As the Sydney International Piano Competition celebrates it 40th anniversary, Andrey Gugnin, the winner of the 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition is two weeks into his national recital tour. Gugnin’s single performance in Sydney features music by Bach, Schubert and Stravinsky along with new works Reminiscences of the Theatre (1985) by contemporary Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov and Kieran Harvey’s 48 Fugues…
Trinity Grammar School’s Society of the Arts is thrilled to present a solo recital by pianist Michael Kieran Harvey, arguably one of Australia’s greatest pianists. A champion of Australian music and himself a composer, Michael Kieran Harvey regularly commissions new Australian music and has performed with Australia’s leading contemporary music ensembles and orchestras. Born in…
Synaesthesia is a feature of the human nervous system that causes a blending of the senses where one sense can be experienced as another. Colours can be experienced as letters and numbers, hearing music can trigger smells or tastes, touch can stimulate vision. Only 1 in 2000 people experience the phenomenon of ‘synaesthesia’….