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Marilyn Nonken is one of the most celebrated champions of the modern repertoire of her generation, known for performances that explore transcendent virtuosity and extremes of musical expression. Upon her 1993 New York debut, she was heralded as "a determined protector of important music" (New York Times). Acclaimed internationally as a soloist, she is also known for her work with Ensemble 21 (of which she is a co-founder) and the Australian ensemble Elision. Composers who have written for her include Milton Babbitt, Pascal Dusapin, Michael Finnissy, Liza Lim, Tristan Murail, and David Rakowski, as well as emerging Americans Jason Eckardt, Laurie San Martin, and David Langanella. She has recorded for New World, Bridge, Mode, Cairos, Lovely Music, Albany, Metier, Divine Art, Innova, CRI, Tzadik, and New Focus; a recent release is Rakowski’s Piano Concerto (Boston Modern Orchestra Project, under Gil Rose,) and upcoming releases include Brian Ferneyhough’s Les Froissements des Ailes de Gabriel and La chute d’Icare (Elision, under Jean DeRoyer), Olivier Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen(with Sarah Rothenberg), and Roger Reynolds's Angel of Death. Her 2009-2010 season highlights include the world premiere of new works written for her by Richard Beaudoin, Elizabeth Hoffman, and David Rakowski; two concerts at The Festival of American Music; and performances of Tristan Murail's Territoires de l'Oubli and Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories.
Marilyn Nonken was a student of David Burge at the Eastman School and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Currently Director of Piano Studies at New York University’s Steinhardt School, she is a Steinway artist.
http://www.marilynnonken.com/
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Sarah Rothenberg, an artist of "power and introspection" (New York Times) and a "prolific and creative thinker" (Wall Street Journal) has an unusual and distinguished career as pianist, artistic director, and writer. Recognized internationally for her innovative programming, performances include Great Performers at Lincoln Center, Washington’s Kennedy Center, London’s Barbican Centre, Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), The Menil Collection, Guggenheim Museum, Getty Museum, Library of Congress and leading concert series across the United States. Recordings include Fanny Mendelssohn's Das Jahr (Indie Award Best Solo Classical Recording); Rediscovering the Russian Avant-Garde 1912-1925: Roslavetz, Mosolov, Lourié; Shadows and Fragments: Brahms and Schoenberg. Over 75 premieres include works by Charles Wuorinen, George Tsontakis, Gunther Schuller, Shulamit Ran and, forthcoming, Tobias Picker. Active as a writer, her essays appear in literary, art and music publications, including Threepenny Review, Brick, Conjunctions, Nexus, Tri-Quarterly, Chamber Music, and The Musical Quarterly.
Sarah is Artistic Director of Da Camera of Houston, and was previously co-founder and co-artistic director of the Bard Music Festival. She has conceived, directed and performed performances linking music to the visual arts and literature including Marcel Proust's Paris, The Musical World of Thomas Mann, St. Petersburg Legacy (all for Lincoln Center Great Performers and Da Camera of Houston); The Blue Rider: Kandinsky and Music (for Works & Process at the Guggenheim and Miller Theatre, New York) and Chopin in Paris: Epigraph for a Condemned Book (co-commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre, UMS Ann Arbor, Krannert Center for Performing Arts and Da Camera of Houston). She received the French medal of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters in 2000.
Following her graduation from The Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Seymour Lipkin and Mieczeslaw Horszowski, Sarah lived in Paris and studied the music of Messiaen with Yvonne Loriod, who wrote: "Sarah Rothenberg is richly gifted: generous, sensitive, fiery, intelligent. This is a 'Presence' at the piano, a flame between the composer and the public!" Olivier Messiaen wrote, "A magnificent pianist."
http://www.dacamera.com/about/sarah_rothenberg
Marilyn Nonken was a student of David Burge at the Eastman School and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Currently Director of Piano Studies at New York University’s Steinhardt School, she is a Steinway artist.
http://www.marilynnonken.com/
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Sarah Rothenberg, an artist of "power and introspection" (New York Times) and a "prolific and creative thinker" (Wall Street Journal) has an unusual and distinguished career as pianist, artistic director, and writer. Recognized internationally for her innovative programming, performances include Great Performers at Lincoln Center, Washington’s Kennedy Center, London’s Barbican Centre, Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), The Menil Collection, Guggenheim Museum, Getty Museum, Library of Congress and leading concert series across the United States. Recordings include Fanny Mendelssohn's Das Jahr (Indie Award Best Solo Classical Recording); Rediscovering the Russian Avant-Garde 1912-1925: Roslavetz, Mosolov, Lourié; Shadows and Fragments: Brahms and Schoenberg. Over 75 premieres include works by Charles Wuorinen, George Tsontakis, Gunther Schuller, Shulamit Ran and, forthcoming, Tobias Picker. Active as a writer, her essays appear in literary, art and music publications, including Threepenny Review, Brick, Conjunctions, Nexus, Tri-Quarterly, Chamber Music, and The Musical Quarterly.
Sarah is Artistic Director of Da Camera of Houston, and was previously co-founder and co-artistic director of the Bard Music Festival. She has conceived, directed and performed performances linking music to the visual arts and literature including Marcel Proust's Paris, The Musical World of Thomas Mann, St. Petersburg Legacy (all for Lincoln Center Great Performers and Da Camera of Houston); The Blue Rider: Kandinsky and Music (for Works & Process at the Guggenheim and Miller Theatre, New York) and Chopin in Paris: Epigraph for a Condemned Book (co-commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre, UMS Ann Arbor, Krannert Center for Performing Arts and Da Camera of Houston). She received the French medal of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters in 2000.
Following her graduation from The Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Seymour Lipkin and Mieczeslaw Horszowski, Sarah lived in Paris and studied the music of Messiaen with Yvonne Loriod, who wrote: "Sarah Rothenberg is richly gifted: generous, sensitive, fiery, intelligent. This is a 'Presence' at the piano, a flame between the composer and the public!" Olivier Messiaen wrote, "A magnificent pianist."
http://www.dacamera.com/about/sarah_rothenberg