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Tristan Murail: Complete Works For Piano

Audiences who have enjoyed Marilyn’s double cd of Murail’s complete piano music will now have a chance to hear these incredible works live. 2010-2011 features performances of her complete Murail in Philadelphia (Bowerbird) and Vancouver (UBC’s Noon Hour Concerts) -- More dates to be announced. Andy Hamilton of The Wire describes Marilyn's Murail as "luminous, showing delicacy, drama and passion and seeming to capture every nuance of this beautiful music…"

Visions De L'Amen Live And On Disc

The reviews are beginning to come in for Marilyn Nonken and Sarah Rothenberg’s new Messiaen CD (Bridge 9324). Daniel Buckley of Stereophile Magazine describes it as " ... never on record with this sense of clarity, commitment and power. Both the performance and the recording are stunning." Don’t miss the upcoming performance on 2 August at New York’s (Le) Poisson Rouge

The People United: A Chilean-American Celebration

Marilyn Nonken will perform Frederic Rzewski’s classic “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!” in Santiago, Chile, this 2 November. The work, an epic variations set on Sergio Ortega’s protest anthem, will be performed in celebration of the Chilean bicentennial. A guest of the Instituto Chileno Norteamericano, she will also present, on the same program, the world premiere of “Blues en el Corazon,” by the Chilean-American composer Miguel Chuaqui. Of Ms. Nonken’s 2005 New York performance of the Rzewski work, The New York Times wrote: “Ms. Nonken's playing was the victory of a survivor who had met every mood and outburst head on and with style, outlasting every obstacle.”

Marilyn Nonken In Print: Messiaen, Murail, and Harvey

Marilyn Nonken’s forthcoming publications include chapters featured in two books from Ashgate. Her “From Messiaen to Murail, or What Sounds Become” will be featured in “Perspectives on French Piano Music” (eds. Scott McCarrey and Lesley A. Wright). “Jonathan Harvey’s ‘Tombeau de Messiaen’: A Deeper Level of Spectralism” will be included in “Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence, and Reception” (eds. Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon).