Thank you to all!

To all who came out for

twentieth

century

musings

This past Thursday, thank you! It was a great success of a recital. The energy from the audience was magnetic, and I enjoyed every moment of it. My favorite comments must have been those along the lines of:

"I didn't even know that I enjoyed contemporary music.."

To which I reply, wonderful.

The recordings and videos will be up soon. Be sure to enter the code on the front of the program notes in order to download them for free!

Again, thank you, and please, please come again.

Cheers,

C

Concert Day - What do I do now?

Tonight is my "twentieth century musings" recital at Mazzoleni Hall!

But that's not until 8pm.

And for now, I am at home. Racking my brain, and CD collection for things to do and to listen to. Right now, I've got on Rea Beaumont's recording of Chan Ka Nin - In Search of ...

My exact feeling - in search of something to take my mind off the impending performance, which I am quite excited about.

It's amazing that in 15 years of doing this performing thing, I've never developed a pre-concert routine. I just know the DON'Ts:

DON'T practice (too much)

DON'T sleep too little

DON'T sleep all day..

DON'T eat foods that make you sleepy

DON'T do strenuous exercise.

But what to DO?

DO write in your blog...

In any case, this is a problem for me to ponder. I hope to see some of you at the concert tonight. It's one that I'm proud of and one that I think will be quite enjoyable - fans of new music or not.

Until then,

Claudia

... Of Something.

This is my new blog.

It's called On the Verge, because that's my most consistent (among many other fluctuating) feeling about music these days. I am On The Verge.. of Something. This might be my journey to find out what.

Also, it's a way to stay in touch with all of you.

Through this link on the instantencore webpage, you'll be able to comment about performances, send me any ideas you might have, hear how projects are coming along.

There's a lot in the works now -

• Twentieth-Century Musings - in recital at the Royal Conservatory next Thursday February 11th (check back here after show for recordings and post-recital mumblings)
  
• A performance as part of a new un-named play by playwright George Sanford about Robert and Clara Schumann
• Prep for the Eckhardt-Gramatte competition at Brandon U in May
• Development of "What am I Listening to Again?!" workshops for High School Students with the Ensemble for the Rest of Time
• and summer, oh summer, what a stressful and wonderful time for musicians..!

I look forward to writing this blog, and I hope that you might like to read it.

Keep in touch..

as I am always trying to.

Claudia