Composer Debra Kaye's debut Ravello Records release, AND SO IT BEGINS, catapults the
listener into her deep universe of sound - an expedition down one New York City street
and up another, through the warp and weft of interior landscapes, to Taos Mountain, on
a journey through a dream, a dying, a love - as she blends her classical roots with traces
of jazz, pop, world music, the pulse of city rhythms, and the expansiveness of spacious
landscapes.
In Finding Accord, the 3-way conversation goes in and out of agreement in a tête-à-tête of
musical opposites as the composer creates new timbres for the piano trio using prepared
piano techniques and percussive accents of an ankle bell. Incidental Ducklings brings
quacking ducks to life through Kaye's playful wit and irony. Béla Fleck meets Schubert in
Africa in The Doppelganger as Kaye explores the colors of the trombone, while The Beauty
Way and Visions bring us the light, the air, the magic of Taos NM.
Holding degrees from Mannes College of Music and New York University, Kaye is on the
faculty of the Mannes College Preparatory Division. She has served as Executive Director of
the NY Composers Circle and President of the Howland Chamber Music Circle in Beacon NY.