Bill Runge

Holly Burke, Bill Runge & Linda Lee Thomas: Dreamride

by Dan McClenaghan
January 8, 2023

Pianist Holly Burke put the days of the Covid quarantine to good use by spending a period of quality time with herself and her piano. The result is Dreamtime, twenty improvised vignettes. These snippets are short, heartfelt, sometimes reflective and at other times quite gregarious, and consistently beautiful. Though Burke is the composer of these solo piano tunes, the set would not have come together without collaboration. Bill Runge, one of Burke's long-time teammates, stepped in to help craft the ...