Katrina Krimsky

Katrina Krimsky , actually Margaret Krimsky Siegmann (born March 5, 1938 in St. Simons Island , Georgia ) is an American pianist of new and improvised music and composer.

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Katrina Krimsky comes from a Russian family and initially received piano lessons from her mother. At the Eastman School of Music she studied with Cecile Staub Genhart and graduated in 1959 with a bachelor's degree . She then taught at the piano department of the American University and performed with the Ars Nova Trio , but also as a soloist. In the mid-1960s she went to Cologne , where she worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen , Henri Pousseur and Luc Ferrari and presented contemporary piano music in concerts. In 1967 she got a job at the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts Ensemble in Buffalo . She was involved in the first recording of Terry Riley's In C and was part of La Monte Young's Eternal Dream House Ensemble (like her then husband Jon Hassell ) .

In 1972 she became a professor at Mills College and established herself as a pianist and improviser in San Francisco , but also played with Woody Shaw and Bobby Hutcherson at Keystone Korner . In Europe she performed with Peter Kowald and recorded the album Stella Malu for ECM with Trevor Watts . She has also released several records of piano music by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Samuel Barber . Irmin Schmidt published her own compositions for solo piano on the Spoon label. She founded her own ensemble with which she not only performs her own compositions, but also Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air . Works by Martin Bartlett , D'Arcy Reynolds , Max Lifchitz and David Rosenboom were assigned to her.

Krimsky lives in San Francisco and Zurich .

Discographic notes

• Four Moons (1992)
• Time Over Time (2007)

Web links

• Web presence with discography and catalog raisonné