NYsoundCircuit Forms New Advisory Board

NYsoundCircuit has formed its first Advisory Board. Pianist and administrator, Barbara Podgurski, who was the Administrative Advisor in 2020, is now the Chief Advisor on the Advisory Board. Pianist Kathleen Supové also joins the new Advisory Board. The Advisory Board supports, informs, and champions NYsoundCircuit activities. Read more below.

A native of New York, pianist and teaching artist Barbara Podgurski holds a DMA in piano performance from The Graduate Center (CUNY) as well as a BM in piano performance and an MM in both piano performance and music theory from the Mannes College of Music. Dr. Podgurski has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean and Europe and has performed at many of the world’s finest venues including a number of performances at Carnegie Hall. She is a dedicated proponent of new music, focusing on premiering works of NYC based composers and programming such works each season. Dr. Podgurski is currently the Executive and Artistic Director of Musica Reginae Productions in Queens, NY. Recent performances include concerts at Carnegie Hall (NY), at the Luzerne Summer Music Festival (NY) and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, Trinity Church (NYC), concerts in Palm Beach (FL) and St. Croix (USVI), as well as performing Mozart Piano Concerto in c minor K.491 as soloist with the Astoria Symphony Orchestra in NYC. Barbara is an Arts Commissioner Advisor for the Queens Council on the Arts and serves on the Advisory Board for NYsoundCircuit. Most recently, in November 2020 Barbara accepted the position of organist/music director at Trinity St. Andrews Evangelical Lutheran Church in Maspeth, Queens.

“What Ms. Supové is really exploding is the piano recital as we have known it, a mission more radical and arguably more needed.” Anthony Tommasini, NY Times

In May, 2012, Kathleen Supové received the John Cage Award from ASCAP for “the artistry and passion with which she performs, commissions, records, and champions the music of our time.” Ms. Supové annually presents a series of solo concerts entitled THE EXPLODING PIANO. In this series, she has performed and premiered works by a Who’s Who of contemporary music. The Exploding Piano is a multimedia experience using electronics, theatrical elements, vocal rants, staging, and collaboration with artists from other disciplines. She has performed with Yamaha Disklaviers, laptop orchestras, robots, and XReality. Her most recent recording is “Eye To Ivory” on the Starkland label, with works by Guy Barash, Dafna Naphtali, Randall Woolf, Nick Didkovsky, and Mary Ellen Childs, which has been receiving glowing reviews and constant radio play. Upcoming projects include a cross disciplinary, theatrical production about MIGRATION. In December 2019, Ms. Supové received her second ASCAP Plus Award for her work as a composer. She has also been commissioned by Ladies First, Composers Concordance, and Bargemusic, among others. For more info, visit www.supove.com or follow on Facebook (Exploding Piano). Kathleen Supové is very excited to join the Advisory Board of the adventurous and compelling NYsoundCircuit.