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Difference ignites creativity in Musica Viva Australia's 2024 Concert Season. Listen to new voices as Artistic Director Paul Kildea puts outstanding artists, diverse genres and multifaceted music in counterpoint. Subscribe today https://www.musicaviva.com.au/
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‘A peerless performer, with so much to express’<br />
Guardian<br />
‘Uncanny delicacy in one episode and<br />
gnashing power the next’<br />
The New York Times<br />
Kirill Gerstein<br />
Kirill Gerstein is a showman, a philosopher, and a poet of the<br />
piano. He grew up playing jazz, switched to classical and won<br />
the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition<br />
at just 22. Since then he has carved out a formidable<br />
reputation as a fearless artist who makes the impossible<br />
sound easy.<br />
For this seven-city solo recital tour he is scaling new heights<br />
of virtuosity: Liszt’s powerhouse Polonaise in E, Schumann’s<br />
Viennese romp, Carnival of Vienna, and the wildly difficult,<br />
wildly entertaining transcriptions of eccentric piano nerd,<br />
Leopold Godowsky. In the same program, he dives deep into<br />
the profundity of Chopin’s Polonaise-Fantaisie, and gives the<br />
world premiere of Transcendental Etude, a new commission<br />
from <strong>Australia</strong>n Liza Lim.<br />
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