Philip Glass’s Complete Piano Etudes With Maki Namekawa Reissued

ORANGE MOUNTAIN MUSIC SET TO BEGIN
PRE-RELEASING PHILIP GLASS: THE COMPLETE PIANO ETUDES WITH PIANIST MAKI NAMEKAWA
OCTOBER 21

FULL 20-TRACK DOUBLE CD AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 25

ALL 20 ETUDES TO BE PERFORMED OVER TWO EVENINGS AT BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC DECEMBER 5 & 6

On October 21 Orange Mountain Music will begin pre-releasing Philip Glass: The Complete Piano Etudes with pianist Maki Namekawa—a 20-track double album of solo piano pieces by Glass performed by the acclaimed piano virtuoso. For those who pre-order the album, two tracks will be released each week for five weeks on iTunes exclusively, with the full album becoming available November 25.

Glass’s Etudes reflect two decades of composition, ranging from 1994–2014. He composed and recorded the original set of 10 for himself, reportedly to improve his piano technique, but never published the music for other pianists to perform. The second set of 10, finished in 2013 and never before recorded, became specifically about writing for the instrument and for other pianists.

Finally, on December 5 and 6, audiences will have the opportunity to hear all of Glass’s Etudes performed live when the Brooklyn Academy of Music presents all 20 over the course of two evenings. Pianists include Glass himself plus Maki Namekawa, Nico Muhly, Timo Andres, Bruce Levingston, Sally Whitwell, Anton Batagov, Aaron Diehl, Tania León and Jenny Lin. Tickets and information available HERE.

ABOUT PHILIP GLASS
For more than five decades, Philip Glass continues to be at the forefront of contemporary music and art. In the early 1960s, Glass spent two years of intensive study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and, while there, earned money by transcribing Ravi Shankar’s Indian music into Western notation. By 1974 Glass had a number of innovative projects, creating a large collection of new music for The Philip Glass Ensemble and for the Mabou Mines Theater Company. This period culminated in Music in Twelve Parts and the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, for which he collaborated with Robert Wilson. Since Einstein, Glass has expanded his repertoire to include music for opera, dance, theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra and film. His scores have received Academy Award nominations (Kundun, The Hours, Notes on a Scandal) and a Golden Globe (The Truman Show). Several new works have been unveiled, including two operas in 2013 (The Lost, for the opening of the new opera house in Linz Austria, and The Perfect American, about the death of Walt Disney). Glass’s newest opera, based on Kafka’s The Trial, premieres at London’s Covent Garden in October 2014. The Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel with Katia and Marielle Labeque will premiere his Concerto for Two Pianos & Orchestra in May 2015.

ABOUT MAKI NAMEKAWA
Pianist Maki Namekawa’s recent engagements include the Royal Concertgebouw Orkest Amsterdam, Munich Philharmonic, Munich Chamber Orchestra with the Ligeti Piano Concerto, Dresden Philharmonie, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchesra and Bruckner Orchester Linz. With the Seattle Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies she performed Hovhaness’s Lousadzak. In 2012 she performed Arvo Pärt’s Lamentate at Carnegie Hall and Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments with the Bamberger Symphoniker. In 2013, Namekawa performed at the Perth International Arts Festival with Philip Glass in the world premiere of his Complete Etudes for Piano.

Since 2005, Maki Namekawa and Davies have been performing together as a piano duo in Europe and the U.S. including at Lincoln Center Festival in New York with the U.S. premiere of Philip Glass’s Four Movements for Two Pianos, followed by the world premiere of Glass’s Stoker at the Morgan Library in New York. Maki is a frequent guest of Ruhr Piano Festival where in 2013 the Namekawa-Davies duo performed the world premiere of Glass’s Two Movements for Four Pianos with Katia and Marielle Labèque.

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