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March 2010	What's Next: Zenph Re-Performance, Keyboard Magazine, Jon Regen. "the painstaking work Zenph puts into each Re-Performance has earned respect from critical listeners around the globe." Read the full article
March 4, 2010	Piano that plays the greats, Engineering Capacity. "When I started developing this system it soon became obvious that nobody’s standard solenoids would be good enough." Read the full article
February 27, 2010	Music company's CEO innovating to succeed, by David Ranii, Raleigh News and Observer. "We're at the stage where we've proved that the end result of this technology can be artistically important" Read the full article
February 23, 2010	Zenph Sound Innovations Receives Stellar Accolades from the Industry's Most Respected Reviewers Zenph's Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff described as a "Record To Die For," a "Must Have" and "Recording of the Issue" by leading critics. Read the press release
February 16, 2010	2010 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award Recipients Announced Zenph congratulates Eric Hirsh on this well-deserved award -- Eric is a key member of our founding team. Read the press release
February 9, 2010	"Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff" now available on iTrax, in high-definition surround sound Read the press release
February 2010	Records To Die For: Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff (Zenph Re-performance), by John Atkinson, Stereophile magazine. "the Zenph CD takes your breath away" Read the full article
December 17, 2009	Live From Lincoln Center Presents Joshua Bell with Friends, January 21, 2010. "In a Live From Lincoln Center first, Joshua Bell will perform a duet performance of Grieg's Violin Sonata No. 3, Movement II featuring Sergei Rachmaninoff" Read the press release
December 8, 2009	For The Best Electronic Design Issue, A Musical Diversion , Electronic Design, Joseph Desposito. "Welcome to the annual Best Electronic Design issue, where each of our editors chooses the best OEM products, technologies, and standards of the past year." Read the full article
December 2009	Review: Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff (Zenph Re-performance), by Andrew Quint, The Absolute Sound, issue 198. Music: 10, Sonics: 10 -- "Recording of the Issue". "all devotees of transcendent piano playing need to acquire this disc without delay" Read the full review
November 12, 2009	Zenph Sound Innovations, Inc. Announces $10.7 Million Funding, New CEO and Board Members. Read the press release
November 12, 2009	VC Kip Frey leaves Intersouth for CEO post at music software startup, by Rick Smith, Local Tech Wire. Read the article
September 22, 2009	Zenph Re-performance: Rachmaninov, Gould, Tatum, Classical Archives "...a review of all three recordings, presenting each album in its entirety, along with a brief description of the processes involved." Read the reviews
September 20, 2009	Review: Rachmaninoff play Rachmaninoff, by John Sunier, Audiophile Audition. "This is the third and latest effort in the almost science-fiction Zenph Re-Performance projects... Every note of piano performances is captured in great detail, including volume, phrasing and pedal actions." Read the full review
September 15, 2009	WCPE's Preview! Features Rachmaninoff. Read the press release
September 1, 2009	Zenph Re-Performances of Rachmaninoff Sony Masterworks press release Read the press release
August 24, 2009	Art Tatum to Play the Hollywood Bowl: August 26, 2009. Read the press release
August 8, 2009	Review: Rachmaninoff play Rachmaninoff, by Zachary Lewis, Cleveland.com. "It's an insightful treat. Grade: A" Read the full review
June 2009	Rachmaninoff in Re-performance, Live with Zenph Studios in Raleigh, North Carolina, by Tom Gibbs, Positive Feedback Online, issue 44. Read the article
May 22, 2009	Art Tatum's Historical Recording Garners JJA Jazz Awards Nomination. Piano Starts Here nominated by Jazz Journalists Association. Read the article
January 16, 2009	JazzTimes Critics Picks 2008 Year in Review. Piano Starts Here is picked by five writers and editors. Read the article
December 31, 2008	2008 Village Voice Jazz Poll Winners. Read the article
December 7, 2008	Zenph® Studios Gets Its First GRAMMY® Nods. "Yesterdays" by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band dazzles with Art Tatum as virtual soloist Read the press release Watch the video Hear a clip
December 5, 2008	Tar Heel takeover, by David Menconi, The News & Observer. "technology developed at Raleigh-based Zenph Studios played a part in the [GRAMMY] nominations for best instrumental arrangement and best large jazz ensemble album. " Read the full article
November 2008	Keyboard Online Holiday Gift Guide, review by Andy LaVerne, Keyboard magazine. "Stunning!" Read the full review
September 2008	Review: Art Tatum, Piano Starts Here - A Zenph Re-Performance, by John Swenson, Stereophile magazine. "this is a crucially important release in musical history." Read the full review
August 15, 2008	On Music -- Zenph Studios, by Joe Taylor, SoundStageAV.com. "The two Zenph discs released so far are wonderful sonic experiences" Read the full article
August 2008	Player Piano Man, by Gary Giddins, JazzTimes magazine. "It blew my socks off."
July 28, 2008	Review: Art Tatum, Piano Starts Here - A Zenph Re-Performance, by Mark Keresman, JazzReview.com. "If you buy only one jazz solo piano disc this (or any) year, make it Piano Starts Here." Read the full review
June 23, 2008	Taking The A Train, by Russ Neff, My Favorite Things. Review of the Art Tatum show at the Apollo Theater Read the full show review
June 22, 2008	Live, again, by Craig Jarvis, Raleigh News and Observer. "revolutionary technology" Read the full article
June 18, 2008	New Technology Shakes Up the Jazz World, by Ted Gioia, jazz.com Read the full article
June 17, 2008	Review: Art Tatum, Piano Starts Here - A Zenph Re-Performance, by Tom Gibbs, Positive Feedback Online. "This disc is nothing short of magnificent" Read the full article
June 16, 2008	A New Technology to Bring Old Jazz Recordings Back to Life, by Ted Gioia, jazz.com "Even an old Tatum fan like me, who thought he knew everything that this Shrine concert had to tell me about the pianist, heard things I had never noticed before." Read the full article
June 15, 2008	Review: Art Tatum, Piano Starts Here, by Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News, 4/4 stars. "so help me, this is a case where modern technology can give us what nothing else can — a recording of Tatum himself in performance with state-of-the-art sound instead of the tinny technology of pre-high fidelity recording... Remarkable." Read the full review
June 3, 2008	Review: Art Tatum, Piano Starts Here, by Ken Dryden, All Music Guide. "Listening to the binaural recordings on headphones gives an intimate perspective" Read the full review
June 2, 2008	Review: Art Tatum, Piano Starts Here, by John Sunier, Audiophile Audition. "It’s a really uncanny visceral sense that you are right there" Read the full review
May/June 2008	Review: Art Tatum, Piano Starts Here, by John Aiello, The Electric Review. "As you listen to this magical record that marries a piece of the past to our modern era, you are indeed hearing a transcendental performance" Read the full review
April 18, 2008	Art Tatum Celebrated in "Re-performance" CD, Concert, and Book, by Jeff Tamarkin, JazzTimes. Read the full article
January 2008	Review: The 4th Annual Positive Feedback Online's Writers' Choice Awards - for 2007, by Tom Gibbs. "a triumph on every possible level...They've given those of us who love the original recording something to truly cherish." Read the full article
December 19, 2007	2007 Over Already? We Hardly Knew You!, by The Amazon Music Editorial Team. "for story and sound, my money's on Sony's Zenph Re-Performance of Gould's 1955 show-stopper." Read the full article
December 13-14, 2007	Inside the 100 Foot Piano, An-Ting Chung presents Gould's 1955 Goldberg Variations as a sound sculpture, through 88 speakers Legacy Recording Studios, 509 W. 38th St., New York, New York. Read the press release
October 2007	1955 Glenn Gould Bach: Zenph Re-Performances, by George Graves, The Audiophile Voice, volume 12, issue 4, pages 12-13. "I cannot over-recommend this recording too highly... you are in for a life-altering experience." Read the full article
September 2007	Review: J.S. Bach, Goldberg Variations (Zenph Re-performance), by John Atkinson, Stereophile, page 133. Recording of the Month. "technological tour de force... Well done, Team Zenph." Read the full review
September 25, 2007	Global Hit - Zenph Studios, by Lisa Mullins, BBC's The World. Hear the 8-minute interview
September 22, 2007	Editorial: Play It Again, Art, by Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times. "because of Zenph, we have a lot more useful knowledge about how Art Tatum played the piano -- knowledge that could conceivably lead to a panoply of new creative works." Read the full editorial
August 2007	Review: Bach, Goldberg Variations (Zenph Re-performance), by Andrew Quint, The Absolute Sound, issue 173. Music: 10, Sonics: 10. "this version of Bach's masterpiece will still be the one to beat in another 50 years." The Absolute Sound web site
August 2007	Zenph, Sony Release Classic 'Re-Performance', by Janice Brown, Pro Sound News, page 25.
Summer 2007	Duke alumnus Mikhail Krishtal summons Glenn Gould's ghost, by Elizabeth Thompson, Duke Notes. "With time, every musical discipline will be able to benefit from the new technology – composition, musicology, theory, performance practice." Read the full article
July 21, 2007	Glenn Gould live et meme alive... en concert et vivant, interview by Thierry Steiner, France Inter. Read the full article (in French)
July 15, 2007	Review: Three testaments to technical and technological skill, by David Perkins, The Boston Globe. "We hear Gould's singing line, speed, and accuracy -- his reckless ability to give contrapuntal lines equal weight -- with unprecedented clarity and depth." Read the full article
July 13, 2007	Zenph Studios revolutionizing music production, by Allan Maurer, TechJournal South. "Is it disruptive enough to make a difference to the market? Yes." Read the full article
June 17, 2007	Review: Bach, "Goldberg Variations", by Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News, 4/4 stars. "The result is beyond impressive. It’s stunning, a truly new way to hear one of Glenn Gould’s (or anyone else’s) greatest musical moments in modern sound" Read the full article
June 10, 2007	Review: Gould, Bach get a digital buffing, by David Perkins, Raleigh News and Observer, 4/4 stars. "The results are astonishing... we hear, with unprecedented clarity, Gould's unique combination of singing line, speed and accuracy." Read the full article
June 2007	Great(er) Performances, by Andrew Park, Fast Company, issue 116, page 50. "separating great performances from their recordings opens up a new world of interactivity between music lovers and long-departed artists" Read the full article
May 28, 2007	New Technology Recaptures Pianists of the Past, by Jeffrey Freymann-Weyr, National Public Radio (NPR). Hear and read the 6-minute interview
May 5, 2007	Fugue for Man & Machine, by Jacob Hale Russell and John Jurgenson, The Wall Street Journal, page P1. "In Toronto this fall, an audience filled a concert hall to hear Bach's "Goldberg Variations," performed by Glenn Gould -- who died more than two decades ago." Read the full article
April 25, 2007	Zenph Studios Announces Two New Appointments Bill Berger Joins Management Team; Gilbert Hetherwick to Serve On Board of Directors, press release. Read the full article
April 16, 2007	Review: Glenn Gould Plays Bach: The Goldberg Variations - A Zenph Re-Performance, by Tom Gibbs, Positive Feedback Online. "I've probably listened and re-listened at least a dozen times, and each listen has elicited the very same response: Wow!" Read the full article
April 9, 2007	Review: Bach: Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould, by Christine Tham, SA-CD.net. "let's talk about the recording itself. It is technically flawless and perfect" Read the full article
Spring 2007	Glenn Gould in (Re-)Performance, by Kevin Bazzana, GlennGould Magazine, volume 12, number 1, pages 34-39.
March 17, 2007	Review: Disc of the Month Bach: The Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould's 1955 performance re-created by Zenph - Sony Classical, by John Sunier, Audiophile Audition. "Climb inside Glenn Gould's head at the keyboard by simply plugging in your headphones on tracks 33-64" Read the full article
March 12, 2007	Resurrection of The Masters - Audio Restoration Beyond Dreams, by Florin Tibu, Softpedia. "developed with one fantastic goal in mind: having the piano masters' recorded works playable again, as if they came back to life." Read the full article
March 10, 2007	Ghostly Grand Piano: Technical Marvel Plays Like an Old Pro, by Tim Page, Washington Post, page C01. "Pianist Glenn Gould played Bach's "Goldberg" Variations in a 67th-floor condominium apartment here on Thursday afternoon." Read the full article
March 1, 2007	Sony BMG Masterworks and Zenph Studios release Glenn Gould's Bach Goldberg Variations (1955). Download the new album cover Read the full article
February 8, 2007	Parkinson's fails to quash dream, by Karen Smith Welch, Amarillo Globe News. "a 2006 visit to a doctor proved serendipitous. An article in a technical journal he flipped through while waiting described the work of Zenph Studios" Read the full article
December 14, 2006	A mechanized piano re-creates a master performance, by Gregory M. Lamb, Christian Science Monitor, page 17. "likens it to the difference between HDTV and regular TV"
December 10, 2006	Best Ideas of 2006, New York Times, Sunday magazine section, by Evan Hughes, page 64. “Perhaps the most important thing that technology does is free the listener to participate in ways that in all previous periods of listening were governed by the performer.” Read the full article
December 2006	Industry Update lead article, by Robert Deutsch, Stereophile magazine, pages 15-17. "Listening to snatches of conversation at the reception that followed, I got the sense that people felt they had witnessed a momentous event."
October 3, 2006	Yamaha Disklavier Pro and Zenph Restore Gould’s 1955 Goldberg Variations, Pro Sound News. "The result isn't a re-mastering or a reconstruction; it's the exact same performance, heard with a clarity and vibrancy that was once thought to be lost forever." Read the full article
September 26, 2006	Gould still playing ’live’, by John Terauds, Toronto Star. "Was the recreation better than the original? Yes. Does it bode well for remastering the classics of yesteryear? Absolutely." Read the full article
September 26, 2006	Software, robotic piano replicate Gould’s Goldberg Variations, CBC Arts. "I was totally wowed," a woman in the audience told CBC News. "The only thing missing was a hologram of Gould actually playing." Read the full article
September 25, 2006	Unveiling a virtual Variations, by Colin Eatock, Toronto Globe and Mail. Read the full article
September 16, 2006	Company’s software replicates piano recordings, by Anne Krishnan, Raleigh News & Observer. Read the full article
August 1, 2006	Encore from the grave – greatest pianists play ‘live’, by Dalya Alberge, The Times of London Read the full article View leader (in the Editorial section)
July 23, 2006	That’s the idea, Zenph Studios presents at ideaCity06 in Toronto, Raleigh News & Observer. Read the full article
April 2006	Instrumental Innovations, by Russell Carlson, JazzTimes, page 66.
March 2006	What Next? Zenph Studios, by Andy LaVerne, Keyboard Magazine. Read the full article
February 19, 2006	Case for ghostbusters? by Enrique Fernandez, Miami Herald Read the full article
January 12, 2006	The State of Things, North Carolina Public Radio, Eric Hodge Hear the broadcast
December 1, 2005	The Masters Come Alive, by Paul D. Lehrman, MIX Read the full article
December 2005	All About the Music, Performing Songwriter, page 65. Read the full article
November/December 2005	Cutting the Mustard, by Barrie Staines, Piano magazine, page 31.
November 2005	A Pure Sweet Sound Rings Again, by Josie Glausiusz, Discover Magazine, page 78. Read the full article
October 2005	Clean Up Time, by Craig Anderton. Harmony-Central AES Technology Update, Part 3. Read the full article
Fall 2005	Disklavier Pro – A True Revolution, Yamaha Accent magazine, page 22. Read the full article
October 2005	Zenph Technology Reproduces Piano Performances, by Charles Fuller, Downbeat magazine, page 169.
September 2005	Industry Event: Yamaha, Zenph Host a ‘Masters Concert,’ by David Weiss, MIX, page 16.
September 2005	Piano Resurrection, old piano recordings get new life, by Scott Wilkinson, Electronic Musician, page 32. Read the full article
August 2005	The Newest Way to Reproduce, Music Inc., page 33.
August 12, 2005	Device gives old recordings 21st century quality, by Mark Krzos, Fort Myers New-Press. Read the full article
July 19, 2005	Digital process doubles pleasure of old recordings, Nate Guidry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Read the full article
June 27, 2005	Bringing Old Performances Back to Life, Fred Fishkin, Bloomberg Radio Bootcamp. Hear the broadcast
June 17, 2005	Back to Life, with Brett Larson, CBS 2 TV News This Morning, New York.
June 16, 2005	Player piano’s software distills the magic from old recordings, by Martha McKay, Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. Read the full article
June 5, 2005	Play it again, Vladimir (via Computer), by Anne Midgette, The New York Times. Read the full article
May 20, 2005	Mei-Ting Sun, Cortot, Gould, Tatum Perform Live in Raleigh, by Frank D. Pittman, Classical Voice of North Carolina. Read the full article
May 4, 2005	History-Making New Process Captures Piano Recordings For High-Quality ’Re-Performance’, Zenph Studios press release. Read the full article
May 4, 2005	Software ‘cleans’ piano masters, by Steve Bush, Electronics Weekly. Read the full article
May 2, 2005	Dead Virtuosos Virtually Live, by Guy Gugliotta, The Washington Post.
April 22, 2005	Ivory encore for dead piano greats, by Mick Hamer, New Scientist. Read the full article
April 21, 2005	’Ghost Concert’ to Reproduce, Live, Old Recordings by Cortot and Gould on Modern Player Piano, Agence France-Presse. Read the full article
April 2005	A Pragmatic Project: Live in Concert, by Andy Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmers LLC. Read the full article
March 23, 2005	Re-creating the masters, by Jonathan B. Cox, Raleigh News & Observer. Read the full article

 

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