Janette Fishell was awarded a 2021 Indiana University Presidential Research, Creative Activity, Scholarship of Teaching grant in support of her multi-year performance and pedagogical project, “Music that Came in from the Cold: Petr Eben’s Velvet Revolution.” Working with colleague Jamie Tagg, associate professor of Music, audio engineering, and sound production, she is mid-way through a six-CD project that will document all of the Czech composer’s solo organ works, including some late works not previously recorded on similar media. The recordings will be made available worldwide by the Dutch classical music label Brilliant Classics.
The grant also supports a study trip to Europe during which Fishell plans to conduct interviews with associates and family members of Eben, as well as visit sites of importance to his music. Finally, she will produce a teaching video that offers insights into the composer’s musical language and interpretation issues. Her interest in Eben’s organ music grew from doctoral research, aided by the composer himself, that resulted in the first English-language study of his organ works, many articles, masterclasses, and decades of performing and teaching his music.
For information: janettefishell.com.
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