Resonating Earth: A Piano Performance and Film Experience by Carolyn Enger

Resonating Earth: A Piano Performance and Film Experience by Carolyn Enger

Join us on Sunday, March 2 for Resonating Earth, a live piano performance by critically acclaimed pianist Carolyn Enger to accompany her film’s ambient soundscape. The film contains images of unexpected beauty in our changing environment and inspires environmental activism in an artistic, musically immersive way.

From the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to coal burning plants in the Ruhr Valley of Germany, from the glorious heights of mountain ranges in Alaska to mountains of potassium waste in Eastern Germany, Resonating Earth was created in response to the climate crisis. Ms. Enger performs live piano music along with her film, a stylistically fluid creation with a wide range of ambient music, including J.S. Bach, Marcos Balter, John Cage, Claude Debussy, Philip Glass, Iman Habibi, Pia Møller Johansen, Lee Kesselman, Missy Mazzoli, Meredith Monk, Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw, Robert Sirota, and Scott Wollschleger; alongside stunning imagery of the environment by Peabody Award-winning producer Elliott Forrest (WQXR), visual artist Myles Aronowitz, and internationally-exhibited environmental activist and photographer J Henry Fair. Resonating Earth creates a soundscape focusing on the beauty in our environment and inspires environmental activism in an artistic, musically immersive way.

Resonating Earth seeks to transport listeners to a still, meditative space, allowing them to decompress from their daily lives, and invites introspection about humanity’s place on the planet, inspiring action to protect our beautiful, fragile world.

About Carolyn Enger

Internationally celebrated American pianist Carolyn Enger has gained critical acclaim for her exquisite lyrical playing, as well as her deeply felt interpretations. In addition to an active performance schedule on two continents, including recent performances at The National Gallery Oslo, Baruch College, Kean University and Noontime Concerts in San Francisco, Ms. Enger has enjoyed remarkable success as a recording artist. The New York Times selected her Naxos recording of intimate Ned Rorem miniatures, Piano Album I & Six Friends, as one of the newspaper’s Best in Classical Recordings, writing, “Among the 90th–birthday tributes this year to the essential American composer Ned Rorem, this recording especially stands out,” while Gramophone declared, “Enger raises the miniatures to a higher level.” Recently the recording was Album of the Week on Sirius XM’s Symphony Hall and was featured on their program Living American. Her latest recording, Resonating Earth, was released in September 2024.

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