Ars Electronica Home Delivery Live Stream Concerts 2020

In the course of Ars Electronica’s “Home Delivery Live Stream Concerts”, piano duo Maki Namekawa & Dennis Russell Davies played a series of 11 concerts in the Ars Electronica Center Piano Room in Austria with real time visualizations by Cori O’Lan.

Maki Namekawa and Philip Glass after the premiere of the Piano Sonata © Klavier-Festival Ruhr / Sven Lorenz

Namekawa breathes this music… -> Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Review

On July 4th, 2019 Maki Namekawa premiered the Piano Sonata by Philip Glass at Pianofestival Ruhr in the German town of Essen. The “Salzlager” in the “Zeche Zollverein” was sold out in anticipation of the first piano sonata by the great American composer. After the performance Maki Namekawa and Philip Glass received standing ovations by …

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NYTimes Review

New York Times, Nov, 20 2019, by Zachary Woolfe, Photo by Hiroyuki Ito Review: Philip Glass, at 82, Unveils His First Piano Sonata Thousands of people took in the bronzed, glacial grandeur of Philip Glass’s “Akhnaten” at the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday evening. A couple of miles downtown, a far smaller group heard a very …

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VIDEO: Rehearsing with Philip Glass

In June ’19 Maki spent a week in her home in New York to rehearse with Philip Glass for the premiere of his first Piano Sonata on July 4th at Klavierfestival Ruhr.