Bach Marathon Hour Six: Midnight to 1am
Your host is Mark Hinkley
This hour’s lineup, with performer bios and program notes:
Anna Mnich (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
From the archives: Bach to the Future IV (2016)
Passaggio-Presto, Sarabande and Bouree from Lute Suite in e minor
Classical guitarist Anna Mnich is an active performer based in Brooklyn. She has appeared in various New York City venues such as the New York Historical Society, the Long Island Guitar Festival, the Pilsudski Institute of America in New York, the 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony, Collabfest, Dance Now Joe’s Pub Festival. In 2015 she was a guest artist at the Guitarfest in New Jersey. She also actively collaborates with other musicians and dance groups. Her recent work in collaboration with a choreographer and double bass player was shown at the 2018 NACHMO Festival in New York City. As a member of Silesian Guitar Octet, Mnich gave concerts in Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary. She has also recorded with Polish Radio National Symphonic Orchestra of Katowice.
Mnich is a laureate of the Andres Segovia Award from the Manhattan School of Music, as well as several international guitar competitions ( the John Duarte Guitar Competition, the Sanok Guitar Meetings, the Kielce Guitar Competition). Originally from Poland, Mnich started playing guitar at the age of ten in the studio of Amadeusz Kokot. She holds degrees from the Academy of Music in Katowice, and the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Wanda Palacz and David Starobin respectively. www.annamnich.com
A Far Cry with Simone Dinnerstein on piano (Boston, MA, USA)
Area, Variation 1, 7, 15, 22 from The Goldberg Variations
Called a “world-wide phenomenon” by Boston’s WBUR, A Far Cry has nurtured a distinct approach to music-making since its founding in 2007. The self-conducted orchestra is a democracy in which decisions are made collectively and leadership rotates among the players (“Criers”). This structure has led to consistently thoughtful, innovative, and unpredictable programming — and impactful collaborations with celebrated performers and composers. Over the past year, A Far Cry has risen to the top of Billboard’s Traditional Classical Chart, been named Boston’s best classical ensemble by The Improper Bostonian, and celebrated two Grammy nominations for its Visions and Variations. www.afarcry.org
The New York-based pianist Simone Dinnerstein gained an international following because of the remarkable success of her recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, which she raised the funds to record. Released in 2007 on Telarc, it ranked No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Classical Chart in its first week of sales and was named to many “Best of 2007” lists including those of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The New Yorker. Ms. Dinnerstein’s performance schedule has taken her around the world since her triumphant New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in 2005 to venues including the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and London’s Wigmore Hall; festivals that include the Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart Festival, the Aspen, Verbier, and Ravinia festivals, and the Stuttgart Bach Festival. Ms. Dinnerstein has played concerts throughout the U.S. for the Piatigorsky Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing classical music to non-traditional venues. She gave the first classical music performance in the Louisiana state prison system when she played at the Avoyelles Correctional Center, and performed at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in a concert organized by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Dedicated to her community, in 2009 Dinnerstein founded Neighborhood Classics, a concert series open to the public hosted by New York public schools which raises funds for the schools. Ms. Dinnerstein is a graduate of The Juilliard School where she was a student of Peter Serkin. She also studied with Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music and in London with Maria Curcio.
Sanggar Kembang Ceraki
Canon II from the Art of Fugue (arranged by I Putu Arya Deva Suryanegara)
Performers : I Putu Gede Sukaryana (Balot), leader I Putu Arya Deva Suryanegara, I Gede Putu Resky Gita Adhi Pratista, I Komang Pasek Wijaya, I Gede Putu Gita Kumara Putra, I Putu Purwwangsa Nagara, I Putu Suta Muliartawan, Ida Bagus Hery Yoga Permadi, I Wayan Situbanda, I Wayan Ari Widyantara, Yan Priya Kumara Janardhana, I Gusti Putu Arya Wira Kusuma, I Made Alit Widiarsana, I Made Rika Pradivta, I Gede Wahyu Kurniawan
The musicians/performers live in Bali. The project was conceived by John Noise Manis (in Italy), who made the initial adaptation to the gamelan scale, and mastered the audio files. Jonathan Adams (USA) made sound and video recordings and compiled the extensive liner notes for the album (iTunes). Videos may be found on YouTube searching Yantra Gamelan www.gamelan.gs
J. P. A. Falzone (Buffalo, NY, USA)
Sublunar Harmonies II, composed by J.P.A. Falzone
P. A. Falzone lived in Providence for many years formative to his musical life. He is a member of the musician-collective Ordinary Affects and is also now a PhD student in composition at SUNY Buffalo: https://soundcloud.com/j-p-a-falzone