Events
The Prepared Piano of John Cage
8 June 2010 • 10 am • University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria
An interactive lecture-demonstrations by Dr. Tzenka Dianova, Bulgarian-Canadian concert pianist and award-winning author of John Cage’s Prepared Piano: The Nuts and Nuts.
Dr. Dianova will give a brief history of the instrument, after which she will demonstrate the use of different groups of objects necessary to achieve a safe and effective preparation. She will conclude the lecture with a live performance of John Cage’s fascinating work “Music for Marcel Duchamp”.
Tzenka Dianova lives in Victoria, Canada, where she teaches at the University of Victoria. She has introduced Cage’s prepared piano to different-age groups of pianists, composition- and theory-students, as well as non-musicians on three continents.
Fire Wind Water
25 March 2007
Town Hall, Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's "Fire Wind Water" concert programme, featuring John Adams’ "Harmonielehre," Gareth Farr’s "Rangitoto", and Toru Takemitsu’s "From Me Flows What You Call Time." With Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor.
Karlheinz Company: Eve de Castro-Robinson
1 October 2006
School of Music, University of Auckland
The Karlheinz Company celebrates eminent New Zealand composer Eve de Castro-Robinson's 50th birthday. John Rimmer's "Fifty Apples for Eve" for piano, with Uwe Grodd (flute).
NZSSSO Finale Concert
14 July 2006
Auckland Town Hall, Auckland
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's "NZSSSO Finale Concert" featuring Philip Glass's "Mad Rush". Programme also included music by Lissa Meridan, Babadzhanian, Takemitsu, John Williams and Brahms.
