Open AccessThe Complete Artistic Self: Five Collaborators Talk about Barbara Hannigan
Author(s) -
Emanuelle Majeau-Bettez
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
circuit
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1488-9692
pISSN - 1183-1693
DOI - 10.7202/1073927ar
Subject(s) - george (robot) , performing arts , formative assessment , visual arts , character (mathematics) , performance art , personality , art , aesthetics , psychology , art history , psychoanalysis , pedagogy , geometry , mathematics
Who is Barbara Hannigan, as a singer, performer, conductor, mentor, andcommunity-involved musician? What is the impact of her personality on the musicscene? How has her artistic character evolved throughout her formative andprofessional years? With these questions in mind, I interviewed five of Hannigan’sclosest, and most important collaborators and mentors: Hans Abrahamsen, GeorgeBenjamin, Gary Kulesha, Mary Morrison and Thomas Morris. Individually, theinterviews shed light on specific phases and events in Hannigan’s career, from herundergraduate studies to the present. Taken as a whole, they open the door tounderstanding Barbara Hannigan as a complete—and completelyfearless—artist.