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Pianist Clare Longendyke Releases Debut Album “…of dreams unveiled” With Works by Amy Williams, Anthony R. Green, and Claude Debussy
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Pianist Clare Longendyke Releases Debut Album
“…of dreams unveiled”
With Works by Amy Williams, Anthony R. Green, and Claude Debussy
Available March 1, 2024
“Masterful… she fully captured the atmospheric quality of the music in a performance of great virtuosity and delicacy.” - Hyde Park Herald
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Clare Longendyke, a pianist with “an artistic ferocity that captivated and astonished listeners” (Waverly Newspapers), will release her debut album “… of dreams unveiled”, on March 1, 2024. This album features commissioned works by Amy Williams (b. 1969) and Anthony R. Green (b.1984), alongside selections from Piano Preludes, Books I and II by Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Longendyke is committed to guiding audiences towards classical music’s more inclusive future by commissioning and performing new works by living composers alongside her favorite works from the past. Her artistic mission is “to expand the concert stage by illuminating the dark corners of classical music’s past where the work of female composers and composers of color is too often shelved.”
This album of solo piano repertoire is steeped in Debussy-an language, though the concept for the project did not begin with Debussy but with Amy Williams, whose work Longendyke champions. Williams’s Piano Portraits: Books I and II, composed in 2019-20, are inspired by the influential pianists in the composer’s life. Longendyke commissioned the Piano Portraits: Book II from Williams. Selections heard on the album from Piano Portraits include Olga, Yvar, Frieda, Nils, Helena, and Ursula.
Anthony R. Green's composition To Anacreon in the US (2019) acts as a postlude to Debussy’s prelude Feux d’artifice (1912-13). Using the American national anthem as its primary theme, Green’s piece teases apart the main melody, transforming and developing the music in Debussy-esque ways, all within a framework that ends this album with a bang. Two newly commissioned works are “Fugue — suivant ‘Des pas sur la neige’” (Album 1) written in 2022, which acts as a response to Debussy’s “Des pas sur la neige” prelude (1909-10), and “Fugue — suivant ‘Minstrels’” (Album 2) holds the place as a postlude to Debussy’s “Minstrels” (1909-10).
Longendyke is set to release the second part of the album in 2026. The album “...of dreams unveiled,” will be available on all major streaming platforms starting on March 1, 2024.
More about Clare Longendyke
Clare Longendyke is a soloist, chamber musician, and musical innovator who performs with American orchestras and on recital series around the world. Recent highlights include performances of concertos by Mozart, Falla, Rachmaninoff, Florence Price, and Joan Tower with orchestras in Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana, and Virginia. In the last decade, she has commissioned over 30 new solo and chamber music works and has been involved in over 200 world premiere performances.
Clare’s performance highlights include The University of Chicago Presents, The Schubert Club of Minnesota, The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (St. Paul, MN), Sandler Center for the Performing Arts (Virginia Beach, VA), The Palladium (Carmel, IN), and Olin Arts Center (Lewiston, ME). Recent orchestral partners include Symphonicity (VA), Rochester Symphony Orchestra (MN), and Oak Ridge Symphony (TN). Her playing has also been heard on NPR's Performance Today. For more information about Clare Longendyke, visit www.clarelongendyke.com
US Performances
Jan. 31, 2024: The Palladium in Carmel, IN
Presented by The Center for the Performing Arts
Feb. 3, 2024: Private Concert in Zionsville, IN
Presented by Bach to Rock
Feb. 4, 2024: White Chapel in Terre-Haute, IN
Presented by the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Feb. 9, 2024: LIVE at Wisconsin Public Radio
Feb. 25, 2024: Gideon Ives Auditorium in Bloomington, MN
Presented by the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra
Mar. 11, 2024: LIVE at WFMT
Mar. 23, 2024: Mayo Civic Center Presentation Hall in Rochester, MN
Presented by the Rochester Symphony Orchestra
April 7, 2024: Spectrum NYC, Brooklyn, NY
April 17, 2024: White Chapel in Terre-Haute, IN
Presented by the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
May 12, 2024: Hatfield Hall in Terre-Haute, IN
Presented by the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
June 9, 2024: The Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation in Indianapolis, IN
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…of dreams unveiled
Préludes, Livre I: La Cathédrale engloutie
Claude Debussy
Piano Portraits, Book II: Olga
Amy Williams
Préludes, Livre I: Voiles
Claude Debussy
Piano Portraits, Book I: Yvar
Amy Williams
Préludes, Livre I: « Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir »
Claude Debussy
Préludes, Livre I: Les collines d'Anacapri
Claude Debussy
Piano Portraits, Book II: Frieda
Amy Williams
Préludes, Livre I: La danse de Puck
Claude Debussy
Piano Portraits, Book II: Nils
Amy Williams
Préludes, Livre I: Des pas sur la neige
Claude Debussy
Fugue – suivant « Des pas sur la neige »
Anthony R. Green (b. 1984)
Préludes, Livre II: Brouillards
Claude Debussy
Piano Portraits, Book I: Helena
Amy Williams
Préludes, Livre II: Canope
Claude Debussy
Préludes, Livre II: La puerta del Vino
Claude Debussy
Piano Portraits, Book I: Ursula
Amy Williams
Préludes, Livre II: La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
Claude Debussy
Préludes, Livre II: Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C.
Claude Debussy
Préludes, Livre II: Feux d'artifice
Claude Debussy
To Anacreon in the US
Anthony R. Green
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