Event overview
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Pianist Kate Ryder discusses and performs new Post-Soviet piano works by Vladimir Tarnopolski, Elena Katz-Chernin, Iraida Yusupova, Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky and Arvo Part.
KATE RYDER’s wide ranging experience as a pianist encompasses solo work and collaborations with leading performers and ensembles in dance, electronics and theatre where she has established herself as a versatile and original performer. She has had many works created especially for her by composers in the UK and abroad.
She has a particular interest in working with extended techniques and unusual keyboard instruments – toy pianos, antique keyboards and prepared piano – incorporating them into her work through commissioning, performing, recording and giving workshops on these unique instruments. Her performances have been described in the press as “virtuosic” and “magical”
Kate is continually exploring new possibilities in sound with other musicians and composers from both Western and Eastern traditions, and is actively developing a unique repertoire. She has co-founded several ensembles combining the prepared piano including Keynote + with harpsichordist Jane Chapman, and is currently researching a project between the UK, Sweden and Vietnam, with Vietnamese Dan Tranh player Thuy Than Nguyen. Her new duo with the veteran jazz pianist Tim Richards recently made their debut in a sell out concert at Kings Place earlier this month.
She has held several prestigious residencies including Visiting Artist at UC Berkeley (with Jane Chapman), Brunel University, University of Bogotà, and Goldsmiths, University of London. She recently took her projects - and instruments - to festivals in Australia, Scandinavia and Russia and has curated events at London’s South Bank Centre for their Massed Piano weekend, and for the Cornelius Cardew Festival. She is currently working as an associate artist with the music department at Kingston University developing projects based on the Prepared Piano.
Free event, all welcome
Image: SophieDiMartino
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 25 Oct 2012 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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