The Piano Diaries: with Róisín Adams
An Introspective sunset piano recital performed by Róisín Adams in Clark Park
Wednesday, July 13, 2022.
Program:
What is a piece of music that reminds you of a special person?
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, (Sonata Pathétique), II: adagio cantabile (1798)
What is a piece of music that to you could encapsulate your pandemic experience?
Prelude Op. 28, No. 15, by Frédéric Chopin, known as the "Raindrop” (1839)
Is there a piece of music you keep coming back to throughout your career?
Debussy: Children's Corner, L. 113: 1. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (1906)
What about music by a composer whose work/life/history you really connect with?
Chick Corea - 4 children’s songs 4 (No. 3, 5, 6, 7) (1984)
What music makes you feel the most relaxed?
Meredith Monk - Ellis Island
Is there any music you know that kind of hurts to play, in the best kind of way? And does the thought of performing it scare you?
Pauline Oliveros - Norwegian wood
What music makes you feel nostalgic?
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou - Homesick Wonderer.
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Is there a piece of music that makes you feel romantic?
Noridorum Sihanouk pieces 3
Róisín Adams Biography:
Hailed as “a master composer and improviser” by The North Shore News, Vancouver-based Róisín Adams’ visionary work combines ethereal, textured melodicism with an underpinning of intellectual rigor.
An imaginative and immensely prolific composer, pianist, bandleader and educator, Adams is also an astute collaborator in a range of projects. She founded the improvisatory instrumental jazz quartet Hildegard’s Ghost in 2013, and also performs with contemporary acoustic trio Adams/Hopkins/Romain and in drummer Dan Gauchier's Stop Time III.
Early training from the Royal Conservatory of Music provided a classical foundation
Adams has expanded upon through studies with jazz and avant-garde artists Lisa Cay Miller, Kris Davis, Sharon Minemoto, Alan Matheson and François Houle. Her compositions have been performed by Ellwood Epps, Vicky Mettler, Elisa Thorn, Michael James Park, Rachel Iwaasa, Catherine Laub and the NOW Society Orchestra.
Her work has been featured at the Silk Purse Jazz Waves Series, Queer Arts Festival, Sonic Boom Festival, Western Front, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Kay Meek Theatre, and TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
Adams was a recipient of a Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity residency (2017), Vancouver Community College Contemporary Composition Award (2013), Chris Gage Memorial Award, Fred Bass Scholarship, and the Andres Alejandro Espinoza Memorial Scholarship. She has also been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts (2016), Creative BC Music Fund (2017), British Columbia Arts Council (2018) and SOCAN Foundation (2018).
In January, 2019, the Vancouver Park Board awarded Adams a three-year Field House Artist residency. Music off the Page project is a community engaged arts practice that explores interdisciplinary collaborations and contemporary music discourse with participants of all ages and abilities.
She is currently working with composer/pianist Amanda Tosoff, studying composition and contemporary/jazz piano with the assistance of the BC Arts Council.
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