Faculty Member Tanya Bannister Reviewed in the Washington Post
AlpenKammerMusik faculty member Tanya Bannister recently performed in recital at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. on Saturday January 27 in a program of Robert and Clara Schumann, Isaac Albéniz, Brahms, Australian composer Carl Vine, and AlpenKammerMusik faculty member Suzanne Farrin. And Washington Post music critic Tim Page was on hand to review the concert for Monday’s edition of the Washington Post.
In the Post review, Page raved:
“Throughout the afternoon, Bannister played with intelligence, poetry and proportion.“
Of the Brahms Handel Variations, he wrote “…a work of such crushing difficulty that it must be a decade since I last heard it played in concert…I was particularly impressed by the way she gave all of the Brahms variations their own splendid little lives and characters while yoking them firmly into a grander totality.“
Even a few prospective students for AlpenKammerMusik were at the concert to meet with Ms. Bannister in Washington D.C. If you would like to find out more about where Ms. Bannister will be performing in the coming months, you can view her concert itinerary on her website at http://www.tanyabannister.com/schedule.shtml. If you would like to meet with Ms. Bannister to discuss AlpenKammerMusik, please contact the festival at music@alpenkammermusik.com to arrange a meeting.
I was at your Kennedy recital, and was absolutely blown away by your natural approach to the keyboard and the ability that you have to get to the core of the music. Please come back to play in Washington DC again soon.