Gregory Oh

The Musicworks Magazine website has been overhauled and is looking great!

Back issues are now online – here\’s a link to the wonderful article that journalist Matthew Pioro wrote about me a few years ago. The photos (which I love) are by Adam Coish.

Here\’s a link to the Soundstreams Canada concert I played in at Koerner Hall with six concert grand pianos (a Schimmel, an Estonia, two Yamahas, one Steinway and a gorgeous Bosendorfer). The big hit on the program, no surprise, was the last piece – Steve Reich\’s Six Pianos. The camera shot was amazing.
Incidentally, my favourite of the six grands was the Schimmel.

Six Pianos by Steve Reich starts at 1:23.

Robert Harris, in the Globe and Mail, writes a nice review of Soundstreams\’ Piano Ecstasy, last Friday in Koerner Hall.

Read it here
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/series/a-guide-to-contemporary-classical-music

I\’m supposed to be a new music expert here in Canada, but I\’ve been learning amazing things just by following this guide to contemporary music from the Guardian.

Still waiting for the Jim Tenney and Claude Vivier articles…

In this interview with Trish Crawford, I sound a bit dunce-like, but in the accompanying video, I gotta say, I get some serious camera time! If only I had asked for the camera-person\’s phone number…

Check it out here

Life can be tough in the post-classical world, so it is extra nice when the shoutouts happen. David Macfarlane wrote a really nice article about the Frances-Marie Uitti show that I curated at the Music Gallery, and also about the value of spaces like the MG.

Read the article here

Check out Music Gallery shows here

Life can be tough in the post-classical world, so it is extra nice when the shoutouts happen. David Macfarlane wrote a really nice article about the Frances-Marie Uitti show that I curated at the Music Gallery, and also about the value of spaces like the MG.

Read the article here

Check out Music Gallery shows here

Did I really claim to have gone to \”hundreds of thousands of concerts\”? Sheesh. Do I really have a hirsute-Brobdignagian-dancer fetish? No way! (IT\’S ALL TRUE).

Read all the lurid details here.

Did I really claim to have gone to \”hundreds of thousands of concerts\”? Sheesh. Do I really have a hirsute-Brobdignagian-dancer fetish? No way! (IT\’S ALL TRUE).

Read all the lurid details here.

This is a link to my Open Ears blog post about my long time quest to buy 100 metronomes in order to perform Gyorgy Ligeti\’s Poème Symphonique. IT\’S ALL TRUE.