Carolyn Enger, pianist

Critically acclaimed pianist Carolyn Enger’s Resonating Earth is a multimedia solo piano performance that creates a meditative space for listeners to engage with music and environmental art, in order to directly inspire environmental action afterward.

Resonating Earth is an hour-long cinematic concert in collaboration with imagery from video artist and Peabody-winning producer Elliott Forrest (WQXR), artist and activist J. Henry Fair, and visual storyteller Myles Aronowitz, Resonating Earth pairs music from the Baroque period to the present with arresting natural imagery.

This presentation aims to provide a positive, calm space to inspire audience members to move their thoughts of climate change. By exploring the historical connections of composers and their environments, Resonating Earth connects the process of artmaking to its ecological context. Inspired by the music of J.S. Bach, for example, Fair includes footage of mountains of potassium waste in Herringen, Saxony, on the Werre River, near Bach’s birthplace and where he likely swam as a child. Audiences will be interested in slowing down and enjoying a distinctive interdisciplinary concert.

Carolyn spent a week in the schools presenting this incredible performance, inspiring children to create their own media!