News
Global Music Awards Silver Award winner:
Composer Category (for Sonata no. 2 by Mike McFerron)
New Release Category (for Sonata no. 2 by Mike McFerron)
The American Prize awards:
Winner, Piano Performance 2025, Professional Solo Division (for Sonata no. 2 by Bryan Stanley).
3rd Place, Marian Anderson Award in Social Justice (for Sonata no. 2 by Mike McFerron).
Honorable Mention, Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music 2025, Professional Soloist and Composer Division (for Sonata no. 2 by Mike McFerron).
MIDWEST PIANO SONATAS
Navona Records Label
Composers:
Joanne Baker
Mike McFerron
Bryan Stanley
Release Date: August 2, 2024
Catalog #: NV6653
Format: Digital
Pianist Kristín Jónína Taylor dives deep into the lyrical, evocative, and hauntingly beautiful works of three leading composers and educators from the Midwest United States on MIDWEST PIANO SONATAS. A blend of Neo-classical and Neo-romantic styles are presented in this Navona Records release, exploring compositional concepts ranging from bitonality to mixed meters, and life’s inscrutable emotions, particularly, anguish and bereavement. These profound spectrums of musicality and feeling are conveyed with stunning clarity by Taylor, an award-winning pianist lauded for her mesmerizing performances of nuance and depth.