Tanya Ekanayaka features in International Piano
GRAND PIANO artist Tanya Ekanayaka is featured in the October edition of International Piano with regard to her third and latest release on the label. The Sri Lankan-British artist-scholar describes her article for the publication as “…entirely about my broader artistic vision as a South Asian female composer-pianist, in which I talk about aspects of my creative life and purpose which I have not shared previously publicly.”
Released in May this year, Dr Ekanayaka’s latest album is titled The Planets and Humanity – Piano Reflections (GP879) in which she pairs planets in the Solar System with Earth’s seven continents: “Except for Antarctica, which has no permanent human population, my reflections on the remaining six continents involve ‘transcreations’ of six melodies originating from six indigenous peoples, namely the Asháninka, Cree, Gond, Hadzabe, Numbulwar and Sámi peoples.”
Grand Piano has gained a reputation for producing high quality recordings of rare keyboard gems. Dedicated to the exploration of undiscovered piano repertoire, the label specialises in complete cycles of piano works by many lesser-known composers, whose output might otherwise have remained unknown and unrecorded.
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