Composer and pianist Linda Kernohan recently completed The 30 Days Project, an online composition project during which she wrote a short piece every day for 30 days and posted a recording online. She has had works performed across the U.S. and Europe. Commissions have included Four Memoriales for viola and piano, for violist Ralph Farris of the cutting-edge string quartet ETHEL, and Now, A Wanderer, for the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus. She has also had works performed at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, the Aspen Music Festival, the Frau Musica (nova) festival in Cologne, and the Czech-American Summer Music Institute in Prague. Awards received include an Alfred Hertz Memorial Traveling Scholarship and a BMI Student Composer Award. As a pianist, she has frequently performed her own music as well as music by her fellow composers and works from the standard repertoire. She has performed in a wide variety of venues, from a West Hollywood nightclub to the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican. From 2000 to 2002 she was one half of the Geisel Library Toy Piano duo with Scott Paulson, and she appeared on ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and on PBS's California's Gold with Huell Howser.
Linda holds a B.A. in music from U.C. Berkeley, an M.A. in music composition from New York University, and is currently in the final stages of a Ph.D. in composition from U.C. San Diego. She lives outside Detroit with her physician/poet husband and a feline bodhisattva named Piccolo.
Thanks for the ad. Played St Peters? The best place I've ever seen something done has been the Pantheon. Saw a midnight xmas service there once, then a girls choir more recently. Sigh.
Okay. You were on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings?? Is there a copy of that somewhere? Like how I chose that particular thing to be impressed with?
