Chopin's Piano with Aura Go

A message from Artistic Director Paul Kildea:

In April last year I met up with my old friend, the actor and director Richard Pyros. I was completely reprogramming Musica Viva’s 2021 season and had a proposition for him: let’s create a first-person present-tense theatre/music piece out of a book I had written a few years earlier. Our tour of Chopin’s Piano, bringing together the outstanding talents of pianist Aura Go and actor Susan Prior – alongside a handful of creatives – was the outcome, a narrative and musical tale about the piano on which Chopin wrote a number of major works, the Preludes among them.

It’s with a heavy heart that we will shift this tour from November 2021 to a future season instead. We are however excited to announce our plans to make a beautiful film of a most intriguing and captivating story, punctuated by Aura’s reading of Chopin’s twenty-four Preludes.

Online Concert

This December, follow the story of Chopin’s renowned instrument in the world premiere performance of Chopin’s Piano, broadcast to your living room from centre stage at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

Join us on the 16th of December to watch the premiere online. You can find out more about the filmed concert and purchase tickets here. 

Rescheduled Concerts

We are also delighted to announce that we have retained some of the concert dates with alternative performers and repertoire in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Newcastle.