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	AVguide.com: Film/Music Recommendations: A Fond Farewell: Joanna Nickrenz (1936-2002)
		Joanna Nickrenz, one of the most prominent classical record producers of the last three decades, died recently in New York at the age of 65.
		Nickrenz objected to recordings that, she said, "make everything sound up-front." "You should," she added, "be able to visualize in your mind the way the players were seated." Similarly, Nickrenz and Aubort avoided using spot mikes for a soloist in a concerto, instead allowing the instrument a "live" blend with the ensemble behind it.
		(Nickrenz, by the way, was at that time much less enthusiastic than Aubort about surround sound, though she conceded it could enliven a dry, unreverberant hall.) The original quad LPs were encoded in Sansui QS, not readily decodable today, though Dolby Pro Logic has a go at it.
	www.avguide.com /film_music/music/musicreviews/joanna_nickrenz.jsp (788 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Her father, Scott Nickrenz, a violist and founding member of the Lenox, Claremont, and Vermeer String Quartets and the Orpheus Trio, is currently artistic director of the Gardner Museum Music Series in Boston and the Spoleto Festival in Italy.
		Nickrenz made a prodigious concerto debut at age eleven at New York's Town Hall; when she was twelve, she met the third member of the Eroica Trio, when she attended the Red Fox Music camp to study with Isabelle Sant'Ambrogio, grandmother of cellist Sara Sant'Ambrogio.
		At Tanglewood, Nickrenz was the recipient of the Rockefeller Fellowship.
	www.emiclassics.com /usa/eroica/nickr.html (306 words)

	Montreal Chamber Music Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Her father, Scott Nickrenz, a violist and founding member of the Lenox, Claremont and Vermeer String Quartets and the Orpheus Trio, holds posts directing chamber music at the New World Symphony in Miami and is currently artistic director of the Gardner Museum Series in Boston.
		At age six, Nickrenz began playing the piano, and was sent to study with German Diez of the Claudio Arrau School in New York City.
		Nickrenz made a prodigious concerto debut at age eleven at New York's Town Hall, where she played the Mozart Piano Concerto in A Major.
	www.festivalmontreal.org /festival/artists_eroica.html (1113 words)

	CityBeat: Playing Around (2002-09-12)
		Nickrenz is one-third of the New York-based Eroica Trio, the guest artists who kick off the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's 2002-2003 season on Friday and Saturday at Music Hall.
		One memorable concert for Nickrenz was an opera house in Hanoi.
		Nickrenz met Pena at the Greenwich House Music School in New York City's Greenwich Village at the age of 9.
	www.citybeat.com /2002-09-12/onstage3.shtml (1020 words)

	Independent Lens . EROICA! . Behind-the-Music \| PBS
		Her mother, Joanna Nickrenz, is a three-time Grammy winning record producer and former concert pianist.
		Her father, Scott Nickrenz, a violist and founding member of the Lenox, Claremont and Vermeer String Quartets and the Orpheus Trio, directs chamber music at Miami’s New World Symphony and is artistic director of the Gardner Museum Series in Boston.
		Nickrenz started playing the piano at age six, and was soon sent to study at the Claudio Arrau School in New York City.
	www.pbs.org /independentlens/eroica/musicians.html (755 words)

	Stereophile: Joanna Nickrenz: 1936–2002
		Nickrenz was released from the hospital on Christmas day and remained at home until her death.
		Nickrenz had been awarded three previous Grammys during her career: Best Classical Album of 1996 for her recording of Corigliano's Of Rage and Remembrance: Symphony No. 1 with the National Symphony Orchestra; Classical Producer of the Year (1996) for that same recording; and a shared award with Mr.
		Nickrenz spent a lifetime proving that didn't have to be the case.
	www.stereophile.com /news/11324 (662 words)

	The Mountain Times
		Nickrenz and Pena first began performing together when they were nine years old.
		All three of the performers come from musical families with Erika’s father, Scott Nickrenz, being a noted violist and her mother, Joanna Nickrenz, being a producer in the classical recording industry.
		Nickrenz served as the chairman of the Music Department of St. Anne’s School in Brooklyn Heights and regularly collaborates with other artists such as Carter Brey, Joshua Bell and Gil Shaham.
	www.mountaintimes.com /mtweekly/2002/1114/eroica.htm (442 words)

	Montreal Chamber Music Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Eroica Trio pianist Erika Nickrenz has played as a solo artist and chamber musician at numerous festivals, including Marlboro, Tanglewood, and the Spoleto Festivals in both Italy and America.
		Erika Nickrenz was born into the music world.
		Her mother, Joanna Nickrenz, was a concert pianist turned three time Grammy winning record producer, who had worked with countless orchestras and with such luminaries as violinist/conductor Pinchus Zuckerman and pianist Andre Watts.
	www.festivalmontreal.org /festivalf/artists_eroica.html (1113 words)

	mofi
		Many of the quadraphonic recordings were recorded by the engineering team of Joanna Nickrenz and Marc J. Aubort.
		Nickrenz and Aubort made some of the finest sounding recordings during the analogue era.
		Cost cutting during mastering and pressing turned the superb sound of the master tapes into the average sounding Vox and Turnabout LPs that were sold to the public.
	www.positive-feedback.com /Issue14/mofi.htm (1153 words)

	Living - The Cincinnati Post
		Nickrenz' mother, Joanna, was a concert pianist and Grammy-winning record producer, her father, Scott, a noted chamber musician (violist).
		Nickrenz met Sant'Ambrogio at a music camp at age 12.
		Nickrenz, who made her concerto debut at 11 at New York's Town Hall, has toured with "Music from Marlboro."
	www.cincypost.com /2002/sep/12/csosd091202.html (429 words)

	Cover Story
		Sara Sant'Ambrogio is the granddaughter of Isabelle Sant'Ambrogio, concert pianist, and the daughter of John Sant'Ambrogio, principal cellist of the St. Louis Symphony.
		Erika Nickrenz' parents are the esteemed violist Scott Nickrenz and Grammy-winning record producer Joanna Nickrenz, who died last year.
		As worked out by Peña, Sant' Ambrogio, and Nickrenz, the legendarily complex piece, with its massive movements and intricate orchestrations, is beautifully, miraculously balanced, illuminating the alternating sweetness and power of the composition.
	www.stringsmagazine.com /issues/Strings116/coverstory.html (1921 words)

	American Music Teacher: Of heroes … and heroines - Eroica Trio
		The young musicians had the incredible fortune to be a part of a collective web of world-accomplished artists that included John Sant'Ambrogio, principal cellist of the St. Louis Symphony; Scott Nickrenz, noted violist; and Joanna Nickrenz, three-time GRAMMY Award winner.
		She is the child of professional musicians Joanna Nickrenz, a concert pianist, and Scott Nickrenz, violist and artistic director of the Gardner Museum Series (Boston).
		Nickrenz has toured with "Music from Marlboro," toured Australia with Chamber Soloists USA and recorded for Musical Heritage/Music Masters and ASV London labels.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2493/is_4_51/ai_82772141 (1424 words)

	Eroica Trio
		Pianist Erika Nickrenz made her concerto debut at New York 's Town Hall at age 11 and was a featured soloist on the PBS series Live from Lincoln Center.
		In the spring of 2003 she gave a performance and rang the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange as part of Steinway's 150th anniversary celebration.
		Joanna Nickrenz, Erika's mother and three-time Grammy Award winner, produced five of its CDs.
	www.bartlesvillesymphony.org /news/eroica.html (1092 words)

	Eroica Trio Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pianist Erika Nickrenz, who made her concerto debut at New York’s Town Hall at the age of 11, was a featured soloist on the PBS series Live from Lincoln Center.
		A recipient of the Rockefeller Tanglewood Fellowship, she began her studies with German Diez and received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard school as a pupil of Abbey Simon.
		The three women of the Eroica each have a young son: Zachary (Erika) and Neal (Adela), were born in the Spring of 2001, and Sebastian (Sara) was born in the Summer of 2004.
	www.eroicatrio.com /html/background.html (1678 words)

	Bruckner Symphony No. 9/Skrowaczewski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Happy to report, the result here suggests an actual concert hall with the orchestra conventionally seated, on a stage, inside a shell, perhaps under reflecting panels.
		This doesn't sound to me like the Minneapolis Orchestra Hall that Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz recorded during the orchestra's Vox years, or that James Mallison and Jack Renner reproduced for Telarc.
		But at least (at last?) it is a real-world venue, not an etheric space around the players -- above, below, and on all sides -- which is the effect I hear in the "Professor's" recordings of Eiji Oue and the orchestra.
	classicalcdreview.com /bruckner9minn.html (463 words)

	Eroica Trio
		Erika Nickrenz (pianoforte), Adela Peña (violino), Sara Sant’Ambrogio (violoncello)
		Il destino dell'Eroica Trio comincia a delinearsi quando, a soli nove anni, Erika Nickrenz e Adela Peña si esibiscono in duo alla Greenwich House.
		Altrettanti insegnamenti sono provenuti da entrambi i genitori della pianista, il noto violista Scott Nickrenz e Joanna Nickrenz, attiva in tutta la produzione discografica dell'Eroica Trio per Angel Emi Classics e vincitrice di 3 Grammy Award.
	www.corradodeinnocentiis.com /EroicaTrioItalian.htm (2112 words)

	JS Online: Dazzling Eroica Trio kicks off Artist Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The smitten critic of the Tucson Citizen referred to violinist Adela Pena, pianist Erika Nickrenz and cellist Sara Sant'Ambrogio, collectively known as the Eroica Trio.
		But don't be fooled; they are highly accomplished Juilliard grads with serious musical ambition and great bloodlines.
		Sant'Ambrogio's father is the longtime principal cellist of the St. Louis Symphony, and Nickrenz is the daughter of noted violist Scott Nickrenz and Grammy-winning record producer Joanna Nickrenz.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/performingarts/sep00/spot22092100.asp?format=print (200 words)

	Eroica Trio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I did not know anything about this trio before hearing their performance of the Gershwin preludes.
		To sum up: all the notes are in place, as neatly placed and as surface-pretty as the mascara and dresses and smiles.
		The recorded sound is excellent, as is usual from producer Joanna Nickrenz (the Eroica pianist's mother).
	www.hallclassicalmusic.com /store/music_B000002RZ6_Eroica-Trio.html (746 words)

	classical music - andante - 1999 march-april
		There is a distracting sonic overlay--almost comb-and-papery--to the tone of the violins, and something very odd, which in predigital days I might have accused of being a bad tape-edit, happens to the lower strings in measure 231 of the Andante.
		On the other hand, producer Joanna Nickrenz has given the timpani better presence, in both soft and loud music, than they have in most recordings of the symphony.
		Like his "Eroica," moreover, Vonk's performance of the "Great C-Major" gets much better as it goes on, reaching a pitch of genuinely musical excitement in the development section of the finale.
	www.andante.com /magazine/article.cfm?id=11431 (1436 words)

	ITVS: press release
		Pianist Erika Nickrenz, who made her concerto debut at New York's Town Hall at the age of 11, was a featured soloist on the PBS series Live from Lincoln Center and has enjoyed a solo career that has taken her across America and Canada, and to Italy, Switzerland and Australia.
		Since the Trio signed with Angel/EMI Classics Records, all of its CDs have been produced by Erika's mother, three-time Grammy Award winner Joanna Nickrenz.
		Future musicians Zachary and Neal, born to Erika and Adela in the spring of 2001, were recently welcomed into the Eroica Trio Family.
	www.itvs.org /pressroom/pressRelease.htm?pressId=196 (1710 words)

	ZWILICH / TOWER orch works
		Despite the dire predictions of Britain’s loopy Nostradamus, Norman Lebrecht, the disc business not only isn’t dead, it is reviving and even begun to thrive.
		On these two discs, the recycling of Marc Aubord and Joanna Nickrenz’s Saint Louis recordings showcases one of the nation’s top six or seven orchestras of 20 years ago, whereas Louisville has always been a second-tier wannabe.
		The technical components are impeccable here, and transfers of Aubord and Nickrenz’s longterm work with the Saint Louis Orchestra does them honor, as both orchestras and both music directors do respectively to the music on these CDs.
	www.classicalcdreview.com /zwi.html (584 words)

	Eroica Trio
		Adela and pianist Erika Nickrenz began performing together at age nine, Erika and cellist Sara Sant'Ambrogio studied together with Sara's grandmother, and the Trio came together at The Juilliard School.
		Five of the Trio's CDs have been produced by Erika's mother, three-time Grammy Award-winner Joanna Nickrenz.
		Bach: Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin in D minor, BWV 1004 (arr.
	events.caltech.edu /events/event-2384.html (136 words)

	SoundStage! Network Ultra Audio -- Archived Article
		Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz, obviously way ahead of their time, engineered the original 4.0 quad master recording.
		No matter the volume level, the violins sound in front of the woodwinds, which sound in front of the trumpets and horns and percussion.
		In the Daphnis suite, Aubort, Nickrenz, and Skrowaczewski opted to put the chorus in the rears, and what an effect this makes.
	www.ultraaudio.com /music/radical_20031101.htm (1840 words)

	Joanna Nickrenz: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Joanna Nickrenz: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
		Joanna Nickrenz: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
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	music.com /person/joanna_nickrenz/1 (120 words)

	AVguide.com: Film/Music Recommendations: Jazz Capsules
		It’s the last characteristic that’s the most difficult to achieve, and this recording has it in spades.
		Producers Mark J. Aubort and the late Joanna Nickrenz placed cardioid microphones facing away from the stage at the back of Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis.
		For Daphnis and Chloé, the chorus was situated at the rear of the auditorium and the perception of the singers energizing the space of the room from the opposite direction of the instrumentalists is musically effective, and not the least bit artificial or distracting.
	www.avguide.com /film_music/music/musicreviews/tas146/146_classical_caps.jsp (4151 words)

	SHOSTAKOVICH Sym 1&15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the Fifteenth (which has puzzled many, but not Yevgeny Mravinsky or Mariss Jansons) he short-changes the composer's expressive subtext throughout, including a Canio-like commedia dell'arte posture in the first and third movements.
		This is a trivial release, the more so considering how jauntily the same orchestra played No. 1 under Walter Susskind's direction (along with No. 9), which Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz produced so vividly for Vox in a period between the 1977 death of Thomas Schippers and Susskind's three years later (both from cancer).
		That prize is worth finding in one of Vox's CD budget-box remasterings.
	www.classicalcdreview.com /ds115.htm (367 words)

	La Folia -- Why Classical Sound is Better These Days
		And all through this dark period recording engineers like Marc Aubort turned out triumph after triumph, analogue and digital, minimally.
		His partner Joanna Nickrenz’s obituary occupies the last page of the TAS issue in which Harley’s editorial appears, as another, rather more painful irony.
		While I’ve no faith in an afterlife, I can say for a certainty that she dwelt in life on the side of the angels.
	www.lafolia.com /archive/silverton/silverton200205better.html (776 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		It's an aspect of the music especially well realized by these performances, all of which carry the composer's imprimatur (or so we assume--it's his label after all).
		They are, one and all, superb, and the recording, produced by the legendary team of Joanna Nickrenz and Marc Aubort, shares a similarly distinctive pedigree.
		If you like sane, cultured, entertaining chamber music that's approachable but never condescending, this disc will surely please.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=5092 (403 words)

	DVD4Music.com: DVD: All The Works For Orchestra ( 2 Discs )
		The Vox Box has been a long standing part of the TAS super disc list and recognized by audiophiles worldwide as a stellar recording.
		Another great Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz production and recording.
		Superb performances by the Minneapolis Orchestra of: Rapsodie espagnolie, Bolero, La Valse, Ma Mere l'Oye, Daphnis and Chloe (featuring The St. Olaf Choir) and Valses nobles et sentimentales.
	www.dvd4music.com /onlineshop/details/cdad1025-567684-5.html (170 words)

	AVguide.com: Film/Music Recommendations: Classical Capsule Music Reviews
		Eroica Trio: Erika Nickrenz, piano; Adela Peña, violin; Sara Sant'Angelo, cello.
		On the bright side, the credits also list Joanna Nickrenz and Marc Aubort as producer and recording engineer, respectively.
		I've been a fan for ages, as have many audiophiles.
	www.avguide.com /film_music/music/musicreviews/may_classical.jsp (3963 words)

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