I had the pleasure of speaking with cellist and composer Andrew Yee at the recent Ojai Music Festival for The Strad. We talked about her new album with Caroline Shaw, or, The Whale:
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‘I Was Terrified of the Blank Page’: Andrew Yee
March 26, 2023 • 12:04 am Comments Off on Caroline Shaw with Byron Schenkman & Friends
Caroline Shaw with Byron Schenkman & Friends
Byron Schenkman has long been a vital force in Seattle’s musical life. Here’s my Seattle Times story about the legacy of Byron Schenkman & Friends, which he founded ten years ago, and their latest project, a newly commissioned harpsichord concerto by Caroline Shaw. The world premiere takes place on tonight’s concert at 7pm:
You need to engage with the present if you really want to appreciate the musical past.
That, in a nutshell, is the premise underlying the latest program that the Seattle-based chamber music series Byron Schenkman & Friends will present on Sunday, March 26 at Benaroya Hall. Instead of merely repeating baroque masterpieces by J.S. Bach, the concert includes a contemporary counterpart tailor-made for Schenkman and his colleagues by the acclaimed American composer Caroline Shaw.
Filed under: Bach, Byron Schenkman, Caroline Shaw, early music
April 22, 2019 • 10:05 am Comments Off on Finding a Way Back to the Garden: Caroline Shaw’s Music for String Quartet
Finding a Way Back to the Garden: Caroline Shaw’s Music for String Quartet
Caroline Shaw image (c)Kait Moreno
The May-June issue of STRINGS magazine has just come out, with my cover story on Caroline Shaw and her music for string quartet.
Filed under: Caroline Shaw, profile, string quartet, Strings
February 11, 2019 • 8:21 am Comments Off on New Concertos by Caroline Shaw and Kinan Azmeh at Seattle Symphony
New Concertos by Caroline Shaw and Kinan Azmeh at Seattle Symphony
Caroline Shaw, Jonathan Biss, and Ludovic Morlot with Seattle Symphony; photo (c) Brandon Patoc
My coverage of recent world premieres by Caroline Shaw and Kinan Azmeh has now been posted at Musical America.
SEATTLE—As Ludovic Morlot’s final season at the helm of the Seattle Symphony gets closer to the final stretch, his legacy of nurturing new music is coming into sharper relief. The SSO’s last two programs in particular—otherwise so strikingly different in character and mood—each unveiled commissions that took the form of brand-new concertos of genuine distinction: Watermark, Caroline Shaw’s score for pianist Jonathan Biss; and a moving work composed by and for the brilliant clarinetist Kinan Azmeh.
Kinan Azmeh with Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot premiering his new Clarinet Concerto; photo (c) Brandon Patoc
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January 31, 2019 • 12:51 pm Comments Off on Caroline Shaw’s New Piano Concerto Premieres in Seattle
Caroline Shaw’s New Piano Concerto Premieres in Seattle
Very excited–especially after getting a foretaste in rehearsal–to hear the world premiere tonight of super-talented Caroline Shaw’s Watermark, her piano concerto for Jonathan Biss.
Check out the video above for the composer in a master class on her own music. And here’s an interview from yesterday with KING-FM’s Dave Beck on Watermark.
Filed under: Caroline Shaw, commissions, pianists, Seattle Symphony
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