Kathryn Woodard and the Shanghai Quartet with Ge Gan-ru at the recording of "Four Studies of Peking Opera" in College Station, TX, April 2006
Kathryn Woodard at the Saygun Symposium in Bursa, Turkey
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While attending the musicology symposium "Celebrating the Centenary of Ahmed Adnan Saygun" in Bursa, Turkey on 9-10 March 2007, Kathryn Woodard was interviewed by Serhan Yedig for Hürriyet on her research and performances of Saygun's music, and on her role as Yo-Yo Ma's Turkish music consultant(Article in Turkish)
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from New York Press:
Older
new music. Or, newer old music. As standard rep. By
Amanda MacBlane
..."How
can you call a piece from 1979 new music?" Woodard responded
when I showed surprise at her inclusion of Rzewski as standard rep.
And when you compare this work to the four pieces by emerging composers
also on the program, one of which was written specifically for this
concert, her argument strengthens. Rzewski is an elder statesman
of the music community, and his music deserves to be pressed into
the history books rather than floundering in the uncertainty of
the cutting-edge. ...
This
concert, presented by the New York City composer and performer collective
Groundwave, aspires to more than just challenging definitions of
standard repertoire. Like many of her previous recitals, Woodard
has carefully curated a program that connects America’s (and
more specifically Brooklyn’s) newest composers with the weighty
past of Western classical music. In order to really draw clear relationships
between the past and present, Woodard limited her choices to works
written for only the 88 keys of the piano in equal temperament.
As alternate tunings and electronic manipulations have become commonplace
for new piano music, Woodard aims to show that composers have yet
to exhaust the possibilities of the standard piano...
Pianist Kathryn Woodard has been hailed by the Washington Post for her "intrepid spirit... pushing music across cultural boundaries." Fanfare magazine notes, "Woodard's pianism is clear and lucid... She has created a highly personal style."Learn more...
