Monthly Archives: August 2021

CD ‘Fantasy’ Laura Kaminsky: scintillating music featuring star pianist Ursula Oppens

Posted on August 27, 2021 by Thea Derks

In the United States she is a celebrity, but in the Netherlands Laura Kaminsky (1956) is fairly unknown. Undeservedly so, because her music is both powerful and poetic and has an effervescent energy. The recently released CD Fantasy contains four … Continue reading →

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From the meaningful to the elusive – An interview with cellist-composer Wilma Pistorius

Posted on August 18, 2021 by Thea Derks

Her website sums it up nicely. At the age of three, Wilma Pistorius found herself irrevocably drawn to a cellist playing on the street; a year later she started her cello lessons. She not only learned to play the instrument … Continue reading →

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Cecilie Ore: ‘I did not choose composition, composition chose me!

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Thea Derks

While studying piano in Paris, Cecilie Ore realised that she was more of a creator than a performer. She switched to composition and moved to Amsterdam to study with Ton de Leeuw. This autumn her H2O-Trilogy for string quartet will … Continue reading →

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Italian pianist strikes Ukrainian stillness at heart

Posted on August 2, 2021 by Thea Derks

An Italian label promoting piano music of a Ukrainian composer, it does not seem the most likely combination. Yet earlier this year, the CD Handsome Skies featuring piano works by Valentin Silvestrov (1937) arrived on my doorstep, sent from Rome … Continue reading →

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