Please join me
in NYC for the opening of my show of new photographs and paintings
Saturday November 17, from 1:00 to 3:00pm. The show will be
up for three months. Pisticci Restaurant has great food
and atmosphere.
The Moment
new photographs and paintings by Nancy Knowles
OPENING Saturday, Nov 17 1:00-3:00pm
show runs
November 17-February 2, 2012
Pisticci Restaurant NYC
125 La Salle St, Between Broadway & Claremont
Subway: 1/9 to 125th street, walk two blocks south.
ĄSANDY! Below is a preview of ĄSANDY!, Nancy's new triptych painted during the storm; click on painting for directions and more information
Duo
LiveOak CD The Great Deep, songs of transition
by Frank Wallace, sung by Nancy Knowles, mezzo soprano with Frank
Wallace on ten-string guitar by Stephan Connor. Listen to selections
below. Purchase CD at Gyremusic.com,
or click on BUY buttons below to go to www.CDBaby.com
to purchase MP3s or CD.
The
Great Deep Collection, set of seven signed postcards,
photographs by Nancy Knowles with envelopes. (SOLD OUT!
Stay tuned for the next postcard edition of recent photographs.)
Click on images to enlarge.
Enjoy
Knowles' poetry, singing, and visual art at her BLOG.
About
Nancy Knowles
As
a mezzo-soprano and poet Nancy Knowles has a longstanding reputation
for her skillful interweaving of song, poetry and drama both in
concert with LiveOak and in her own solo shows."Knowles'
exceptionally beautiful soprano carried the evening in song and
declaimed poetry..." -The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Aside
from the beauty of her voice, audiences and critics comment most
about Nancy Knowles' engaging presence on stage. It comes as no
surprise that she's a poet and natural linguist, given her obvious
passion for the words, both their meaning and the emotional colors
conveyed by their sound. Whether as a singer, poet, visual artist,
actress or teacher, a grace and a playfulness in her work reflect
the counterpoint of her technique and her down-to-earth humor.
As
a mezzo-soprano Knowles performs concerts of contemporary song
as Duo LiveOak
with guitarist/baritone/composer Frank
Wallace. Knowles also performs her own solo shows,
ranging from dramatic works, as in her theatrical memoir The
House of Fools, which combines her masks, original poetry,
and unaccompanied songs from many traditions to her concert of
medieval song, Voice of the
Rose, the sacred feminine,
featuring the unaccompanied songs of medieval Spain, with
frame drums, haunting flutes and stories. [Click
to hear flute improvisation, Ondas do Mar.
Her
current solo show is LUNA, a tragicomedy written
and performed by Knowles with original score and live accompaniment
by Frank Wallace on ten-string guitar. LUNA
is a multidimensional transformative story that combines her multiple
talents to offer a window into her mother Phoebe’s final
years––a woman who painted her way through multiple
tragedies with spirit and humor well into her mid-nineties. As
her life shrinks, their whimsical and intimate letters, journals,
and conversations on space and grace, loss, love, aging, art and
madness tug at their masks, transcend taboos, lay bare their secrets.
Knowles
has toured widely throughout the U.S. and Europe for over
25
years, performing at festivals such as the Holland Festival, the
Regensburg Festival, Musica en Compostela, the Boston Early Music
Festival, and the Guitar Foundation of America Festival. She can
be heard on ten recordings (Titanic Records, Musical Heritage
Society Centaur Records and Gyre). Her most recent CD, released
in 2011 on Gyre, is Duo LiveOak's The
Great Deep: songs of transition
A
poet for almost thirty years, [read her poetry]
in her performances with Duo LiveOak Knowles now has the joy of
singing her poems in songs written by Wallace as well as collaborating
with him in choosing song texts from other poets for his song
cycles. From the late 1970s through the 1990's Nancy Knowles
specialized in music of the 12th to 16th centuries, recording
and touring throughout the U.S. and Europe with the ensembles
LiveOak (Trio
LiveOak and LiveOak and Company). Knowles has studied
with Marleen Montgomery, Marcy Lindheimer, Dagmar Apel, Carl Stough,
and Roland Seiler.
Having grown up in an
artistic family (her mother, Phoebe Knowles, is a painter, her
brother is sculptor/painter James Knowles), Knowles' life in the
arts began with visual art, particularly photography.
Her current work in abstract photography grace the covers of the
Frank Wallace Music Editions on Gyre
Publications. The principal outlet for her visual skills,
however, has been in support of her performing: making masks,
sets and costumes for dramatic productions, and doing design
work for LiveOak's many enterprises over the years. She lives
with her husband Frank Wallace in a 1789 farmhouse in the historic,
scenic Monadnock region of New Hampshire. They have two grown
sons.
Poster
for 2011 debut of
LUNA,
a tragicomedy Knowles' current one-woman show with original
songs by Frank Wallace:
THE
HOUSE OF FOOLS (2002)
a
theatrical memoir
Please click on image below
to
view a slide show of a scene in Knowles' one woman show. Photographs by Elsa Voelcker
Mask by Nancy Knowles
PHOTOGRAPHY
(2005)
Please click on image below
to
view Knowles' photo essay
Jardín
de Calla:
Peru
Revisited
(2005)
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