Event
City of Snakes
- Date: Friday, 20 May 2016, 6pm
- Venue: Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon — Cnr Southbank Blvd & Sturt St, Southbank, VIC
- Series: This event is part of the Metropolis New Music Festival 2016 series
- Tickets: Standard: $39 | Concession: $29
Event Details
An urban keyboard extravaganza, featuring original multi-keyboard works by Michael Kieran Harvey
The concept of the city is explored as dystopia and as creative wellspring through music conceived through the keyboard, an instrument that reflects and encapsulates the digital age as no other.
Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre.
Program
Michael Kieran Harvey
Piano Sonata #3 (2016)
City of Snakes
From The Walls of Dis (after Robert Smithson)*
Deaths Head Mandala
N Chromium
#6, from 48 Fugues For Frank (Zappa) – ‘G-spot tornado’
#6, from The Green Brain – ‘Beetles’
Budapest Sunrise (after Saxby Pridmore)*
Kazohinia (after Sándor Szathmári)
* World premiere
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9699 3333
Featured Australian Works
| 48 Fugues for Frank #6 : G-Spot tornado : A homage to Zappa in 10 movements for solo piano (2009) by Michael Kieran Harvey — performed by Michael Kieran Harvey |
| City of snakes : for B flat clarinet, piano, bass, and drums (2013) by Michael Kieran Harvey — performed by Michael Kieran Harvey |
| Piano sonata no. 3 : "Aporia" (solo piano) (2016) by Michael Kieran Harvey — World premiere — performed by Michael Kieran Harvey |
The Green Brain : 20 movements named after insect species (2017) ['Beetles'] by Michael Kieran Harvey — performed by Michael Kieran Harvey |
Featured artists
- New work by Michael Kieran Harvey
- Music of Michael Kieran Harvey
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