Pianist-composer Sylvie Courvoisier is a Brooklyn-based native of Switzerland and winner of the Swiss Grand Prix and The American Academy of Arts and Letters Music Award. She has earned renown for balancing two distinct worlds: the deep, richly detailed chamber music of her European roots and the grooving, hook-laden sounds of the avant-jazz scene in New York City, her home for more than two decades. Courvoisier will perform solo on Night 2 of this year’s Other Minds Festival in San Francisco. In the interview, Courvoisier talks about improvising with radios as a child, her multi-stylistic musical education, and the influence of composer Conlon Nancarrow.
Music: Frisking (for Henry Cowell), La descente des alpages (for Julian Sartorius), Soliloquizing (for Wadada Leo Smith), and Preluding (for Conlon Nancarrow) composed and performed by Sylvie Courvoisier (Intakt Records)
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