Kevin Bazzana
{{short description|Canadian music historian and biographer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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Kevin John Bazzana (born 1963) is a Canadian music historian and biographer, best known for his works on the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. Bazzana is a graduate of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, and the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia.
Literary career
Kevin Bazzana has written two books about Gould, Glenn Gould: The Performer in the Work (1997) and Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould (2003). The former's content came from Bazzana's doctoral dissertation on Gould, completed under the supervision of Richard Taruskin.{{cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/kevin-bazzana-emc|website=The Canadian Encyclopedia|date=March 4, 2015|title=Kevin Bazzana}} Wondrous Strange was nominated for the 2004 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121001115304/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11309 Wilfrid Laurier University] 2004: Andrea Curtis, (retrieved 11/17/2012) Bazzana also wrote a book about Hungarian pianist Ervin Nyiregyházi, Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick (2007). Lost Genius was a nominee for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}}
Bazzana also wrote the liner notes{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} for the 2007 Zenph Studios Re-Performance CD Bach: The Goldberg Variations on Sony BMG.[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/arts/music/12conn.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Is It Live ... or Yamaha? Channeling Glenn Gould ] The New York Times, March 12, 2007, by; Edward Rothstein, (retrieved 11/18/2012)
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External links
- [http://www.mcclelland.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=36306 Author Spotlight: Kevin Bazzana] at McClelland & Stewart
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Category:Canadian music historians
Category:Canadian male biographers
Category:People from the Capital Regional District
Category:20th-century Canadian male writers
Category:21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
Category:20th-century Canadian biographers
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