Interviews

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Harriet Mackenzie and the World Heart Beat Music Academy
‘Music will be your Friend for Life’ On 24th March, internationally acclaimed violinist Harriet MacKenzie gives a concert to mark the opening of a new hall at the World Heart Beat Music Academy, a music school in southwest London offering
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The Bulletproof Musician: An Interview With a Performance Psychologist Noa Kageyama
Noa Kageyama is a performance psychologist who focuses on teaching performing artists to apply principles of sports psychology to demonstrate their full potential even under pressure. Noa has a thriving career. In addition to maintaining his popular performance psychology blog,
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New Recording of Chamber Music by Luis Humberto Salgado
An Interview With Dr. Ketty Wong-Cruz
Luis Humberto Salgado (1903-1977) was a well-known figure in the musical world of Quito, Ecuador. Although he was a prolific composer, much of his music was unperformed and unpublished during his lifetime. Recently, Dr. Ketty Wong, and the ensemble Kansas
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Classical Music as a Constantly Evolving Organism
An Interview with Clarissa Bevilacqua
A recent Nimbus recording brings us the violin music of American composer Augusta Read Thomas. Professor of Composition at the University of Chicago and founder of the University of Chicago’s Center for Contemporary Composition, Thomas can be considered on the
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Schubert Complete Piano Sonatas – An Interview With Paul Lewis
“I love the vulnerability of Schubert. I love the fragility. I love the lack of resolution. In a way, it’s the most real and human music.” – Paul Lewis Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Major D. 664, II. Andante |
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Moments of Grace
The Quatuor Arod and Bruno Monsaingeon
There’s a point in Bruno Monsaingeon’s new documentary about the Quatuor Arod, Ménage à Quatre, where it all becomes clear – you understand what they’re talking about and the minutiae of sound elements that they’re dealing with when Jérémy Garbarg,
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An Interview With Mezzo-Soprano Coline Dutilleul: The Play of Light and Shadow
The album Licht in der Nacht by mezzo-soprano Coline Dutilleul and American pianist Kunal Lahiry is described as being ‘from the roots of modern music (1896–1914)’. It starts with French Impressionism and ends with German Expressionism (and the start of
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Romanticism and Modernism: An Interview With Violinist Madeleine Mitchell
We spoke with violinist and Royal College of Music professor Madeleine Mitchell recently about two very interesting films she’s just made. The first was created in relation to an exhibition at the V&A museum in London and the other is
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