Musica Viva Australia Season Brochure | 2024

‘Pekka Kuusisto . . . surely has the most
personal sound of any classical violinist
now alive.’
The Telegraph
‘Kahane’s work . . . is, first and foremost, an
exercise in lyric beauty. He sings in a warm,
resonant, melancholic baritone, which coasts
upward into a plaintive falsetto. He plays the
piano with a poetic touch . . . and his music
is suffused with idiosyncratic, enriched tonal
harmony . . . he is one of the finest, most
searching songwriters of the day.’
The New Yorker
Pekka Kuusisto &
Gabriel Kahane
Pekka Kuusisto is an acclaimed violinist. Gabriel Kahane is a
composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist. Both classically
trained, both comfortable inside and outside the box, they
wander those sometimes strange, sometimes quirky, but
always beautiful borderlands where creativity thrives.
They come together in a new collaboration, commissioned for
recording and performance by an international partnership
including Musica Viva Australia. The relaxed, intimate evening
is an exploration of what it means to be artists in the 21st
century; artists for whom honouring a classical heritage is as
important as chasing the new. Be fascinated, entertained,
moved and changed by what they make.
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