Monica Pearce — Textile Fantasies (out October 14th, 2022) on Centrediscs CD/DL

Genre(s): Contemporary Chamber Music

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ABOUT: Texas-based Canadian composer Monica Pearce‘s debut full-length release presents a series of keyboard and percussion-driven chamber works each paying homage to the form and feel of a specific textile.   Though she employs smaller instrumental forces throughout it, Textile Fantasies manages to showcase Pearce’s uncanny ability to produce striking and evocative sonorities that seem to maximize her resources and impart an undeniable atmosphere to each composition.  In addition to Pearce’s abilities, this recording also features performances by leading Canadian musicians such as keyboardists Cheryl Duvall, Wesley Chen, Barbara Pritchard, and Joseph Ferretti, tabla player Shawn Mativetsky, as well as renowned ensembles TorQ Percussion and SHHH!! Ensemble.  

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Year-End — PanM360, Top 100 Albums of 2022
Interview — Tobias Fischer, 15 Questions
News — Classical Music Daily
Feature — Steve Clark, New music: Brownsville composer releases ‘Textile Fantasies’, The Brownsville Herald
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Review — David Olds, The WholeNote
Review — Helen Pridmore, Musicworks
Review — Andrew Desiderio, Fanfare
Review — Peter Thelen, Expose
Review — Ron Schepper, Textura
Review — Frédéric Cardin, PanM360
Review — Daniel Barbiero, Avant Music News
Review — Grego Applegate-Edwards, Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review
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Review — Carme Miró, Sonograma
News — Exposé
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Round-up — Frank P. Eckert, Motherboard, Groove.de
Round-up — Fall Music Preview — Modern Composition, A Closer Listen
List — Can This Even Be Called Music?
List — The Moderns, Friday Five, (October 14, 2022)
Podcast — The Moderns Episode 232
Radio — That’s Classical?, CJSW (January 22, 2023)
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Radio — Jazz Disturbance, WGXC (October 16, 2022)
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