Sat 21 Sep
So Much Myself: Piano Portraits
Presented by Brisbane Festival and the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
“Lifschitz was a force of extraordinary density and capacity"
Brisbane Festival regrets to inform you that, due to unforeseen circumstances, the performance of So Much Myself: Piano Portraits, scheduled for Saturday 21 September 2024 at The Conservatorium Theatre, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University has been cancelled.
A musical portrait gallery of female creators spanning a millennium.
Following the success of their internationally acclaimed work Stalin’s Piano, virtuoso pianist Sonya Lifschitz and composer Robert Davidson deliver So Much Myself: Piano Portraits, an audiovisual epic that weaves solo piano, video, archival audio, and narrative in a complex, interconnecting tapestry of stories celebrating discovery. A millennium of female artists, scientists and leaders come to life, their words made musical.
The voices of Patti Smith, Frida Kahlo, Marie Curie, Nina Simone, Clara Schumann’s students, Aunty Delmae Barton, Greta Thunberg, and other adventurers are joined by Sonya’s narrative voice, including a conversation with her Ukrainian grandmother and great aunt about their escape from Kyiv in 1941 as Nazi bombs fell.
So Much Myself: Piano Portraits is an exploration of big themes in history, shining the light on people bringing their fullest selves to the challenges of convention, danger, inertia and prejudice.
Composition and video: Robert Davidson
Concept and script: Sonya Lifschitz & Robert Davidson
Performer: Sonya Lifschitz
Image by Paul McMillan
Production Partners
★★★★ ½ A recital for the modern day...Lifschitz is a theatre actor, an orchestra and a soloist all at the same time.
The Age
★★★★ ½ A captivatingly scrapbooky interplay between piano and the voices of history.
Limelight
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Sonya Lifschitz
Sonya Lifschitz is a pianist working across many contexts, with repertoire spanning from 15th century Faenza.
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