AWAKEN

REA BEAUMONT, PIANO
With guest artist CHRISTOPHER VERRETTE, VIOLIN

With compositions by pianist Rea Beaumont, "Awaken" takes listeners on an uplifting journey from the ebb and flow of pandemic uncertainty to an exciting celebration, featuring guest artist Christopher Verrette, violin.  

(Album time: 25'33")

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timeless

Rea Beaumont, piano

"Album of the Week" - CBC Radio

WORKS
Philip Glass: Mad Rush
John Adams: China Gates 
Jordan Nobles: Zephyrus*
Srul Irving Glick: Six Preludes*
Rea Beaumont: Aldeburgh - By the Sea*
Rea Beaumont: The Goodbye*
Jordan Pal: Study in White (commission: TAC for Rea Beaumont)*

*Canadian composer, premiere recording

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“Of particular interest to me is the first track, Beaumont’s own Shattered Ice, which combines compositional prowess with her concern for the environment in an ominous work depicting the fragile ecosystem of the Canadian Arctic and the dangers posed by human intrusion.” - David Olds, DISCoveries Editor

— The WholeNote, Toronto

A Conversation Piece

Rea Beaumont, piano

A CONVERSATION PIECE, Rea Beaumont piano 
(2014, SPP 0090)   
REVIEWS
"it’s  beautiful”  - American Public Media

“skillful playing (virtuoso!) and moving, and each time you listen you discover more details and colors” - Radio Amsterdam

ABOUT
Each composition is based on an extramusical theme that can be the subject for further discussion or ‘a conversation piece,’ including environmental destruction, technology, and more.  Album is named after a movement in Canadian composer’s John Weinzweig’s Suite No. 2. 

WORKS
Rea Beaumont: Shattered Ice*
John Weinzweig: Suite No. 2
John Weinzweig: Netscapes*
Jean Coulthard: Threnody*
R. Murray Schafer: Polytonality
Maurice Ravel: Miroirs 
    
*Première recording, Canadian composer

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creating a landscape

Rea Beaumont, piano

ABOUT
Pianist Rea Beaumont’s second album Creating a Landscape provides a unique musical experience, with works ranging from meditative to virtuosic. Beaumont explores how performers and composers shape our auditory landscape through music and she draws parallels with mankind’s impact on the physical landscape as a result of over-population.  

WORKS 
Arvo Pärt:  Für Alina
John Cage: In a Landscape
Anton Kuerti: Six Arrows*
Colin McPhee: Four Piano Sketches
Barbara Pentland: Vincula     
Brent Lee: Subjective Geometries*

*Première recording, Canadian composer

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