Nominated for 58th GRAMMY Awards® in 3 categories: Best Classical Compendium, Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance by Nadia Shpachenko and Genevieve Feiwen Lee (for Tom Flaherty’s Airdancing for Toy Piano, Piano and Electronics), and Producer of the Year, Classical for Marina A. Ledin and Victor Ledin
Don Clark, Pictures on SilenceWoman at the New Piano is an album with a surely cosmic purpose… Stellar performances, usual fine Reference Recordings sound throughout, informative liner notes and a most varied and energetic program make “Woman at the New Piano” a clear winner and a new favorite here.
Ron Schepper, Textura MagazineAn exceptional recording of newly composed piano works… Given the involvement of multiple composers, Woman at the New Piano is naturally diverse… Clearly a labour of love.
Paul Muller, New Classic LAWoman at the New Piano is a generous helping of new piano music by four contemporary composers covering a wide range of feelings, moods and techniques.
In the year 2012 the nation was swept by a fear that had not been seen since the Y2K transition of January, 1, 2000. According to a misinterpretation of the Mayan Long Count calendar, it was believed that the world would end on December 21, 2012 — the end of the 13th b’ak’tun, 5,125 years since the previous apocalypse. Popular books, movies, and TV shows attempted to deal with the impending disaster. Sure, Mayanist scholars claimed it would really just be a time of celebration. Sure, many said that this was at most a time of transformation, with no basis for apocalyptic predictions. Yet we lived in panic, reading and watching images of the destruction of all we knew. Read More
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Sneak Peak 1 – “Woman at the New Piano” Trailer
Sneak Peak 2 – “Miró’s World” by Adam Schoenberg
Sneak Peak 3 – “Airdancing” by Tom Flaherty
Sneak Peak 4 – “Olive Orchard” by Adam Schoenberg