What People Are Saying

“What Ms. Supové is really exploding is the piano recital as we have known it, a mission more radical and arguably more needed.” Anthony Tommasini, NY Times

“This was classical music played like the best rock’n’roll. It was passionate, earnest, loud and more complex than the gatekeepers of high culture would like to think. Brava.” Ben Sisario, NY Press

…”So though the evening was titled ‘Everyday Things,’ Supové is hardly an everyday artist…Pianist Kathleen Supové has described herself as a fan of 1950s variety shows. And to judge by the opening selection in her New Gallery Concert Series recital…(in)…Boston Thursday evening, her enthusiasm extends to the commercials. Dutch composer JacobTV’s “The Body of Your Dreams” (2004) pits its pianist against spoken-word samples from an American television informercial about the Abtronic Pro. “Now you’re ready to hear about the latest evolution in the fitness phenomenon,” the voice started off, and to the insistent strains of “Oh my gosh!” and “That’s amazing!,” Supové’s fingers bounced about the keys of her Mason & Hamlin, conveying the frustration, the exhilaration, and the tedium of weight loss before turning lyrical for “the body of your dreams.”…Supové has the technique to burn off any amount of calories, and she coordinated perfectly with the soundtrack, responding to its every ooh and ahh…” Jeffrey Gantz, The Boston Globe

“A concert poster in Kathleen Supové’s practice room shows a piano levitating above the roof of a city warehouse. Created for one of her performances, it is an apt visual metaphor for the career of the vividly redheaded pianist. During the past few decades, she has expanded the keyboard repertoire in number (commissioning about 75 pieces) and scope (introducing electronic or theatrical elements), tweaking conventional notions of the classical recitalist in the process.” Barbara Jepson, The Wall Street Journal

“Pianists don’t come more imaginative than Kathleen Supové…” Bruce Hodges, http://seenandheard-international.com/

“The best pianist living in New York you probably never heard of is Kathy Supové. I’ve written about her before, and photographed some of her performances, but every time I hear her again, I reaffirm what I already knew: I know what I’m not missing.” Arthur Kaye, classical music blogger and photographer

“Gaunt, slight stoop, voice like sandpaper, wearing killer camp, Kathleen Supové slipped into LA as softly as she left. Still she’s so New York, a spitting image of the city’s big montage: that speakeasy grace, that Disco flash, that stock broker hustle, that Warhol poker face. It’s all there.” Damjan Rakonjac, http://artificialist.blogspot.com/