Debra Kaye is an award-winning New York composer whose eclectic music draws inspiration from classical, jazz, world music, story telling, current events, found sounds and her training in Dalcroze Eurhythmics. Acclaimed for her “sensitivity and raw power” (New Music Connoisseur), her debut CD And So It Begins (Ravello Records) was on Ted Gioia’s list of top 100 CD’s, and recognized as “…an album that will surely stand the test of time” (babysue.com).
Articles by Debra Kaye:
Sometimes music is a counterbalance to tragedy. And in times of personal grief, I also turn to composition. It’s the role of the artist to dream beyond the borders of...
A sense of place can be the impetus for a piece, motion can be the catalyst. Sometimes a place can affect the music more indirectly.
It’s August and I can finally turn my head to a collaboration with Polish violinist Kinga Augustyn for a concert in mid November—a piece for solo violin influenced by Bach’s...
Looking at life through a musical lens, I see many correspondences that are perhaps easier to see in a city like New York, where the counterpoint of life is omnipresent.