Kevin Bazzana

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Kevin John Bazzana
Born (1963-07-27) July 27, 1963 (age 61)
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
OccupationMusical historian
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectBiography

Kevin John Bazzana (born 1963) is a Canadian music historian and biographer, best known for his works on the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. Bazzana is a graduate of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, and the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia.

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Literary career

Kevin Bazzana has written two books about Gould, Glenn Gould: The Performer in the Work (1997) and Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould (2003). The former's content came from Bazzana's doctoral dissertation on Gould, completed under the supervision of Richard Taruskin. [1] Wondrous Strange was nominated for the 2004 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. [2] Bazzana also wrote a book about Hungarian pianist Ervin Nyiregyházi, Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick (2007). Lost Genius was a nominee for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize.[ citation needed ]

Bazzana also wrote the liner notes[ citation needed ] for the 2007 Zenph Studios Re-Performance CD Bach: The Goldberg Variations on Sony BMG. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Kevin Bazzana". The Canadian Encyclopedia. March 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ Wilfrid Laurier University 2004: Andrea Curtis, (retrieved 11/17/2012)
  3. ↑ Is It Live ... or Yamaha? Channeling Glenn Gould The New York Times, March 12, 2007, by; Edward Rothstein, (retrieved 11/18/2012)


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