Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

“Nights I wander the world’s city streets, looking for you and talking to you, my heart.” Pianist Danaë Killian will show the world her cracked and shining heart next Michaelmas Night, in a solo performance inspired by German Expressionist poet Else Lasker-Schüler’s novel-in-letters Mein Herz. Rich in Australian and world premieres, My Heart is made of music by Danaë's beloved composer friends, by herself, and by Lasker-Schüler’s contemporary Arnold Schoenberg, who once gave the poet money in a time of need. Lasker-Schüler’s Berlin of 1911 bleeds through My Heart into our Melbourne, and in so doing invokes themes of night-wandering, soul-homelessness, and starry yearning.

Program

Arnold Schoenberg – Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11 (1909)
Howard Dillon – Mobius for solo piano (2012)
Christine McCombe – Asphyxed (1991)
Danaë Killian – My Prussian Blue Heart for pianist, tarot cards, and piano (2017)*
Amelia Barden – The Seventh Centre (1992)
Colin McKellar – Birth Music (2006)*
Gregers Brinch – Two Minds: Four Pieces for Solo Piano, Op. 73 (2004)**
Evan Lawson – Sikkinis No. 3 (2015)*

*World Premiere **Australian Premiere

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9660 9666 or by email to danaekillian@gmail.com

Featured Australian Works

Featured artists

• New work by Colin McKellar
• Music of Howard Dillon
• New work by Danae Killian
• New work by Evan Lawson
• Music of Amelia Barden

Featured non-Australian music

Arnold Schoenberg – Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11; Gregers Brinch – Two Minds: Four Pieces for Solo Piano, Op. 73