Guy Klucevsek (CRF 1999) has combined his accordion with Jenny Lin’s piano in their new album Giya Kancheli: Simple Music. The album was released by Steinway & Sons on April 2nd, 2021. Klucevsek says it was a “true pandemic project. [They] did the collection of 33 pieces as a combination of piano solos, accordion solos, and duos, but Jenny had to record her solos and duo parts in a studio in Virginia in July; [Guy] had to record [his] solos and overdub [his] duo parts in August [at his home] with the sound engineer in the basement, hooked up by ethernet/Zoom to the producer in North Carolina… But, somehow, it all came together, and through the magic of very talented and dedicated producers [and] engineers, it sounds like it was done in the same place at the same time.”
Simple Music is a collection of inspired fragments from themes of classic Georgian plays and films for the stage and screen by Giya Kancheli. Kancheli’s Simple Music is performed, improvised, arranged, even reimagined by the innovative pianist Jenny Lin and accordion virtuoso Guy Klucevsek as an engaging mixture of solos and duos. Learn more here, and stream the album everywhere.