This album was recorded at Oktaven Audio in Yonkers, New York, across several dates in 2021 and 2022, and was produced and engineered by Ryan Streber.
Compositional Technique
The opening pieces on the album reference the piano's complex origins as both a string and percussion instrument, evoking sounds of instruments like the tar, guitar, oud, qanun (zither), and tmpoug (a drum).
Compositional Technique
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh's "Music for Piano" combines Western compositional techniques with the scales and cyclical structure of the Azerbaijani Mugham tradition, using a glass-bead necklace on the lower strings to create tar-like resonances.
Album & Artwork
The album "MIRAGE" is a collection of sonic illusions, allusions, and transformations that highlight the piano's ability to imitate and morph into other instruments.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album's title, "MIRAGE," points to the illusive and elusive aspects of transformative processes in music, and the ongoing conversation between tradition and innovation in piano music.
Compositional Technique
Helmut Lachenmann's "Guero" is a revolutionary work that turns the piano into a giant scraper, requiring the pianist to glide fingers across keys, pluck keys and strings, and flick tuning pegs.
Performer Biography
Mirna Lekić, the pianist on this album, was born and raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is now a pianist and educator living in New York City.
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