In Fall 2024, Navona Records (https://www.navonarecords.com) will release an album of solo piano sonatas performed by Dr. Kristín Jónína Taylor, UNO Associate Professor of Piano and Keyboard Area Coordinator. "Midwest Piano Sonatas" presents three solo piano sonatas by Midwestern composers (Missouri, Iowa/Nebraska, and Oklahoma/Illinois). Each composer was born, raised, and lived significant portions of their lives in the Midwestern US: Joanne Baker, whose neo-classical sonata from 1948 has gone largely unheard and forgotten despite winning a national competition and performance at Carnegie Hall; Mike McFerron, with a dramatic composition written in 2022 telling the story of inexplicable loss from the point of view of parents who lost children in the Sandyhook Elementary school shooting; and Bryan Stanley, with a neo-Romantic sonata written in 2018. The sonatas, two of which are recently commissioned works, show an immense diversity of styles.
The recording also extensively features the work of Wyndhem Ennaemba, UNO School of Music's Music Production Manager, as the Recording Engineer and Mixing/Mastering Engineer for the recording, which was recorded in the Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall on the campus of the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Digital distribution will be through Naxos Records (https://www.naxos.com). Releases will be available for digital purchase through major retailers such as Amazon and iTunes and through major streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and Naxos Streaming Library.
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