November 2018 Album Reviews
Each month, PARMA has the great pleasure of not only releasing powerful works by our artists, but also seeing the positive impact that these works have on listeners. Read on to hear a selection of what [...]
THE INSIDE STORY: Mark Lieb and JOHANNES BRAHMS / ELLIOTT CARTER: CLARINET QUINTETS
Clarinetist Mark Lieb is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Phoenix Ensemble. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and The Juilliard School, where he studied clarinet performance with Robert Marcellus, former Principal clarinet with [...]
THE INSIDE STORY: Scott Perkins and WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH
Connecticut native Scott Perkins enjoys a multifaceted career as an international prize-winning composer, a versatile performer, an award-winning scholar, and a music professor at California State University, Sacramento. Praised by critics from publications including the Washington Post (“dramatic,” [...]
THE INSIDE STORY: Elizabeth Vercoe and BUTTERFLY EFFECTS
A champion of women's music, composer Elizabeth Vercoe has been hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the most inventive composers working in America today” and by Gardner Read as “an exceptionally gifted composer with [...]
Catching up with Art Gottschalk
Art's signature on the MacDowell "tombstone" On a brief break during his fellowship at the MacDowell Colony, composer and educator Arthur Gottschalk spoke with PARMA Publicity Manager Scott Feldman about ... everything. Arthur Gottschalk [...]
THE INSIDE STORY: Skip Livingston and GENTLE WINDS
Samuel A. "Skip" Livingston was born in Chicago in 1942 and grew up in the Pittsburgh area. During 1966 and 1967, he was a member of the U.S. 4th Armored Division Band; other than that, he has [...]
November 2018: New Releases from Navona and Ravello Records
With the arrival of September comes the welcoming in of crisper temperatures, colorful foliage – and here at PARMA, an array of captivating new music. From the second installment in our electro-acoustic series to a Spanish and Portuguese-inspired duet, our September releases are as vibrant and stirring as the beginning of autumn itself. Read on… Continue Reading →
THE INSIDE STORY: Debra Nagy and SONGS WITHOUT WORDS
Praised for her “dazzling technique and soulful expressiveness,” (Rocky Mountain News), and a musical approach that’s “distinctly sensual…pliant, warm, and sweet,” (New York Times), Debra Nagy is one of North America’s leading performers on the Baroque [...]
THE INSIDE STORY: Clive Muncaster and LEGENDS & LIGHT
Clive Muncaster was born in Sussex England in 1936. At age 12, Clive was taken to an orchestral concert at The Royal Albert Hall in London, and was so enthralled that he then decided he wanted [...]
THE INSIDE STORY: Jan Järvlepp and LEGENDS & LIGHT
Jan Järvlepp was born in Ottawa Canada. He began playing pop guitar at the age of 12 and took up cello in high school at 14. He also learned to play bass guitar and harmonica. At [...]