John Pitman

John Pitman Reviews: Jan Lisiecki Return to Mozart 5/21/2026 By John Pitman in ACR Happenings, Interview, Pitman Reviews Listening to pianist Jan Lisiecki talk about Mozart and his piano concertos, it becomes apparent that the 31 year old Canadian artist means what he says. In John Pitman’s latest Arts Blog feature, Lisiecki shares why Mozart is indeed a privilege to play, as well as the reasons for pairing these two seemingly distant (in Mozart’s output) piano concertos on the same album.

John Pitman Reviews: ‘Terra Infirma’ 4/21/2026 By John Pitman in ACR Happenings, Contemporary, Interview, Pitman Reviews John Pitman’s latest conversation is with two artists who knew each other’s work, but who had not worked together, before this project. In this bold new work, with a title taken from a poem by Robert Walters, the harp symbolizes the protagonist Earth, both fragile and powerful. Terra Infirma was directly inspired by the experiences of its creative team.

John Pitman Reviews: Randall Scotting’s ‘Divine Impresario’ 3/4/2026 By John Pitman in ACR Happenings Randall Scotting, who hails from rural Colorado originally, is an internationally known singer of that very specialized and cultivated vocal range known as the countertenor. He’s already well established in the opera world, singing music which was originally written for the superstars of the Baroque, the castrati.