“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 across the globe – as soloist in concerti from J.S. Bach to Sofia Gubaidulina, as recitalist and chamber musician in imaginative programs that interweave old and new music, and as speaker and actor in interdisciplinary performance projects. In recent seasons, Aura has been soloist with the Melbourne, Adelaide and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, Tapiola Sinfonietta, the 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.

With pianist Tomoe Kawabata, Aura formed the KIAZMA Piano Duo, now established as one of Australia's most dynamic ensembles. She also enjoys a musical partnership with Timo-Veikko 'Tipi' Valve (Principal Cello, Australian Chamber Orchestra), with whom she recorded the complete Beethoven cello sonatas and Webern works for cello for ABC Classics. A passionate advocate for new and underrepresented repertoire, Aura's discography includes first recordings of works by Lisa Illean (with Emma McGrath, Tilman Robinson and ANAM Strings), Japanese works for piano duo (with KIAZMA), and duets of Ekaterina Komalkova (with Ian Munro). In 2023 Aura toured nationally in a critically acclaimed performance as pianist-actor in the stage adaptation of Paul Kildea's Chopin's Piano.

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. Her PhD explored the intersections of acting and music performance, focusing on developing musicians’ embodied imagination as a foundation for sincere, creative and compelling performances.

A passionate educator, Aura has taught piano at Yale College (USA) and the Sibelius Academy (Finland), and has been invited as a visiting artist to 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, USA), and the Australian National Academy of Music. She is now Head of Piano at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at Monash University, where she leads a vibrant program that nurtures creativity, collaboration and artistic curiosity.