Canadian Pianist Marika Bournaki returns to Carnegie Hall to Benefit The Glenn Gould Foundation
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 10:38AM “Astonishing maturity... Marika Bournaki displayed amazing refinement and poetry.”
- Thomas Beaujean, Aachener Zeitung
TORONTO (September 30, 2011) This November, twenty year-old Canadian musical sensation Marika Bournaki returns to Carnegie Hall to play a benefit recital for The Glenn Gould Foundation.
"We are proud to have worked with Marika on a number of exciting projects," said Brian Levine, Executive Director of the Foundation. "Her first benefit recital for us in 2008 was such a spectacular success that we jumped at the opportunity when she offered to support us with another performance," said Mr. Levine.
As part of its mission to extend the legacy of Glenn Gould, the Foundation recognizes and celebrates young artists of extraordinary promise, providing the kind of support that helped launch Gould’s meteoric rise. In 2007, Marika made a powerful impression on audiences when she opened the 18-month-long exhibition, Glenn Gould: The Sounds of Genius at the Canadian Museum of Civilization with a performance on Gould's favourite Steinway piano. The event also marked the international celebration of the 75th anniversary of Gould’s birth. Marika's New York debut in benefit of The Glenn Gould Foundation soon followed in 2008. She also performed in front of distinguished audiences at an event honouring the Eighth Glenn Gould Prize Jury, including the world-renowned dramatic tenor Ben Heppner, the late Academy-Award winning director, playwright and screenwriter Anthony Minghella, award-winning author Michael Ondaatje and famed composer, musicologist and broadcaster Peter Shickele.






