Night Walk: Piano Concert

The KIAZMA Piano Duo in collaboration with pianists from the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance present Night Walk. Created especially for the David Li Sound Gallery, Night Walk is a musical meditation on our connection with nature, on love and loss, the movement of ideas, on metaphor and metamorphosis. Pianists Aura Go and Tomoe Kawabata interweave music for one and two pianos by composers for whom nature has been a powerful creative force. Evocative night-filled poetry of Judith Wright, Walt Whitman and Amin Malouf gives rise to musical responses by Ian Munro, Matthew Whittall and Kaija Saariaho; Benjamin Britten’s daily “thinking walks” were central to his compositional process; Peter Sculthorpe and Akira Nishimura draw on Japanese concepts of metamorphosis in their sonic explorations of stillness and space. The program features the world premiere of Letter to a Friend for two pianos by Ian Munro.

Described as ‘masterful’, ‘positively ecstatic’ and ‘profoundly moving, subtle and exuberant’, the KIAZMA Piano Duo has established itself as one of Australia’s most dynamic ensembles. Equally at home in solo, two-piano and four-hand repertoire from the baroque to the present day, KIAZMA is passionate about sharing the riches of the existing repertoire, developing the art form through the KIAZMA commissioning project, and creating concert experiences that explore new ways of listening to and engaging with music. The newly established KIAZMA Mentoring Program offers young pianists opportunities to engage in side-by-side professional development in rehearsal, creative development, curation and performance.

Aura Go
Tomoe Kawabata
Students from the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance

Featuring music by Benjamin Britten, Ian Munro, Akira Nishimura, Kaija Saariaho, Peter Sculthorpe, Matthew Whittall

This recital is part of the 2023 Vibrating Air chamber music series, showcasing exceptional artists in the intimate and acoustically superb David Li Sound Gallery.