for Edna by Leila Adu-Gilmore featured on Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline.
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Cadenza’s David Osenberg interviews Amanda Gookin for WWFM Classical
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“The performances clearly reflect Gookin's virtuosic command… but the playing is always used in the service of bringing the composer's material to its optimal realization.” -textura (September 2020)
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“I was woefully ignorant of Amanda Gookin before this inspired listen, but I have surely become among her greatest fans. A significant and most welcome collaboration for the times.”
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“This playlist is a celebration of the feminine spirit. You’ll hear introspective meditations, raw storytelling, spiritual awakening, and pure joy. And because I’m a part of such a beautiful, tight-knit new music community, I have the pleasure of saying that I’ve worked with some of these artists and can say that they are just as beautiful human beings as they are musicians.”
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“Rest assured that everything here exists on a level of glorious musicality, with access to the artists' intentions not a requirement for listening. But once you know, you will be even more floored by what Gookin has achieved here”
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“As the new music scene deals with its demons of white-supremacist patriarchy, Forward Music Project is exactly the kind of effort that can guide our community toward sincere personal connection by centering the earnest interests of female-identifying composers.”
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Room to Breathe - For the Record (Steve Smith)
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AMANDA GOOKIN | Forward Music Project 1.0 | #6 Billboard Traditional Classical Albums
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“The joy of transmitting knowledge is perceptible” - SETH COLTER WALLS - NY TIMES (July 2020)
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