Kathleen Tagg

Kathleen Tagg is a South African pianist, composer and producer based in New York since 2001. A 2014 South African Music Awards nominee for best classical album, she has performed on four continents with a host of leading musicians, and the breadth of her collaborations defines her multifaceted career. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, 92nd St Y and Symphony Space in New York, but is equally at home in non-conventional spaces and theater. Her performances and numerous recordings range from classical to world music, musical theater to her own music mixing improvisation with fully realized scores. She holds the Helen Cohn Award as outstanding doctoral graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, as well as degrees from Mannes College and the University of Cape Town. She was on the faculty of SongFest at Colburn in Los Angeles from 2014-2016. She has performed throughout North America, Europe, Southern Africa, China and India and her recordings have been featured in film and television. Recent recordings include the songs of Jake Heggie with soprano Regina Zona (NAXOS, 2014) and Where Worlds Collide (Table Pounding Records, 2016) with South African jazz pianist Andre Petersen. Her latest recording Breath & Hammer with clarinetist David Krakauer will be released this season. As a team, Krakauer and Tagg have created an evening-length work, Keepers of the Flame, for the Borderlands Foundation in Sejny, Poland, as well as performing their Breath & Hammer project and genre-crossing concert programs on four continents. Her work was performed and commissioned by the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, New Century Chamber Orchestra and the Jewish Culturefest Vienna. Her musical, Erika’s Wall, co-written with Sophie Jaff, received a developmental production by The Music Theater Company of Chicago. She was a 2014-2015 fellow of the Dramatist Guild of America and 2017 Con Ed Exploring the Metropolis Composer in Residence. This season includes a newly designed show with David Krakauer and video designer Jesse Gilbert for the Boulez Saal in Berlin and performances at the National Gallery in D.C., the Nasher Museum in Dallas and a month-long residency at WITS University in Johannesburg. www.kathleentagg.com

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