ALBUMRhapsody in Blue ReimaginedLara Downes, Edwin Outwater, SFCM Orchestra, Edmar Colón, Jeriel Sanjurjo, John Santos & Great Wall Chinese Orchestra
ALBUMLove at LastLara Downes
ALBUMREFLECTIONS: Scott Joplin ReconsideredLara Downes
ALBUMNew Day BegunLara Downes
ALBUMPhenomenal WomenLara Downes & Nicole Cabell
ALBUMThe Bedtime SessionsLara Downes
ALBUMSome of These DaysLara Downes
ALBUMFlorence Price Piano DiscoveriesLara Downes
ALBUMFor Love of YouLara Downes, Martin West & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
ALBUMHoles in the SkyLara Downes
ALBUMFor LennyLara Downes
ALBUMAmerica AgainLara Downes
ALBUMA Billie Holiday SongbookLara Downes
ALBUMSome Other TimeZuill Bailey & Lara Downes
ALBUMExiles' CafeLara Downes
ALBUM13 Ways of Looking At the Goldberg (Bach Reimagined)Lara Downes
ALBUMNocturnes for Night Owls: Classical Treasures for Sweet DreamsLara Downes
ALBUMDream of MeLara Downes
ALBUMLara Downes: American BalladsLara Downes
ALBUMInvitation to the DanceLara Downes
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Lara Downes: Love/Life
The pianist celebrates the power of music to express love in its many forms.
About Lara Downes
Künstler-Biographie
In addition to her reputation as one of the great concert pianists of the early 21st century, Lara Downes is known for being a daring curator, often aiming to subvert received wisdom about music history through unusual juxtapositions of material. Downes was born in 1973 to a Jamaican father and a Jewish mother of Russian descent, and she has cited her upbringing as part of the inspiration for her eclectic musical palette. After spending her formative years studying piano at top music schools throughout Europe—she'd started playing at the age of four—she returned to her hometown of San Francisco and began her performing career in earnest in the 2000s. Featuring experiments with jazz and pop as well as classical, her conceptually rich discography is dominated by left-of-center tribute albums exploring the legacy of figures as varied as Leonard Bernstein, Billie Holliday, and Scott Joplin. On one of her most acclaimed releases, 2016’s America Again, she elides jazz-influenced classical music with jazz and spirituals, incorporating disparate elements of the American musical vernacular in unexpected ways. In the 2010s and 2020s, Downes expanded her ongoing mission to highlight the music of Black and female composers in her work as a radio host, video series creator, label head (at Rising Sun Music), and essayist.
Heimatort
San Francisco, CA, United States
Genre
Classical
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