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October 15, 2025

🎢✨ 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 β€” 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 β€” and has since grown into a global tapestry of music, poetry, improvisation, orchestral performance, and film.

In our conversation, Stefania opens up about:

  • βœ… The surprising origins of MICROVIDS and how β€œtiny nothings” became her richest work
  • βœ… Collaborations with pianist Donna Weng Friedman, violinist Curtis Stewart, narrator Krystal Joy Brown, and the New Jersey Youth Symphony under Helen Cha-Pyo
  • βœ… Award-winning films inspired by MICROVIDS, including Silent Cry
  • βœ… How MICROVIDS can connect with youth orchestras and piano students around the world
  • βœ… Her advocacy for women in music, her Hungarian roots, and her expansive multi-genre style β€” from opera to dance to provocative video works like Menstrual Rosary

πŸ‘‰ Stay tuned until the end for rapid-fire fun, candid reflections, and exclusive performance excerpts from MICROVIDS, Unorthodox, and Menstrual Rosary.

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[The Piano Pod]