Zubin Kanga: May 25th – 28th, 2019

Zubin Kanga is a pianist, composer, improviser and technologist. Over the last decade he has established his reputation in Europe and Australia as a leading innovator of new approaches to the piano. His work in recent years has focused on new models of interaction between a live musician and new technologies, using film, AI, motion capture, 3D modelling, animation and virtual reality.

Zubin has performed at many international festivals and international venues including the BBC Proms, London Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK) BIFEM, Melbourne Festival, Sydney Festival (Australia), Manifeste Festival (France), Klang Festival (Denmark), Darmstadt, Podium Festival (Germany), Resonator Festival (Sweden), CUBE, Graz (Austria) and Borealis Festival (Norway). He has performed several concerti under the composer’s baton, including with Thomas Adès and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and with Beat Furrer and the London Sinfonietta, and performed duos with Brett Dean, Rolf Hind, Thomas Adés and Jack Liebeck.

Zubin has collaborated with many of the world’s leading composers including Michael Finnissy, George Benjamin, Nicole Lizée, Steve Reich, and Liza Limand premiered more than 100 new works. His collaboration with Alexander Schubert on WIKI-PIANO.NET is being performed in a 25 city international tour and has been covered by the Sunday Times (UK), WDR (Germany National Radio), Limelight Magazine and the Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) and featured on German national television and BBC World Service.

A Masters and PhD graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London, Zubin recently finished as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Nice and IRCAM, Paris and is currently the Leverhulme Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, writing a book on musician-technology interactions.

www.zubinkanga.com

Project:

Zubin Kanga was working with Alwynne Pritchard in the Neither Nor project space on Heart of Glass, a piece for piano and film which will be premiered at the LCMF in December, 2019.

Photo: Raphael Neal