Kevin Bazzana is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 music historian and biographer, best known for his works on the influential Canadian pianist Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould

Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach...

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A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Bazzana currently lives in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia

Brentwood Bay, British Columbia

Brentwood Bay, is a small neighbourhood in the municipality of Central Saanich, on the Saanich Peninsula. It lies north of the city of Victoria and south of Sidney on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Situated on the Saanich Inlet, it includes the Butchart Gardens, the Victoria Butterfly...

In addition to two works on Glenn Gould, Glenn Gould: The Performer in the Work (1997) and Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould (2003), he also published a work on Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 pianist Ervin Nyiregyhazi

Ervin Nyíregyházi

Ervin Nyíregyházi was a Hungarian-born American pianist.-Childhood and early career:...

, Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick, in 2007. Lost Genius is currently a nominee for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize

Charles Taylor Prize

The Charles Taylor Prize is a Canadian literary award, presented by the Charles Taylor Foundation to the best Canadian work of literary non-fiction. It is named for Charles Taylor, a noted Canadian historian and writer....

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Bazzana wrote the liner notes to the 2007 Zenph Re-Performance® CD Glenn Gould: Bach's Goldberg Variations on Sony BMG.

External links

• Author Spotlight: Kevin Bazzana at McClelland & Stewart
• http://traffic.libsyn.com/offbeatradio/KEVINBAZZANASPECIALPART1FINAL.mp3Kevin Bazzana talks Maverick Pianists and Glenn Gould in a conversation with Karishmeh Felfeli
  Karishmeh Felfeli
  Karishmeh Felfeli is a radio broadcaster, pianist, vocalist and creator of , a critically acclaimed classical music and arts radio program for Dublin City FM...
  
   for Offbeat, 103.2 Dublin City FM - Part 1]
• http://traffic.libsyn.com/offbeatradio/KEVINBAZZANASPECIALPART2FINAL2.mp3Kevin Bazzana talks Maverick Pianists and Glenn Gould in a conversation with Karishmeh Felfeli
  Karishmeh Felfeli
  Karishmeh Felfeli is a radio broadcaster, pianist, vocalist and creator of , a critically acclaimed classical music and arts radio program for Dublin City FM...
  
   for Offbeat, 103.2 Dublin City FM - Part 2]
• http://traffic.libsyn.com/offbeatradio/kevinbazzana13augprogramcomplete.mp3Kevin Bazzana talks about Ervin Nyiregyhazi to Karishmeh Felfeli
  Karishmeh Felfeli
  Karishmeh Felfeli is a radio broadcaster, pianist, vocalist and creator of , a critically acclaimed classical music and arts radio program for Dublin City FM...
  
  for Offbeat, 103.2 Dublin City FM]