Jennifer Elowsky-Fox

photo: Jamie Stewardson

Berklee professor and pianist Jennifer Elowsky-Fox has performed for many years in Boston, where her exciting performances have brought audiences to their feet. Her playing has been described in print as “buoyant,” “fun,” and “gorgeous in all respects.” A devoted friend to her contemporaries, she has championed composers and engaged fellow musicians with whom she has performed. 

Her work as an educator has led Elowsky-Fox to develop a unique system of piano technique for developing pianistic ease and expression. Her own teachers have included Barbara Dixon, Ben Pasternak, and Seymour Bernstein. She has received degrees in piano performance from Central Michigan University and Boston University.

Elowsky-Fox has recorded previous CDs: Pictures and Images for solo piano features Janáček, Debussy, William Bolcom, and Stephen Halloran; and Fox and Friends with music by Janáček, Halloran, Glinka, and Poulenc. Ron Haroutunian, Heidi Braun-Hill, Jan Halloran, and Barbara LaFitte also appear on the CD. She performs on Larry Bell’s 24 Preludes and Fugues for Piano on Albany Records. A recipient of a Berklee faculty grant, she has recorded Bell’s Piano Sonata no. 5 along with music by Janáček on her fourth recording, ON AN OVERGROWN PATH.

Albums

On an Overgrown Path

Release Date: June 14, 2024
Catalog Number: NV6640
20th Century
21st Century
Solo Instrumental
Piano
ON AN OVERGROWN PATH from pianist Jennifer Elowsky-Fox features music by composers Leoš Janáček and Larry Thomas Bell. Janáček gives the album its title piece, a programmatic work that evokes the composer’s memories from early 20th century Moravia. The piano cycle, performed with masterful sensitivity by Elowsky-Fox, blends the eastern and western cultural influences of the region. Based on hymn tunes included in Bell’s A Hymnbook for Congregational Singing, op. 169, Bell’s Piano Sonata No. 5, A Landscape of Small Ruins, op. 166, was composed in 2020 specifically for Elowsky-Fox. Her performances have been described in print as “buoyant”, “fun” and “gorgeous in all respects,” all sentiments that resonate in this Navona Records release.