Preconceptions of how Bach should be played fly out the window with @bach, the debut release from the wildly talented pianist and 2010 Juilliard graduate Evan Shinners. The compilation of two live, unedited performances recorded at Juilliard and Rockefeller University last spring bursts with raw musicality, spontaneous and calculated virtuosity, and an ebullient energy. Shinners, who connects with today’s audiences in a way that has seldom been seen for a classical artist, will perform in December in New York (Rockwood Music Hall, December 7) and Los Angeles (The Mint, December 20). Find out why Time Out New York called him “a bona fide Bach star” and The New York Times declared, “Evan Shinners attacked the score with a bravura that might have pleased Liszt.”
Listen in to CBC Radio 2′s This is My Music on Saturday, September 17 at 10am for a 2-hour musical journey hosted by violinist Mark Fewer. The broadcast date will coincide with Owen Sound’s SweetWater Music Festival, where Fewer is Artistic Director. A superbly versitile artist whose recent and upcoming concerts include world premieres, Early Music, jazz and many genres in between, Mark’s most recent recording features the arresting music of American composer and self-designated “Bad Boy of Music”, George Antheil. The recording, which features the world premiere of the composer’s Sonata for Violin Solo earned high praise from The Buffalo News: ”Bravo isn’t enough … Try a good lusty Bravissimo for this disc, one of the most welcome classical discs of the year.”