In no particular order: S. N. Goenka, Rumi, Olivier Messiaen, Swami Sivananda, Kim Kashkashian, Reinhart Goebel, Joel Thiffault, the Dalai Lama, Bjork, Gidon Kremer, Yehudi Menuhin, Ian Swensen, David Greenberg, Rolfe Shulte, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Velvet Underground, John Cale, Steven Dann, Anthony Marwood, Gilles Apap, Anner Bylsma, Peter Wispelwey, Garry Kasparov, Joseph Campbell, Bill W.,Brooklyn Rider, Thomas Merton, Paul Hindemith, Eckhart Tolle, Morton Feldman, Gyorgy Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Yogi Bhajan, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Sonic Youth, Gerard Grisey, Georges Aperghis, Bobby Mann, Leonard Cohen, Radiohead, Don Weilerstein, Pink Floyd, Thich Nhat Hanh, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Philip Roth, Mordechai Richler, Steven Isserlis, Hermann Hesse, Sandor Vegh, Ivry Gitlis, Andy Warhol.
Sounds Like
Buddha in Glory
Center of all centers, core of cores,
almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet
all this universe, to the furthest stars
all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.
Now you feel how nothing clings to you;
your vast shell reaches into endless space,
and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace,
a billion stars go spinning through the night,
blazing high above your head.
But in you is the presence that
will be, when all the stars are dead.
- Rainer Maria Rilke.
"Elegy", by Elliot Carter
Performed live, June 28/2008
Pemi Paull - viola
Amy Zanrosso - piano
A versatile soloist and chamber musician, and a specialist in both new and early music, Pemi Paull is a true 21st century artist. He is the founder and artistic director of Warhol Dervish, an original and unorthodox chamber music collective based in Montreal. The recipient of the 2002 CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award for Chamber Music, Pemi has been invited as a regular participant at Prussia Cove Chamber Music Festival in Cornwall, England, and Domaine Forget International Chamber Music Festival.
A two-time winner of the National Arts Center Competition, he has been heard frequently on CBC as recitalist, as member of the Redpath Quartet, with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, as soloist with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, and in May 2000, as soloist with l'Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec in the world premiere of "Debacle", for viola and orchestra, by Sherbrooke, Quebec-based composer, Denis Dion.
Tremendously active in Montreal's thriving early music scene, Pemi appears regularly with Ensemble Caprice, Les Idees Heureuses, and Ensemble Arion. Pemi's activities have also also brought him to the forefront of Montreal's contemporary music world. He is a member of three important new music ensembles in Montreal, Bradyworks, Ensemble Kore, and SMCQ. In addition, Pemi has premiered works for viola by Scott Godin, Andre Ristic, Rose Bolton, Emily Hall, and Nicolas Gilbert, among others.
Pemi gave the Canadian premiere of "Prologue", for viola and electronic resonator, by French composer Gerard Grisey. Francois Tousignant, of Montreal's Le Devoir, wrote of the performance, "...Voila une maniere differente d'user de la 'monodie' d'autant plus convainquante que l'interprete, totalement engage, en fait resortir tout l'art inspire et inspirant".
A long term resident at the Banff Center, during the 2008 winter residency (January - March), Pemi plays on a viola built in 2007 by David Prentice, generously loaned to him by the Banff Centre.
Pemi Paull is represented by Marilyn Gilbert Artist Management
For more information on the artist:
www.pemipaull.com
For inquiries:
Marilyn Gilbert Artist Management
www.mgam.com
marilyn@mgam.com
1-416-410-8224
"Very Near the Edge of the Flat Earth", by Rose Bolton
Performed live, January 26/2009
Pemi Paull - viola
Sarah Page - harp
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