Eve Egoyan
Eve Egoyan (born 1964 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Toronto-based pianist of Armenian parentage who specializes in new works for the piano. She studied at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, the University of Victoria and the University of Toronto, with teachers including György Sebők. Her solo albums range from Satie to Linda Catlin Smith, and with the media artist David Rokeby she has made multimedia works such as Surface Tension. On Asking (Mode) she plays the large-scale solo piece of that name written for her by Maria de Alvear, recorded in Toronto in 2003.
Hopeful Monster
*2025 stock* "In experimental music, artists are often praised for taking risks, yet it's seldom that the conditions that inspire and enable their plunges into yet-unknown realms are discussed. The powerful music found on Hopeful Monster, the partnership between acclaimed Toronto-based pianist Eve Egoyan and Costa Rican-born, British composer-musician Mauricio Pauly (who now lives and works in Vancouver), is a testament to the vitality of these very conditions. Their collaboration began in 2018 …
Asking
First recording of Maria de Alvear's Asking (2001), a 53-minute open-structure work for solo piano composed for and performed by Eve Egoyan.
De Puro Amor & En Amor Duro
*2021 stock* What is one to make of Maria de Alvear’s two long solos for piano, De puro amor (‘Of pure love’) and En amor duro (‘In hard love’), both composed in 1991. The scores themselves, if one decides to start from here, are completely perplexing. Pages and pages are marked with hastily scratched notes, sometimes repeating themselves dozens of times. Little priority seems to have been given to rhythm, dynamics or articulation; even less to the notational conventions such as barlines, spacin…