“Go commanded a mood at once vast and intimate with deft control and sensitivity” – Limelight Magazine

“Edge-of-the-seat creativity … heartbreaking focus” – Sydney Arts Guide

“Go’s playing is unremittingly warm-hearted and insightful” – Adelaide Advertiser

“Stunning… a fearless performance” – New York Times

“A dazzling ability to elicit the multilayered textures” – Rondo Classic

Australian pianist Aura Go is a performer, curator and educator. She performs internationally as concerto soloist in repertoire from J.S. Bach to Sofia Gubaidulina, as recitalist and chamber musician in imaginative programs that interweave old and new music, and as narrator and actor in cross-artform and educational projects.

In recent seasons Aura has performed as soloist with the Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria. Festival appearances have included the Edinburgh Festival, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, PianoEspoo, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Australian Festival of Chamber Music and the Musica Viva Festival. In 2023 Aura toured nationally for Musica Viva in a critically acclaimed performance as pianist-actor in the stage adaptation of Paul Kildea's Chopin's Piano. Current season highlights include solo engagements with the Melbourne, Queensland and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, a national tour for Musica Viva with violinist Kristian Winther and cellist Timo-Veikko Valve, and recital collaborations with cellists Ivan Karizna and Li-Wei Qin, flautist Joshua Batty and soprano Sara Macliver.

Aura enjoys musical partnerships with pianist Tomoe Kawabata as the KIAZMA Piano Duo, and with Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve (Principal Cellist, Australian Chamber Orchestra), with whom she recorded the complete Beethoven cello sonatas and works by Webern for ABC Classics. A committed advocate for new and underrepresented repertoire, Aura's discography also includes first recordings of works by Lisa Illean (NMC Records), Miriama Young (ABC Classic), Japanese works for piano duo (KIAZMA), and four-hand music by Ekaterina Komalkova (Tall Poppies).

Aura is Head of Piano at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University, where she leads a vibrant program that nurtures creativity, collaboration and artistic curiosity. She has previously taught at Yale College and the Sibelius Academy, and has been visiting artist at institutions including the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus (Denmark), the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (Poland), Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences (University of Arkansas) and the Australian National Academy of Music.

Born in Melbourne, Aura studied at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Australian National Academy of Music before completing her Master of Music at the Yale School of Music. She then spent seven years in Helsinki, combining an active performing career with doctoral research at the Sibelius Academy. In 2018-19 Aura was a Musica Viva FutureMaker artist. Her artistic research explores the intersections of acting and music performance, focusing on developing musicians’ embodied imagination as a foundation for creative and compelling performances.