Pianist Marilyn Nonken has been recognized as "one of the greatest interpreters of new music" and is a Steinway Artist.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Hugues Dufourt aims to develop a pianistic language that reclaims the 'interiority' of Romantic-era music for modern composition, allowing performers more interpretive freedom.
Composer Biography
Hugues Dufourt earned his first academic degree in philosophy before studying music and continued to pursue academic projects alongside his compositional career.
Composer Biography
Hugues Dufourt, the composer, is a polymathic figure, also known as a theorist and philosopher, who has drawn inspiration from painting and architecture.
Recording & Production
This recording was made in the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in upstate New York, a Beaux Arts building with grand but faded frescos.
Performer Biography
Jonathan Haas, the conductor, is acclaimed for his performances of Philip Glass's Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, which he commissioned and has performed seventy times worldwide.
Compositional Technique
Dufourt is one of the founding composers of the French spectral school of composition, a term he himself coined.
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