#62 - Interview with Violinist Valeria Zorina

My guest on the 62nd episode of "Dress Rehearsal" is violinist Valeria Zorina, who is an award winning performer and educator currently living Madrid, Spain. Ms. Zorina recently released a CD dedicated to the "scordatura" in violin repertoire through the centuries. The "scordatura" is defined by the Harvard Dictionary of Music, as “abnormal tuning of a stringed instrument in order to obtain unusual chords, facilitate difficult passages, or change the tone color.”. In her latest CD titled "Soundmaps, Extended Realities" Ms. Zorina, along with pianist Evgeny Sinaiski, proposes an excurses of pieces spanning from Heinrich Biber to Eugene Ysaie and Camille Saint-Saens and through new compositions that she commissioned to Cuban Composer Louis Franz Aguirre and Italian Composer Giacomo Platini. During the hour we will also have a chance to talk about the process of choosing these pieces, recording the CD, but also what it really means to be a musician and which mission we should accomplish as musicians. Don't miss it!