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About the Artist
International Musician of the Year 2004
Composer and Pianist from the International Biographical Centre,
Cambridge, England.
Exerpts from The Westword
profile, July 15, 1999:
His music may
be hard to categorize--CD stores can't seem to decide if it
belongs in the classical, jazz, new-age or "contemporary"
bins--but it has attracted a following in unlikely places.
Colaiannia says that Salt Lake City loves him...and there
are classically trained musicians in Kiev and Khabarovsk--a
small, isolated city in far eastern Russia--who are hot for
his program. The Russian connection arose out of
Colaiannia's involvement with the Denver-based Joy of Music
Marathon, which brings together musicians to perform
simultaneous concerts in different countries to promote
world peace and various music-oriented charities; that led
to musicians in Khabarovsk performing Colaiannia's music and
an invitation to debut his first symphony there this fall.
In a short essay, Russian musicologist Elena Soloviova
describes Colaiannia's work as "simple, harmonious and
elevated" and "extraordinarily democratic," and suggests
that it may be "the music of the third millennium."
For the full article, click here.
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