliacci. It’s a rare production to have just the one opera, without its usual accompaniment of Cavalleria rusticana, but that means that
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Nemorino in Tokyo – An Interview with Saimir Pirgu
In discussing the wide-range of characters he’s sung and his current role, lyric tenor Saimir Pirgu says he likes the roles where he doesn’t die at the end, contrasting his current role of Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore at the National
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Placing Music in Context – An Interview with Ton Koopman
Ton Koopman will be coming to China and Hong Kong in May for 4 concerts that reflect many aspects of his career. His first two concerts, 20 May in Guangzhou and 25 May in Shanghai, are solid 18th century masterpieces
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A Different Story than Film: Bruno Monsaingeon’s Books and Performances
Only two of Bruno Monsaingeon’s books came from his films, the 6 others are all independent productions. The two books, Mademoiselle and Richter, had very different sources of generation.
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My Films Should Outlast Me: Bruno Monsaingeon as Filmmaker
Filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon made his name with his very first film, on his teacher, Yehudi Menuhin and the violin in Eastern Europe. His fame was cemented with his second film, the first of many on the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.
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