SELECTED PAST PROGRAMS

NIGHT WALK (curated for KIAZMA Piano Duo + )
Benjamin Britten Night Piece Ian Munro Sonata for two Pianos (based on poems by Judith Wright) *world premiere Peter Sculthorpe Night Pieces Akira Nishimura Mirror of Stars Kaija Saariaho Prelude Matthew Whittall On the Beach at Night, Twilight, A Clear Midnight (from ‘Leaves of Grass’ Preludes)

Presented at the David Li Sound Gallery, October 2023

SOUL BIRD
Thomas Adès Still Sorrowing Jean-Philippe Rameau Prelude in A minor | Le Rappel des Oiseaux Olli Mustonen Sielulintu (Soul Bird) Olivier Messiaen La Colombe Maurice Ravel Oiseaux tristes Olivier Messiaen Le Courlis Cendre Miriama Young Grey Ghost Robert Schumann Vogel als Prophet Kate Moore Spin Bird Rameau trans. Ignaz Friedmann Le Rappel des Oiseaux Thomas Adès Still Sorrowing

Presented at the David Li Sound Gallery, June 2022

DARKNESS VISIBLE
ADÈS Darkness Visible, after Dowland
BEETHOVEN Sonata in D minor Op. 32 No. 2 ‘Tempest’
LIM Summer (Sema) from the Four Seasons after Cy Twombly
DEBUSSY L’isle Joyeuse

Presented at Music in the Round, September 2018

IN THE CHANGING LIGHT: COLOUR POEMS FOR PIANO
RAUTAVAARA Pelimannit (The Fiddlers)
RAUTAVAARA Music for Upright Piano I
MERIKANTO Kuutamo (Moonlight) from Six Pieces Op. 20
RAITIO Neljä värirunoelmaa pianolle, Op. 22 (Four colour poems for piano)
LIM Summer (Sema) from the Four Seasons after Cy Twombly
RAVEL Miroirs

Presented at the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room, October 2018

DICHOTOMIE
SALONEN Dichotomie, i. Mecanisme
SITSKY Chant of Gatha Ushtavaiti (from Dimensions of Night)
COWELL The Banshee
CRUMB A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979
RAUTAVAARA Icons
SALONEN Dichotomie, ii. Organisme

Presented at the Maj Lind Piano Forum (Helsinki) and the Metropolis New Music Festival (Melbourne) in April & May 2014.

THE INFINITE
RAUTAVAARA: Piano Sonata No. 1 "Christ and the Fisherman"
BEETHOVEN Six Bagatelles Op. 126
RAUTAVAARA Piano Sonata No. 2 "The Fire Sermon" 
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RAUTAVAARA Fuoco
BEETHOVEN Sonata in c-minor Op. 111

Presented at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus (Denmark) and the Helsinki Music Center (Finland) in May, 2013.

SIBELIUS & SCHUBERT
SIBELIUS Ten Pieces Op. 54
SIBELIUS Kyllikki, Three Lyrical Pieces Op. 41
SCHUBERT Sonata in A major D.959

Presented at Vuotalo (Finland) and Melbourne Recital Centre (Australia) in June & July 2015.

IN THE CHANGING LIGHT: COLOUR POEMS FOR PIANO
RAUTAVAARA Pelimannit (The Fiddlers)
RAUTAVAARA Music for Upright Piano I
MYLLÄRINEN Risonanza IV *first performance
RAITIO Neljä värirunoelmaa pianolle, Op. 22 (Four colour poems for piano)
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LISZT Nuages gris
LISZT Bagatelle sans tonalite
RAVEL Miroirs

Presented at the Helsinki Music Centre, May 2017.

RAUTAVAARA'S WORLD: FOUR GENERATIONS OF FINNISH MASTERS
RAUTAVAARA Etudes
SIBELIUS Selections from Ten Pieces Op. 54
LINDBERG Jubilees
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A. MERIKANTO Three pieces from Six Pieces Op. 20 (Melodie, Pan, Kuutamo)
RAUTAVAARA Seven preludes
SALONEN Dichotomie

Presented at the Helsinki Music Centre, October 2014.

AT HOME WITH MOZART
MOZART Sonata in B flat K.281
MOZART Six Variations in F major on ”Salve tu, domine” by Giovanni Paisiello
CHOPIN Nocturne in B major Op. 62 No. 1
CHOPIN Mazurka in C major Op. 24 No. 2
MOZART Fantasie & Sonata in c-minor K.475/457

Presented in a series of five concerts at Käskenmäen kotikonsertit, Turku, in January 2016.