Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

Maverick pianist Danaë Killian will show the world her cracked and shining heart in a thrilling solo recital, inspired by German Expressionist poet Else Lasker-Schüler’s provocative work Mein Herz: Ein Liebesroman mit Bildern und wirklich lebenden Menschen (1912). My Heart is a musical journey into the scintillating, but ultimately doomed artistic counterculture of pre-World War One Berlin, so powerfully evoked in Lasker-Schüler’s novel. Featuring music by Danaë’s beloved local composer friends, by Danaë herself, and by Arnold Schoenberg, Lasker-Schüler’s contemporary (who once gave the poet money in a time of need) My Heart is imbued with themes of night-wandering, soul-homelessness and deep yearning. Lasker-Schüler’s Berlin of 1911 bleeds through Danaë Killian’s My Heart into our Naarm-Melbourne, and in so doing invokes themes of night-wandering, soul-homelessness, and starry yearning. A portion of the proceeds from this performance will go towards the creation of an album of My Heart.

Performer:
Danaë Killian, piano

Featured non-Australian music: Two Minds: Four Pieces for Solo Piano, Op. 73 (2004) – Gregers Brinch

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by email to info@forestcollective.com.au

Featured artists

• Presented by Forest Collective
• Music of Howard Dillon
• Music of Christine McCombe
• Music of Danae Killian
• Music of Amelia Barden
• Music of Colin McKellar
• Music of Evan Lawson