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Extractions: last update 3 May 2004 "A pianist from music's leading edge." - The New York Times "Nonken's performances are marvels of keyboard mastery and musical command." - The Boston Globe ("Best of '97, '99, '00, '01, '02") "Sensitive, technical and cutting-edge all describe pianist Marilyn Nonken's musical style." - The San Francisco Examiner "This pianist enthusiastically explores modern and other contemporary areas where a lot of pianists fear to hang out, and she packs enough artistry and technique for the journey." - The Village Voice Marilyn Nonken - photo by Richard Termine -
Marilyn Nonken, Pianist: Boston Globe 10.31.00 Review pianist marilyn nonken s performance of Charles Ives s Concord Sonata and works ofMichael Finnissy reviewed by the Boston Globe s Michael Manning. http://www.ensemble21.com/nonken/mn.globe1000.html
Extractions: MUSIC REVIEW Nonken Reigns By Michael Manning, Globe Correspondent, 10/31/00 Saturday night in Brandeis University's Slosberg Recital Hall, Marilyn Nonken performed one of this or any year's best and most demanding recitals of 20th-century piano music. Titled ''American Spiritual,'' her program comprised works by the American Charles Ives and by the English composer so beholden to him, Michael Finnissy, in whose ''North American Spirituals'' her exceptionally musical approach did the most. Finnissy's music has been described as severe, although the present selections (which also included "Kemp's Morris," written in 1978) are considerably less aurally contentious than his "Seventeen Immortal Homosexual Poets" heard locally less than two years ago. Nonken's performances, which stressed lyricism, abounded in color and nuance, made convincing contextual and rhythmic sense of the sudden storms of sound and the prolonged buffers of silence, and brought clarity and direction to the sometimes self-obfuscating complexity of Finnissy's textures. In ''Kemp's Morris,'' the composer has the pianist wear bells on the wrist, a variant of the Morris dancing tradition of wearing them on the legs. Nonken's attention to the choreography of her hands added that extra measure of control that elevated it beyond mere effect or affectation. Ives's ''Concord Sonata'' is that composer's titanic contribution to the piano's literature, and few are the pianists who can manage it. Even fewer have managed it as well as Nonken, who again employed proven pianistic virtues in the rendering of a wholly original and radical work of art.
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Extractions: - Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe ("Best of '97") Marilyn Nonken has emerged as one of the most gifted young musicians dedicated to the modern repertoire. Upon her New York debut, she was heralded as "a determined protector of important music" (New York Times). Her Boston debut was distinguished as a highlight of the season (Boston Globe, "Best of '97"). She was voted the "Best of '99" by the Boston Globe when she returned two years later. Ms. Nonken's performances have been presented by Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, IRCAM, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, the Guggenheim Museum, Miller Theatre, the Flea Theatre, the Greenwich House of Music, and the Musikakademie Rheinsberg. Recent contemporary festival appearances include Sonic Boom, June in Buffalo, SCI, Sound/Unbound, The ThreeTwo Festival of New Music, New Music July, and the Third International Festival of New Piano Music. Also an acclaimed chamber performer, she appears regularly with the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society and Ensemble 21, the New Music group of which she is Artistic Director and a co-founder. She has been a guest soloist with League/ISCM Chamber Players, the Brandeis Contemporary Chamber Players, Composers Concordance, and the New Music ensembles of Columbia and New York Universities. Next year she will perform in Alice Tully Hall with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Highlights of Ms. Nonken's 2000-01 season include performances of Jean Barraqué's massive Sonate pour Piano, Charles Ives's legendary Concord Sonata, Michael Finnissy's "North American Spirituals" and "Kemp's Morris," Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Klavierstück IX," Olivier Messiaen's "Visions de l'Amen" (with pianist Phillip Bush), and the world premieres of David Rakowski's "12-Step Program," "Roll Your Own," and "Fists of Fury." In past seasons, she gave the US premieres of James Dillon's "Spleen" and Tristan Murail's "La Mandragore," the German premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen's "YTA II," and has collaborated with composers including Jonathan Harvey, Andrew Imbrie, and Lee Hyla.
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Extractions: MARILYN NONKEN , recently heralded as "a pianist from music's leading edge" (NY Times) and named "Best of 2000" by the Boston Globe, has emerged as one of the most gifted young performers of new music. Her performances have been presented by Carnegie Hall, IRCAM, Merkin Hall, the Guggenheim Museum, the Krannert Center, Miller Theatre, Harvard and Brandeis Universities, the Flea Theatre, Dartmouth College, and the Musikakademie Rheinsberg. Among the composers she has commissioned are Milton Babbitt, Jason Eckardt, Michael Finnissy, Jeff Nichols, and David Rakowski. She has recorded for Koch, New World Records, Lovely Music, and CRI with forthcoming releases on Metier and Mode. Most recently she commissioned new works from Mario Davidovsky and Tristan Murail. TITLES
CDeMUSIC: Marilyn Nonken experience they can t get from anyone else. marilyn nonken is a pianist devotedto the 20th and 21st-century repertoire and the promotion of its composers. http://www.cdemusic.org/artists/nonken.html
Extractions: Nonken has been presented by Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, IRCAM, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Guggenheim Museum, Miller Theatre, and has been a guest artist at many universities and conservatories. Composers who have written for her include Milton Babbitt, Mario Davidovsky, Jason Eckardt, Michael Finnissy, Tristan Murail ... She has collaborated with Jonathan Harvey, Alvin Lucier, Salvatore Martirano, Charles Wuorinen ... Her writings have been widely published, including an issue on performance practice that she guest edited for Contemporary Music Review. She is artistic director and co-founder of Ensemble 21, a contemporary music group based in New York City.
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Extractions: ISAM Home Since my late teens, when I discovered the music of Schoenberg and the postwar moderns, Ive been fascinated by the twentieth-century repertoire. In college, I was fortunate to study with a pioneer of new music piano performance, David Burge, for whom many landmark works were written, including George Crumbs Makrokosmos I . As my tastes have developed over the past decade, my repertoire now includes a variety of composers, ranging from Alvin Lucier, Mario Davidovsky, Milton Babbitt, Salvatore Martirano, and Charles Wuorinen to younger voices such as Lee Hyla, Jason Eckardt, Jeff Nichols, and David Rakowski. I generally find myself drawn to atonal works that are rhythmically adventurous, conceptually unusual, and physically demanding, and to composers with distinct voices and strong musical personalities. As a performer, I mediate the delicate space between the work as written and the music as heard. Composition, writes the composer Chris Dench, is the making manifest of a particular vision
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Extractions: USA EMAIL WEBSITE Pianist MARILYN NONKEN has emerged as one of the most gifted young musicians dedicated to the modern and contemporary repertoires. Upon her 1994 New York debut, she was heralded as "a determined protector of important music" (New York Times). Her Boston debut was distinguished as a highlight of the season (Boston Globe, "Best of '97"); she was named "Best of '99" by the Globe when she returned two years later. The New York Times recently called her "a pianist from music's leading edge." Ms. Nonken's performances have been presented by Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, IRCAM, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, the Guggenheim Museum, Miller Theatre, Harvard and Brandeis Universities, the Flea Theatre, Dartmouth and Oberlin Colleges, and the Musikakademie Rheinsberg. An acclaimed chamber musician, she plays with Ensemble 21, the New Music group of which she is Artistic Director and a co-founder, and she appeared with with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the ISCM Chamber Players, the Washington Square Contemporary Players, and Bargemusic. With a wide-ranging discography featuring releases on New World Records, Koch, Lovely Music, and CRI, Ms. Nonken has recorded music of composers diverse as Salvatore Martirano, Alvin Lucier, David Rakowski, William Albright, and Charles Wuorinen. A new CD of works written for her will be released by CRI in Spring 2001. Upcoming projects include recordings of Tristan Murail's complete piano music (Metier), Morton Feldman's "Triadic Memories" (Mode), and chamber music of Jason Eckardt (Mode, with Ensemble 21).
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JS Online: Pianist Manages To Make The Moderns Sing By TOM STRINI Journal Sentinel music critic. Last Updated Jan. 24, 2001. How deepis pianist marilyn nonken s commitment to contemporary American composers? http://www.jsonline.com/enter/performingarts/strini/jan01/nonken25012401.asp
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Extractions: Charles Ives Concord Sonata is a beast of a piece, with some of the literatures thorniest passages over its sprawling length (almost three-quarters of an hour) and requires an expert ability to sort out the textures disparate strands. A high percentage of the score contains densely written chords some would say "muddy" that also sound muddy if not clarified. As with voicing in Beethoven or other composers, the interpreter here needs to show the listener what to listen to to point the way amid the thickets. Granted, Ives may have intended some messiness as part of the effect, but the pianist still needs to say, "Here, look at this, even though there are a zillion other things fighting for your attention." Making short work of this complexity, Nonken more than proved her mettle by playing expert tour guide, and the results were scintillating. She was especially effective in the contrasts between crunchingly dense pages that abruptly disappear and in their wake are replaced by wispy soliloquies. As she raced around the keyboard, occasionally pausing for a hymn here and there, some might say this is Ives at his most maddeningly disorganized, but I find this piece exhilarating. It is also exhilarating watching a star pianist perform it, since it is horrendously difficult to play not only for "getting all the notes" but also in the stamina required.
Extractions: According to the composer, this piece is "a bit like walking through the streets of Berlin where all the buildings look alike, even if theyre not." If thats the case, perhaps we all should visit Berlin periodically, as Feldmans distinctive sound world is unlike any other, and in marked contrast to say, the "new complexity," just to cite a genre at the opposite end of the spectrum. This work, like many of his others, is long (ninety minutes without pause) and very soft; the dynamic level rarely rises above "ppp." It is a remarkable piece, especially when performed with the concentration and artistry shown here by the talented Marilyn Nonken. In her refreshingly straightforward program notes, she explained that she chose "to maintain a steady eighth-note pulse throughout that approximates the heart rate at rest." This is substantially slower than in some of the recordings (i.e., versions by Takahashi or Goldstein), and the result was an almost physical sense of tranquility that pervaded the performance and lingered for hours afterward.
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SFSU College Of Creative Arts 2002 Press Releases pianist marilyn nonken performs Signature Pieces, a body of work written for herby various composers, Thursday, October 3 at San Francisco State University. http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/prsrelea/fy02/allarts5.htm
Extractions: SAN FRANCISCO, September 6, 2002 San Francisco State University presents leading-edge pianist Marilyn Nonken in a rare San Francisco performance at 8:00 pm Thursday, October 3 in Knuth Hall. A new music enthusiast known for her superb technical style and sensitive interpretations, Ms. Nonken performs Signature Pieces , a recital of works written for her. The program features A Collection of Caprices (2002), a tribute to the great jazz pianist and Pulitzer prize-winning composer Mel Powell, by Paul Nauert; Sliding Scales and Twelve-Step Program (1999-2001), witty etudes exploring the limits of keyboard virtuosity, by David Rakowski; Echoes' White Veil (1996), a work inspired by the poetry of W.S. Merwin, by Jason Eckardt, a composer trained in jazz and fascinated by the New Complexity; Allegro Penseros (1999), a vivacious, dance-like piece from the grandfather of American music and a wedding gift to Ms. Nonken, by Milton Babbitt, and Michael Finnissys North American Spirituals (1998), a British composer's homage to the American experimental tradition of Ives, Ruggles and Cage.
Public Affairs 2002 Press Releases 11. September 6 pianist marilyn nonken performs Signature Pieces, Thursday,October 3 at SFSU. September 6 Morrison Artists Series St. http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/prsrelea/pbaff02.htm
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