“The American pianist Elizabeth Newkirk… interprets the classics with much attention to detail and with a unique poise and delivery.”

“Newkirk dissects the myth of the American dream with commanding intellectual precision, maintaining that an understanding of the country’s cultural identity is best accomplished through the lens of two important philosophical schools…”

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“… I can enjoy it either way, especially in this performance thanks to Newkirk’s beautifully impressionist shades and colors.”

It is the story of the American Dream, the story of innovation, of creativity and of the vast breadth of its landscape and the variety of its peoples, both native and immigrant.

This fascinating album presents three interwar orchestral scores in transcriptions for solo piano. Newkirk draws her programme together with an erudite booklet note exploring the making of the American myth.

Elizabeth Newkirk explores American identity through her debut album of interwar pieces by Ravel, Gershwin and William Grant Still.

Newkirk delivers engaged and engaging treatments of all three pieces, with arguably her rendering of Still's Africa the highlight for bringing attention to this less familiar composition.

The Americanist debuts #2 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Charts!

The Americanist // Playlisitng: Apple Music, New in Classical

Houston pianist Elizabeth Newkirk thinks that American music is still in search of its cultural identity.

Americanist | Tidal: Piano Studio

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