Kevin Bazzana
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 Authorities, with 5 catalogue records
- 1963 births
- Canadian music historians
- Canadian male non-fiction writers
- Canadian biographers
- Male biographers
- Living people
- People from the Capital Regional District
- 20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- 20th-century biographers
- 21st-century biographers
- Canadian historian stubs