{"id":10464,"date":"2021-03-08T10:11:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T10:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=10464"},"modified":"2021-03-12T13:53:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T13:53:44","slug":"in-conversation-pianist-and-festival-director-libby-burgess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2021\/03\/08\/in-conversation-pianist-and-festival-director-libby-burgess\/","title":{"rendered":"In Conversation: pianist and festival director Libby Burgess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our In<strong><em> Conversation <\/em><\/strong>series continues\u00a0with pianist and festival director,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.libbyburgess.com\/\"> <strong>Libby Burgess<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10465 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2021\/03\/LibbyHeadshots-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"179\" \/>Pianist, chamber musician and accompanist, Libby&#8217;s work has taken her to festivals and concert-halls around the country. She is also Artistic Director of the New Paths Festival, founded in 2016 and which takes place each spring in Beverley, and Co-Artistic Director of Beverley&#8217;s own Chamber Music Festival.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview , Libby reflects on finding new ways to engage audiences for the New Paths Festival in light of the pandemic, her own responses as pianist and vocal coach, and looks ahead to her &#8216; Bach Project48,&#8217; setting herself the ambitious challenge of playing all of Bach&#8217;s <em>48 Preludes and Fugues<\/em> in each of the forty-eight counties of England, and what effect playing the entire set in different venues throughout the country might have on her own relationship to the famed set.<\/p>\n<p>There are two option: the interview is free to watch on our YouTube channel here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='474' height='297' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TO1pKVBiasM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10453\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2021\/02\/Zoom_For_Thought_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or for those who prefer their content as a podcast, you can listen to the conversation <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3Gdnm2js3aTPZPvdAMjSPv?si=AAktCV-oT_2wgeMpH_FMvg&amp;nd=1\"><strong>on Spotify here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2021\/03\/08\/in-conversation-pianist-and-festival-director-libby-burgess\/&amp;t=In Conversation: pianist and festival director Libby Burgess' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=In Conversation: pianist and festival director Libby Burgess%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2021\/03\/08\/in-conversation-pianist-and-festival-director-libby-burgess\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2021\/03\/08\/in-conversation-pianist-and-festival-director-libby-burgess\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2021\/03\/08\/in-conversation-pianist-and-festival-director-libby-burgess\/&amp;title=In Conversation: pianist and festival director Libby Burgess' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2021\/03\/08\/in-conversation-pianist-and-festival-director-libby-burgess\/&amp;title=In Conversation: pianist and festival director Libby Burgess' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our In Conversation series continues\u00a0with pianist and festival director, Libby Burgess. Pianist, chamber musician and accompanist, Libby&#8217;s work has taken her to festivals and concert-halls around the country. She is also Artistic Director of the New Paths Festival, founded in 2016 and which takes place each spring in Beverley, and Co-Artistic Director of Beverley&#8217;s own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2021\/03\/08\/in-conversation-pianist-and-festival-director-libby-burgess\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Conversation: pianist and festival director Libby Burgess<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":10465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1110],"tags":[227889,72963,227888,227887],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10464"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10472,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464\/revisions\/10472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}