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Cheryl Duvall: The Plains
by John Eyles
Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith was born in New York City in 1957. She began her composition studies in high school in New York and continued music study at SUNY Stony Brook. In 1977 she went to Canada to study composition and theory at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. In 1981 she moved to Toronto. In 1986 she was invited by Morton Feldman to attend his lectures at SUNY Buffalo, NY, as a guest. Her compositions have been ...
Continue ReadingCheryl Duvall, Patrick Giguère: Intimes Exubérances
by John Eyles
Toronto-based pianist Cheryl Duvall is one of Canada's leading interpreters of contemporary music. In 2011, she co-founded the chamber group Thin Edge New Music Collective (TENMC) along with the equally praise-worthy violinist Ilana Waniuk. Since then, they have commissioned over eighty works and collaborated with such renowned performers as Charlotte Mundy, Jason Sharp, and Ensemble Paramirabo--with whom TENMC recorded Raging Against the Machine (Redshift Music Society, 2017). TENMC also recorded the much-praised Dark Flower (Redshift Records, 2023), an album of ...
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