Kevin Bazzana
Kevin John Bazzana | |
---|---|
Born | Kelowna, Canada | July 27, 1963
Occupation | Musical historian |
Nationality | Canadian |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Subject | Biography |
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.
Literary career
Kevin 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
- ^ 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
- Author Spotlight: Kevin Bazzana at McClelland & Stewart
- Kevin Bazzana at Library of Congress, with 5 library catalogue records
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- All articles with unsourced statements
- Articles with unsourced statements from November 2012
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with KBR identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with PLWABN identifiers
- Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1963 births
- Canadian music historians
- Canadian male biographers
- Living people
- People from the Capital Regional District
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- 20th-century Canadian biographers
- 21st-century Canadian biographers
- All stub articles
- Canadian historian stubs