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The World of MICROVIDS 🎶 Composer, Stefania de Kenessey on Music, Poetry & Love
Season 6 Episode 3
🎶✨ How can nineteen tiny piano miniatures blossom into one of the most expansive, collaborative, and award-winning projects of our time?
Welcome to Season 6 Episode 3: The World of MICROVIDS — Composer & Advocate for Women in Music, Stefania de Kenessey. In this episode of The Piano Pod, I sit down with Stefania de Kenessey, a composer whose works have been heard at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, La MaMa, and around the world.
Her latest project, Microvids, began as nineteen piano miniatures written during the pandemic — and has since grown into a global tapestry of music, poetry, improvisation, orchestral performance, and film.
In our conversation, Stefania opens up about:
- ✅ The surprising origins of MICROVIDS and how “tiny nothings” became her richest work
- ✅ Collaborations with pianist Donna Weng Friedman, violinist Curtis Stewart, narrator Krystal Joy Brown, and the New Jersey Youth Symphony under Helen Cha-Pyo
- ✅ Award-winning films inspired by MICROVIDS, including Silent Cry
- ✅ How MICROVIDS can connect with youth orchestras and piano students around the world
- ✅ Her advocacy for women in music, her Hungarian roots, and her expansive multi-genre style — from opera to dance to provocative video works like Menstrual Rosary
👉 Stay tuned until the end for rapid-fire fun, candid reflections, and exclusive performance excerpts from MICROVIDS, Unorthodox, and Menstrual Rosary.
https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6751/
- 🌐 Stefania's Website
- 🎬 Watch Silent Cry (award-winning short film)
- 🎬 Watch Menstrual Rosary (winner of 33 film awards)
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