Biography
Hailed in the press as a "keyboard virtuoso and avant-garde muse" (Georgia Straight) with the “emotional intensity” to take a piece “from notes on a page to a stunning work of art” (Victoria Times Colonist), Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa is recognized among Canada’s foremost contemporary music pianists. Selected to close the ISCM World New Music Days 2017 in Vancouver, Rachel has performed in the Netherlands, Germany, US and across Canada, with engagements including Muziekweek Gaudeamus, Music TORONTO, Music on Main, Vancouver…
Cosmophony
Twelve composers share their inner reflections on outer space in Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa's debut solo album. Featuring George Crumb's Makrokosmos, Volume II, and sonic journey through our solar system and beyond with works by Denie Gougeon, Rodney Sharman, Marci Rabe, Alexander Pechenyuk, Jocelyn Morlock, Jordan Nobles, Christopher Kovarik, Jeffrey Ryan, Stefan Udell, Jennifer Butler and Emily Doolittle.
Brilliant... Unforgettable... A fascinating adventure about unimaginable largeness and gravity, unknowable states, an invitation to wonder. —Lloyd Dykk, Vancouver Sun