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The flow I experience, when I'm following or allowing my natural impulse to guide the music, is really a kind of meta-flow. A state where I don't have to think about what to play, but rather I know what note, what gesture, what shape or rhythm comes next, and it's almost as if it happens without my
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1801:"Expect Originality In Earshot Jazz Performance By Pianist Myra Melford"
1936:"Myra Melford's Language Of Dreams At Yerba Buena Center For The Arts"
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2180:"The Same River, Twice: Myra Melford's The Same River, Twice"
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2015:"Myra Melford Wins Fulbright To Study Harmonium In India"
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was released on Gramavision in 1996, followed by 1999's
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Charitable Foundation's Performing Artist Award (2013)
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2614:"Myra Melford's Snowy Egret: The Other Side of Air"
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2418:"Satoko Fujii & Myra Melford: Under the Water"
2206:"Above Blue: Myra Melford's The Same River, Twice"
1968:. University of California, Berkeley. 3 March 2014
1639:. New York Foundation for the Arts. 14 August 2013
2074:"Alive in the House of Saints: Myra Melford Trio"
872:(drums); Melford plays harmonium on three tracks
428:on electric bass. Arabesque released the trio's
2312:"Myra Melford-Be Bread: The Image of Your Body"
1538:"Myra Melford 2013 US & Canada Competition"
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2232:"Dance Beyond the Color: Myra Melford's Crush"
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2128:"Various Artists: The October Revolution"
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2470:"Life Carries Me This Way: Myra Melford"
571:Composition Fellowship (1998,2002, 2008)
530:Selected honors, fellowships, and awards
2522:"Myra Melford + Ben Goldberg: Dialogue"
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1686:"Myra Melford Remembers Cecil Taylor"
1600:"Myra Melford: Mystic Manifestations"
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2962:21st-century American women pianists
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2520:Turner, Mark F. (January 20, 2016).
2366:"Spark!: Marty Ehrlich/Myra Melford"
1876:"Meet the 2012 Alpert Award Winners"
1852:Hamad, Michael (November 14, 2014).
1799:De Barros, Paul (October 21, 1999).
894:(alto sax, bass clarinet, clarinet)
460:poem), was recorded in 2003, as was
1962:"Myra Melford: Department of Music"
1710:Gilbert, Andrew (October 6, 2013).
2586:Kassel, Matthew (April 25, 2019).
2310:Shanley, Mike (December 1, 2006).
1658:Carter, Kevin L. (June 18, 1999).
1633:"Meet a NYFA Artist: Myra Melford"
1504:Rubien, David (January 27, 2008).
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2612:de Barros, Paul (December 2018).
1911:. Duke Foundation. Archived from
1598:Matzner, Franz (August 3, 2004).
469:University of California Berkeley
2443:"2014 Art Music Awards: Winners"
1684:Melford, Myra (March 28, 2019).
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553:Pianist of the Year (2008, 2009)
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39:in 1993. Photo by Michael Wilson
2639:"Tiger Trio: Map of Liberation"
2416:D'Souza, Jerry (May 12, 2009).
2013:Margolis, Bob (June 22, 2000).
516:Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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2588:"Myra Melford: Both Sides Now"
2390:Kopman, Budd (June 18, 2007).
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2282:Kelman, John (May 19, 2004).
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2832:Alive in the House of Saints
1987:Boehm, Mike (May 10, 2012).
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1466:Otis Was A Polar Bear (2016)
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535:Guggenheim Fellowship (2013)
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2496:"Snowy Egret: Myra Melford"
1131:Everything Here Is Possible
559:Composer of the Year (2004)
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2937:Palmetto Records artists
2690:"Hear The Light Singing"
1827:"Myra Melford Biography"
1570:Gilbert, Andrew (2011).
1444:Allison Miller (drummer)
1151:Life Carries Me This Way
1114:Trio, as "Trio M", with
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197:, a classically trained
185:Early life and education
2562:"Tiger Trio: Unleashed"
2447:Australian Music Centre
1882:. Cal Arts. 16 May 2012
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375:self-titled debut album
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178:San Francisco Chronicle
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1379:Hear the Light Singing
957:The Image of Your Body
855:Dance Beyond the Color
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2864:Even the Sounds Shine
2789:The Same River, Twice
2340:"Big Picture: Trio M"
2021:. MTV. Archived from
1770:"Myra Melford at MTV"
1287:The Other Side of Air
1026:(alto sax, clarinet)
784:The Same River, Twice
748:Even the Sounds Shine
575:Chamber Music America
230:environmental science
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1780:on November 20, 2014
1742:herbalpertawards.com
1738:"About Myra Melford"
1451:Boom Tic Boom (2010)
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291:Amina Claudine Myers
220:Melford enrolled at
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1471:Glitter Wolf (2019)
1336:(bass); in concert
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239:Air Above Mountains
226:Olympia, Washington
2364:Widran, Jonathan.
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1856:. Hartford Courant
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520:Language of Dreams
191:Frank Lloyd Wright
90:Musician, composer
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2052:Chamber-music.org
2045:"Myra Medford BE"
1993:Los Angeles Times
1572:"A Woman in Full"
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