(Halifax/Kjipuktuk, NS) Leaf Music announces the distribution of a new digital release by pianist Katherine Dowling’s Awake and Dreaming (KD2024), featuring the music of Canadian composer, Alice Ping-Yee Ho.
Praised by the New York Times for her “crystalline performances, gestural expressiveness and careful attention to color,” pianist Katherine Dowling (katherinedowling.com) performs across North America and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician and can be heard on nearly a dozen outstanding recordings. Katherine has premiered over 25 works by young composers, and has worked with John Harbison, Louis Andriessen and Oliver Knussen, always playing from memory so that the music is fully internalized.
This new recording (digital only) includes works ranging from Alice Ping-Yee Ho’s earliest creations (1985) to recent commissions (2023), several recorded here for the first time. Listeners will be drawn in by fresh new sounds, the fusing of different cultural traditions, and the luminous virtuosity of the piano writing. The recording is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Listen to Awake and Dreaming on your favourite streaming platforms: leaf-music.lnk.to/kd2024
About Leaf Music: Leaf Music is an independent recording label based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, making and distributing high-quality classical music recordings by artists and composers from across Canada. Our growing catalogue of solo, orchestral, and chamber music is distributed by Naxos of America to the world’s most important music retailers, download providers, and streaming services. Leaf is also a provider of professional audio and video production, post-production services and integrated music marketing and distribution in Canada.
We acknowledge that Leaf Music’s work spans many Territories and Treaty areas, and that our home is in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People.
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MEDIA CONTACT:
For more information/photos or to arrange interviews, please contact Peggy Walt, peggy@leaf-music.ca (902) 422-5403 (office) or (902) 476-1096 (cell).
