A Pianist's Landscape - Paperback

by Carol Montparker (Author)

These intensely personal and perceptive essays explore the author s life as a pianist---practicing, performing, teaching, and writing---but they could be the thoughts and reflections of any artist. They recount the challenges, rewards, and joys of a caree

Author Biography

Carol Montparker is a pianist and a writer. She was Senior Editor of _Clavier_ for 15 years, and is presently Senior Consulting Editor, continuing her column, "Carillon", a personal view of music and how it relates to the other arts, nature, and to all of life. For more than 20 years she has interviewed world-famous artists for feature stories, and reviewed concerts and books. She has won four Awards for Excellence in Journalism from the Educational Press of America, and has published over 200 articles in numerous music periodicals as well as _The New York Times_ and _Newsday_. She has been an interview guest on several NPR programs across the country.In addition to her literary pursuit of music, Carol is an active recitalist in both solo and chamber music. In fact, her journalistic career emerged from her successful Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1976. Her journal of the experience evolved into her first book, _The Anatomy of a New York Debut Recital: A Chronicle_, which in turn led to her appointment at _The Piano Quarterly_, and then _Clavier_. These two professions of playing music and writing about it are mutually nourishing, and provide bountiful and lively material for her frequent talks and lecture-recitals at piano festivals, universities, libraries, museums, and organizations. Her CD, _Pianogarden_, comprised of live performances of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin, has been praised by artists and critics including Harold C. Schonberg, Chief Music Critic Emeritus, of _The New York Times_.Carol also enjoys teaching piano in her private studio, and painting in watercolor (the illustrations in _A Pianist's Landscape_ are her work). She is a native New Yorker, and currently lives in Huntington, New York, with her husband Ernest. Carol's new collection of stories from a musical life will be published by Amadeus Press in 2004.