Artistic Directors (Music) - Joanna MacGregor, Thomas Ad S, Pawe? Przytocki, Kevin Noe, Karishmeh Felfeli, Phyllis Litoff, Martyn Brabbins (Paperback)

Chapters: Joanna Macgregor, Thomas Ad s, Pawe? Przytocki, Kevin Noe, Karishmeh Felfeli, Phyllis Litoff, Martyn Brabbins, Tony Dudley-Evans, Artistic Director. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Joanna MacGregor (born 16 July 1959) is an internationally renowned classical, jazz and contemporary pianist. She is also a promoter, an artistic director, an educator and runs her own record label SoundCircus. She grew up in North London, England and was educated at home by her Seventh-day Adventist parents until she attended South Hampstead High School at the age of 11. Her mother is a piano teacher who studied at the Royal Academy of Music. Joanna studied music at New Hall, University of Cambridge (197881) and was taught by Hugh Wood. After Cambridge, she did a Masters in performance at the Royal Academy of Music, London, with Christopher Elton. She also studied at the Van Cliburn Piano Institute in Texas which included masterclasses with Jorge Bolet. In the early years of her career, she made a living from writing music for TV. Her first significant break was being selected as an artist for the Young Concert Artists Trust in 1985. Her next major break was a record deal with Collins Classics, with whom she made fifteen recordings for. These recordings tend towards 20th century composers such as Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Bart k, Ives, Messaien, Birtwistle, Britten and Hugh Wood. There are also recordings of Bach and Scarlatti. In 1998, she launched her own record label SoundCircus in association with Unknown Public. The label combines new recordings with re-releases of the Collins material. MacGregor was able to buy back the rights to these Collins recordings. The must successful release on Soundcircus was "Play," a diverse collection mainly of solo piano pi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=44401