Kevin John Bazzana (born 1963) is a Canadian music historian and biographer, best known for his works on the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. Bazzana is a graduate of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, and the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia.
Kevin John Bazzana | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 27, 1963 Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Musical historian |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Subject | Biography |
Literary career
editKevin Bazzana has written two books about Gould, Glenn Gould: The Performer in the Work (1997) and Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould (2003). Wondrous Strange was nominated for the 2004 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction.[1] Bazzana also wrote a book about Hungarian pianist Ervin Nyiregyházi, Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick (2007). Lost Genius was a nominee for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize.[citation needed]
Bazzana also wrote the liner notes[citation needed] for the 2007 Zenph Studios Re-Performance CD Bach: The Goldberg Variations on Sony BMG.[2]
References
edit- ^ Wilfrid Laurier University 2004: Andrea Curtis, (retrieved 11/17/2012)
- ^ Is It Live ... or Yamaha? Channeling Glenn Gould The New York Times, March 12, 2007, by; Edward Rothstein, (retrieved 11/18/2012)
External links
edit- Author Spotlight: Kevin Bazzana at McClelland & Stewart
- Kevin Bazzana at Library of Congress, with 5 library catalogue records
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