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Awaken

Rea Beaumont, pianist, composer

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Composer-pianist Dr. Rea Beaumont's fifth piano album "Awaken" takes listeners on an uplifting journey from the ebb and flow of pandemic uncertainty to an exciting celebration featuring acclaimed violinist Christopher Verrette .

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TIMELESS (2018)
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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A CONVERSATION PIECE (2014, SPP 0090)    
REA BEAUMONT, PIANO

"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 (2010, SPP 0089)   
REA BEAUMONT, PIANO 

ABOUT 
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

A SHRINKING PLANET(2006, SPP. 0088)
REA BEAUMONT, PIANO

ABOUT 
With NASA’s famous photo “Earthrise” photo as its cover, Beaumont’s first album A Shrinking Planet communicates that we are a global community.  The album was one of the first to highlight the influences of globalization in Canadian new music.  Named after this premiere recording of Barbara Pentland’s Small Pieces for a Shrinking Planet, the album features virtuosic works by Canadian composers who each address mankind’s innate desire to search and explore.  Premiered on CBC Radio.  

WORKS 
Alice Ho: Garage* 
Barbara Pentland: Small Pieces for a Shrinking Planet* 
Chan Ka Nin:  In Search Of…. *  
     (commissioned by CBC for Rea Beaumont) 
Walter Buczynski: Sonata / Sounds 

*première recording, Canadian composer.  

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