Last Monday, I had the pleasure of recording an interview with concert pianist Eve Egoyan, who is well known for her daring sense of adventure, through her empassioned exploration of new piano repertoire. Her specialization is living composers, a bold move for a classical musician seeing as the entire “classical” tradition has been obsessed with dead composers, mostly from central Europe.
When I arrived at the studio she was calmly sitting on a sofa, in almost serene contemplation. I was very taken by her aura of calm.
We chatted before the interview, charting the general direction of our on air conversation. Eve Egoyan comes from a very artistic family, her brother is Atom Egoyan the celebrated Canadian filmmaker. She grew up in Victoria BC and in our interviews sheds a bit more light on her family background, her parents and why they chose to settle in Canada.
When I arrived at the studio she was calmly sitting on a sofa, in almost serene contemplation. I was very taken by her aura of calm.
We chatted before the interview, charting the general direction of our on air conversation. Eve Egoyan comes from a very artistic family, her brother is Atom Egoyan the celebrated Canadian filmmaker. She grew up in Victoria BC and in our interviews sheds a bit more light on her family background, her parents and why they chose to settle in Canada.
The interview went on for a full hour, conversation interspersed with excerpts from her recordings. She is no mere pianist, but a powerful communicator and advocate for living composers. A reviewer in the International Piano Magazine once wrote of her playing: “Eve Egoyan’s pianism has strengths in abundance, fully justifying Michael Finnissy’s testimony that ‘she illuminates the music she plays; an alchemy, authenticity and fearlessness’.”
Her most recent project is composer Alvin Curran’s six hour Inner Cities -a series of 12 works, rarely performed live in its entirety.
Curran says of his work:
"This music is open, unhurried, brutally lyrical, quiet, private and tonal as it is raucous, aggressively impolite and obsessively meticulous in making the simple relations between tones and durations an unending adventure of personal wonder. My goal, as always, was to reduce the musical elements to their ultimate essences, to repudiate and embrace dualism, and to emulate, even in permanent notation, the feel of spontaneous music-making." - Alvin Curran.
Eve Egoyan and I also talked about another interesting project she is launching titled Asking featuring the music of Spanish/German composer Maria de Alvear. The CD will be released internationally by New York-based Mode Records this fall. She will be in New York City November 8, 2007 performing at the Mutable Music series, details at http://www.interpretations.info/
Her most recent project is composer Alvin Curran’s six hour Inner Cities -a series of 12 works, rarely performed live in its entirety.
Curran says of his work:
"This music is open, unhurried, brutally lyrical, quiet, private and tonal as it is raucous, aggressively impolite and obsessively meticulous in making the simple relations between tones and durations an unending adventure of personal wonder. My goal, as always, was to reduce the musical elements to their ultimate essences, to repudiate and embrace dualism, and to emulate, even in permanent notation, the feel of spontaneous music-making." - Alvin Curran.
Eve Egoyan and I also talked about another interesting project she is launching titled Asking featuring the music of Spanish/German composer Maria de Alvear. The CD will be released internationally by New York-based Mode Records this fall. She will be in New York City November 8, 2007 performing at the Mutable Music series, details at http://www.interpretations.info/
MORE INFO ON EVE EGOYAN: http://www.eveegoyan.com/
Website includes touring dates, current projects, bio and music clips.
Website includes touring dates, current projects, bio and music clips.
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