Hannis Brown appears in the following:
My Body as Me: Kamala Sankaram Shows Us How to Keep the Look Loose
Wednesday, August 02, 2017
The Brooklyn Youth Chorus recently created space for conversation about social justice through commissioning ten new works. We dive into one: Kamala Sankaram's "Keeping the Look Loose."
Oneohtrix Point Never Remixes Ryuichi Sakamoto
Monday, July 31, 2017
New York electronic musician Oneohtrix Point Never has remixed a piece by legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Pulitzer Prize Winner David Lang
Friday, July 14, 2017
David Lang joins Jennifer Koh to discuss his Shared Madness piece "low resolution" and discuss a more meditative approach to virtuosity.
MacArthur Fellow Julia Wolfe
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Composer Julia Wolfe is a 2016 MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winner. She joins Jennifer Koh to discuss American folk traditions in her Shared Madness piece, "Spinning Jenny."
Bang on a Can's Michael Gordon
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Gordon joins Jennifer Koh to discuss his shared madness piece "kwerk" and the changing definition of virtuosity.
Composer & Sound Designer Mark Grey
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Grey joins Jennifer Koh to discuss the influence of Grey’s experience with technology on his approach to composition, and his re-construction of material from Paganini’s 20th caprice.
Grawemeyer Award Winner Andrew Norman
Monday, July 10, 2017
Norman joins Jennifer Koh to discuss performed silence as exemplary of delicate virtuosity, and the “deconstruction of technique.”
Bedroom Community's Daníel Bjarnason
Friday, July 07, 2017
Bjarnason joins Jennifer Koh to discuss compositions as self-contained universes and the challenges inherent in maintain many disparate voices in a work scored for a solo instrument.
Finnish Icon Kaija Saariaho
Thursday, July 06, 2017
Kaija Saariaho joins Jennifer Koh to discuss the tricky relationship between intricacy and virtuosity, and the extent to which extended techniques are (and aren’t) actually extended.
Transatlantic Composer David Bruce
Wednesday, July 05, 2017
British composer David Bruce joins Koh to discuss the vulnerability and humanness that both Bruce and Koh find in folk music tradition, and the concept of a “gift.”
Sante Fe Composer Marc Neikrug
Tuesday, July 04, 2017
Marc Neikrug is a composer and pianist whose career has spanned thirty years. He joins Jennifer Koh to discuss his first solo violin work, "Flash," written for Shared Madness.
Curtis Institute's David Ludwig
Monday, July 03, 2017
David Ludwig joins Jennifer Koh to discuss elemental sounds in instrumental music, use of palindrome, Paganini, and the geometric phenomena of the mobius strip.
Ojai Music Festival Director Vijay Iyer
Friday, June 30, 2017
Vijay Iyer joins Jennifer Koh to discuss the aesthetics through which Iyer believes we experience contemporary art, and the way we deal with absurdity
Unsilent Night's Phil Kline
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Kline joins Jennifer Koh to discuss madness, satanism, Paganini’s 24th caprice and the role that each of these entities play in the concept of “virtuosity" .
Chicago's Augusta Read Thomas
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Read Thomas joins Koh to discuss the how she seeks to elicit athleticism from Koh’s tendencies as a performer, and seeks to explore juxtapositions between different soundworlds.
IRCAM Innovator Jean-Baptiste Barrière
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Jean-Babtiste Barrière joins Jennifer Koh to discuss forces at work in the relationship between a performer and the computerized reactionary counterpart in an electroacoustic work.
wild Up's Christopher Rountree
Monday, June 26, 2017
Christopher Rountree joins Jennifer Koh to discuss channeling non-musical intuition in a virtuosic way in his Shared Madness composition “because I left it there.”
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer John Harbison
Friday, June 23, 2017
John Harbison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and pianist. He joins Jennifer Koh to discuss the tenuous relationship between classical and pop music in his Shared Madness piece.
Composer and Former MATA Director James Matheson
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Matheson joins Jennifer Koh to discuss the performer’s search for virtuosity within subtlety, the power dynamic between composer and performer, and the vulnerability of a solo performer.
Composer-Vocalist Lisa Bielawa
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Lisa Bielawa is a composer-vocalist who draws inspiration from literature and her artistic collaborations. She joins Jennifer Koh to discuss her Shared Madness piece, "Vireo Caprice."
