Carolyn Enger performs Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru's “Homesickness”, shared in celebration of her upcoming centennial on December 12, 1923

Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru: Homesickness

Music: Six Friends — For Barbara (2006)
Composer: Ned Rorem
Artist: Carolyn Enger, piano
Album: Ned Rorem: Piano Album I; Six Friends
Label: Naxos

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“The intriguing notion of a CD containing 33 short piano pieces by the engagingly reflective American composer Ned Rorem, each professing love or devotion, has been affectionately realised by the American pianist Carolyn Enger. Playing on a beautifully recorded Steinway in Greenfield Hall at the Manhattan School of Music, Enger raises the miniatures to a higher level by taking the time and care to recapture the emotional impact each must have had when their dedicatees read the inscription and title, and then heard the music for the first time.” —Laurence Vittes, Gramophone Magazine

Ned Rorem: Six Friends — For Barbara

Music: Bagatelle: Andante con moto, op. 126, no. 1 (1823-24)
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Artist: Carolyn Enger, piano
Album: In Evening Air

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The genre of the piano miniature is one of the most personal in the classical repertoire. For composers, these pieces are usually un-commissioned—written between larger projects solely from irrepressible music desire.

For a pianist, these personal statements provide exquisite challenges and represent a composer's technique at its most “naked.” In several pages (or sometimes only several phrases), a small world must be both created and explored.

Though Aaron Copland produced three career-spanning major works for solo piano (variations, sonata, and fantasy), in his later years he created a few small piano pieces based on earlier sketches and fragments, such as “In Evening Air” represented here.

Beethoven: Bagatelle: Andante con moto, op. 126, no. 1

Music: Prelude, Op. 11, No. 10
Composer: Alexander Scriabin
Artist: Carolyn Enger, piano
Album: In Evening Air

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The genre of the piano miniature is one of the most personal in the classical repertoire. For composers, these pieces are usually un-commissioned—written between larger projects solely from irrepressible music desire.

For a pianist, these personal statements provide exquisite challenges and represent a composer's technique at its most “naked.” In several pages (or sometimes only several phrases), a small world must be both created and explored.

Alexander Scriabin produced a large number of pieces for the piano. Though quite different in scope from his famous sonatas, Scriabin's passionate preludes vary in character — from the icy Russian landscape of Op. 51, No. 2, to the sunny and radiant colors of Op. 11, No. 13.

Scriabin: Prelude, Op. 11, No. 10

Music: Sunday Afternoon Music,
Composer: Aaron Copland
Artist: Carolyn Enger, piano
Album: In Evening Air

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The genre of the piano miniature is one of the most personal in the classical repertoire. For composers, these pieces are usually un-commissioned—written between larger projects solely from irrepressible music desire.

For a pianist, these personal statements provide exquisite challenges and represent a composer's technique at its most “naked.” In several pages (or sometimes only several phrases), a small world must be both created and explored.

Though Aaron Copland produced three career-spanning major works for solo piano (variations, sonata, and fantasy), in his later years he created a few small piano pieces based on earlier sketches and fragments, such as “In Evening Air” represented here.

Copland: Sunday Afternoon Music

Music: Arvo Pärt's “Für Alina”
Pianist Carolyn Enger
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Carolyn Enger runs through Arvo Pärt's “Für Alina” before her concert of music by Arvo Pärt, Ned Rorem, and Sean Hickey at Spectrum NYC on September 14th. 

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Arvo Pärt: Für Alina

Music: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk. 1 Prelude & Fugue in Bflat minor
Composer: J.S. Bach
Artist: Carolyn Enger

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J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk. 1 Prelude & Fugue

Music: Bagatelle: Quasi allegretto, Op. 126, No. 5 (1823-24)
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Artist: Carolyn Enger, piano
Album: In Evening Air

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The genre of the piano miniature is one of the most personal in the classical repertoire. For composers, these pieces are usually un-commissioned—written between larger projects solely from irrepressible music desire.

For a pianist, these personal statements provide exquisite challenges and represent a composer's technique at its most “naked.” In several pages (or sometimes only several phrases), a small world must be both created and explored.

Though Aaron Copland produced three career-spanning major works for solo piano (variations, sonata, and fantasy), in his later years he created a few small piano pieces based on earlier sketches and fragments, such as “In Evening Air” represented here.

In Evening Air

Beethoven — Bagatelle: Quasi allegretto, Op. 126, No. 5

Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 21, D. 960: II. Andante sostenuto
Live performance at the New City Public Library

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Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 21, D. 960: II. Andante sostenuto

Arnold Schoenberg: Sechs kleine Klavierstucke Op. 19 (1911)
1. Leicht, zart
2. Langsam
3. Sehr langsam
4. Rasch, aber leicht
5. Etwas rasch
6. Sehr langsam

From a live performance of works from Carolyn Enger's new Mischlinge Exposé repertoire at the Montclair Music Club on April 12, 2016. More information at http://mischlingexpose.com

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Arnold Schoenberg: Sechs kleine Klavierstucke Op. 19

Felix Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words Op. 19, No. 1

From a live performance of works from Carolyn Enger's new Mischlinge Exposé repertoire at the Montclair Music Club on April 12, 2016. More information at http://mischlingexpose.com

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Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words Op. 19, No. 1

Schubert: Drei Klavierstücke, D. 946 - No. 1 in E-flat Minor - Allegro assai
Live performance from the Pearl River library on May 21, 2017.
Carolyn Enger, pianist
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Schubert: Drei Klavierstücke, D. 946 - No. 1 in E-flat Minor - Allegro assai

Music: Les feuilles blancs (2004)
Composer: Pia Møller Johansen
Carolyn Enger, piano

Pia Møller Johansen: Les Feuilles Blancs

Music: Auf einem anderen Blatt
Composer: Wolfgang Rihm
Artist: Carolyn Enger, piano
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Wolfgang Rihm: Auf einem anderen Blatt

Music: Études, Book 1, No. 5
Composer: Philip Glass
Artist: Carolyn Enger
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Philip Glass:  Études, Book 1, No. 5

Music: Für Anna Maria
Composer: Arvo Pärt
Artist: Carolyn Enger, piano

From Carolyn Enger's new Resonance Program.

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Arvo Pärt: Für Anna Maria

Music: Prelude in C major, Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 846
Composer: J.S. Bach
Artist: Carolyn Enger

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Bach: Prelude in C major, WTC I, BWV 846

Music: Dream
Composer: John Cage
Artist: Carolyn Enger, piano

From Carolyn Enger's Resonating Earth program.

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John Cage: Dream

Carolyn Enger performs Messiaen's Prélude pour piano, La colombe during a concert at the New City Public Library in February 2019. The piece is part of the Resonance program.

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Messiaen: Prélude pour piano, La colombe

Carolyn Enger performs Galina Ustvolskaya's 12 Preludes, Prelude No. 2 live at the Huntington Public Library on June 23, 2019 as part of her Celebrating Women in Music program. https://carolynenger.com

Galina Ustvolskaya: 12 Preludes, No. 2

Carolyn Enger performs Clara Schumann's Präludium II, Op. 6 live at the Huntington Public Library on June 23, 2019 as part of her Celebrating Women in Music program. carolynenger.com

Clara Schumann: Präludium II, Op. 6

Live performance of Caroline Shaw's Gustave Le Gray from Carolyn Enger's Lyricism Then and Now performance presented by Music at Penn Alps on 13 July, 2019. https://carolynenger.com

Caroline Shaw: Gustave Le Gray (live)

Lauded in Fanfare Magazine for her “lavishing tone and sensitive, nuanced, thoughtful, unhurried timeless playing,” American pianist Carolyn Enger is a boldly passionate musician. Anthony Tommasini, Chief Music Critic of The New York Times, selected her recording of Ned Rorem’s Piano Album l and Six Friends on Naxos American Classics Series recording, as one of the “Best in Classical Recordings for 2013.” MusicWeb International described her playing as “thoughtful and sensitive… expressive…  with fine nuance and tone shading.” Fanfare wrote, “Enger’s dynamic control and emotional sensitivity complement her keen sense of timing and proportion.” She is “a musician of rare quality.” 

An active soloist, Ms. Enger has delivered her distinctly personal concerts in venues around the world, from Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium, and the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City, to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Felicja Blumenthal Music Center in Tel Aviv, Israel. Dedicated to bringing music to new audiences, Ms. Enger often performs in accessible civic spaces such as Israel’s Bet Yad Lebanim in Nahariya, and St. Peter’s Church and the Donnell Library Center in New York City. Ms. Enger’s community engagement performances have left presenters and audiences “in complete awe of her passion, skill and genuine warmth.” 

Her debut album, In Evening Air, includes music of Beethoven, Copland, Hanson, Liebermann, Rorem and Scriabin. Recording In Evening Air inspired her to delve deeper into Rorem’s pieces for piano; she instantly fell in love with his miniatures, of which Ned said, “I’m very pleased with all this, immortalized…and with your playing… A good performance all the way through.” Beyond her exploration of Rorem’s music, Ms. Enger’s commitment to programming compelling new works extends to American and Israeli composers such as Sean Hickey, Lowell Liebermann, Arvo Pärt, Caroline Shaw, Avner Dorman, Lior Navok and Betty Olivero. This season she gave the world premiere of Sean Hickey’s Reckoning at Spectrum.

Her interest in distinctive concert experiences has led Carolyn to explore a multimedia concert program about WWll, combining music, literature, and images, centering on the lives of Mischlinge – Half-Jews – in Germany, before, during and after the Holocaust. It underscores her larger mission to create meaningful and relevant concert experiences for audiences.

Ms. Enger is a Steinway Concert Artist.

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