Nanette McGuinness
Nanette McGuinness | |
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Born | Boston, Massachesetts |
Education | PhD |
Alma mater | Cornell University University of California, Berkeley |
Occupation(s) | Vocalist Translator |
Awards | Gold Medal, Global Music Awards |
Nanette McGuinness is an American
Early life
Nanette McGuinness was born Nanette Michèle Cooper in
Music career
McGuinness began her music career as a soprano in both operatic and chamber music performances.[1] She has been featured on four albums released on Centaur Records, Fabulous Femmes (music by 19th and 20th century women composers) with the Athena Trio and Benedetto Vinaccesi: the Solo Cantatas with the Vinaccesi Ensemble.[2]
McGuinness is the vocalist for the trio Ensemble for These Times, alongside pianist Dale Tsang and cellist Anne Lerner-Wright. Formed in 2007
In 2019, the ensemble received the second place for Chamber Music Performance by The American Prize,[12] as well as being finalists for their Ernst Bacon Memorial Award.[13] In 2020 their album Once/Memory/Night: Paul Celan, in honor of Celan's centennial, was released and won a silver medal in the 2020 Global Music Awards.[14] Of the recording, The Whole Note wrote that, “The Ensemble’s performance is both poised and haunting, and is raised to a rarefied realm by lustrous and soaring, songful recitatives executed by the inimitable Nanette McGuinness.”[15] The journal Textura also stated that McGuinness “gives powerful voice to Celan's texts”.[16] McGuinness has also been named the Artistic Executive Director of the group.[17] In 2021, Ensemble for These Times won The American Prize Prize for Chamber Music Performance.[18]
Writing
McGuinness is also a translator, having translated about sixty published books and graphic novels from French, Italian, German, and Spanish into English for children[19] and adults,[20] including the Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novel series with Papercutz and California Dreamin': Cass Elliott Before the Mamas & the Papas with First Second Books,[21][2][22] Luisa: Now and Then,[23] A House Without Windows,[24] and For Justice: The Serge and Beate Klarsfeld Story.[25] Her translation of Luisa received the Stonewall Book Awards-Barbara Gittings Literature Award,[26] and was an honor book at the 2020 GLLI YA Book in Translation Awards.[27]
References
- ^ a b c "Group revives works of those who perished in the Holocaust – J." 30 October 2015.
- ^ a b "Profile - Nanette Cooper McGuinness - The Authors Guild". www.authorsguild.net.
- ^ a b "Centaur releases a fascinating 'project within a project'". byteclay.com.
- ^ "Ensemble champions new music from around the world". 27 May 2017.
- ^ a b "The Guernica Project: World Premiere".
- ^ "Features". Deezer.
- ^ "An Ensemble Asks What Picasso's Guernica Means in These Times".
- ^ "A War Atrocity Inspires Twice - Classical KDFC". 6 April 2017.
- ^ ""Guernica Project" Concert to honor bombing of Gernika".
- ^ Swinkels, Niels. "Mother, Sister, Daughter, Marvel ~ Ensemble for These Times ~ Timon of Athens ~ Nathaniel Dorsky". www.kalw.org. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "Ensemble for These Times". www.e4tt.org. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "WINNERS: The American Prize in Chamber Music Performance, 2018-19".
- ^ "FINALISTS: American Music (Ernst Bacon Award), ensembles, 2018-19".
- ^ "Alumni News 2019 | Department of Music Cornell Arts & Sciences".
- ^ "Once/Memory/Night: Paul Celan Ensemble for These Times".
- ^ "Textura".
- ^ "Ensemble for These Times | San Francisco Classical Voice".
- ^ "Ensemble for These Times".
- ^ "Children's Book Review: Dinosaurs: In the Beginning... by Arnaud Plumeri, trans. from the French by Nanette McGuinness, illus. by Bloz. Papercutz (Macmillan, dist.), $10.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-59707-490-2". 7 January 2014.
- ^ "California Dreamin': Cass Elliot Before the Mamas & the Papas Breaks Through the Biographical Noise". 9 March 2017.
- ^ "GERONIMO STILTON by Geronimo Stilton , Lorenzo De Pretto , Michela Battaglin , Nanette McGuinness - Kirkus Reviews".
- ^ "A Graphic Bio of Cass Elliot Traces the Singer's Complicated Rise to Fame". 30 March 2017.
- ^ "Luisa: Now and Then - Review". Publishers Weekly. 20 June 2018.
- ^ Chute, Hillary (29 April 2021). "How do You Illustrate Resilience? These Graphic Novels Show the Way". The New York Times.
- ^ "Look Inside Nazi Hunter Memoir 'For Justice'". The Hollywood Reporter. 25 January 2021.
- ^ "Stonewall Book Awards List". 9 September 2009.
- ^ "2020 Translated YA Book Prize Winners". 2 April 2020.