Press Releases
Edmonton Journal: January 16, 2005
Bill Rankin
Culture Writer
Concert Review: Bach Suites Nos. 1, 5, 6 for Unaccompanied Cello
Saturday, January 14 , 2005
". . . the final impression was of an artist placing her cairn on the long road every serious cellist is on, where Bach's great accomplishment is brought to life anew in the live performance, where all the risks and sublime revelations await. Few of us will come to that path except as listeners."
Institute for Canadian Music Newsletter: May 2004
Drew Stephen
Concert Review: March 7, 2004
World Premiere of La Rosa Enflorece,
Concerto for cello and orchestra by Alfred Fisher
Kingston Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Glen Fast
". . . More than just a soloist, the solo cello takes on the role of narrator and reciter, with the orchestra providing its choral commentary. This persona, for the Kingston premiere, was undertaken brilliantly by the cellist Tanya Prochazka, for whom the part was written . . . This aspect was clearly evident in Prochazka’s performance. The work is laden with a sense of intimacy and emotional depth which she conveyed with integrity and intelligence. Part of her approach in preparing the work was to "transcend cello'; that is, to go beyond the communicative limitations of instrumental music. In doing so she conveyed deeper truths of the music that lie beyond the boundaries of language. Her intensity and sincerity of expression were not lost on the audience. The response was overwhelmingly warm, supportive and enthusiastic . . ."
The Strad: March 2004
Catherine Nelson
CD review: The New Goldberg Variations
ARKTOS 200368
". . . Cellist Tanya Prochazka and pianist Jacques Després, who gave the work its premiere, are committed to ensuring that this diverse set of variations is heard as a united whole and the spacious acoustic lends a pleasing bloom to the recorded sound . . . Prochazka shows her mettle in the searing emotion of Rouse’s Cantilena and in Peter Lieberson’s Three Variations, particularly the rhapsodic first, the players’ attention to every detail makes this music mesmerizing.
Corigliano’s Fancy on a Bach Air is reminiscent of John Tavener in its contemplative soaring beauty . . . After Daniel pour’s intense and bewitching Fantasy Variations, Bach’s Aria brings the work full circle — an intriguing and adventurous project which in places has the power to thrill."
National Post: January 5, 2004
Tamara Bernstein
CD review: The New Goldberg Variations
ARKTOS 200368
". . . Bravi to cellist Tanya Prochazka and pianist Jacques Després; these outstanding, Edmonton-based artists bring humanity, integrity and enormous expressive range to the pieces . . ."
Edmonton Journal: October 19, 2003
Bill Rankin
Concert review: Novak, Smetana and Dvořák piano trios
". . . Prochazka, from the opening mournful passage in the Dvořák, revelled in the long dark line her instrument is so equipped to produce . . .
. . . she played her heart out . . ."
Edmonton Journal: October 12, 2003
Bill Rankin
CD Review: Stringtime: Canadian Chamber Music
ECLECTRA
". . . Alice Ho’s Caprice for cello has a few triads, but no diatonic meanderings. No nostalgia here. Tanya Prochazka plays with her usual intensity and in her hands we can hear a musically coherent narrative . . ."