Kevin John Bazzana (born 1963) is a

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music historian and biographer, best known for his works on the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. Bazzana is a graduate of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, and the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...

. He lives in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia.

Literary career

Kevin Bazzana has written two books about Gould, ''Glenn Gould: The Performer in the Work'' (1997) and ''Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould'' (2003). ''Wondrous Strange'' was nominated for the 2004 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction.''Wilfrid Laurier University''
2004: Andrea Curtis, (retrieved 11/17/2012) Bazzana also wrote a book about Hungarian pianist

Ervin Nyiregyházi Ervin Nyiregyházi (January 19, 1903, BudapestApril 8, 1987, Los Angeles) was a Hungarian-American pianist and composer. After several years on the concert stage in the 1920s, he descended into relative obscurity before briefly reemerging in the ...

, ''Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick'' (2007). ''Lost Genius'' was a nominee for the 2008

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. Bazzana also wrote the liner notes for the 2007 Zenph Studios Re-Performance CD '' Bach: The Goldberg Variations'' on

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.Is It Live ... or Yamaha? Channeling Glenn Gould
''The New York Times'', March 12, 2007, by;

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, (retrieved 11/18/2012)

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