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
1 / April / 2023
PAS-À-PAS; NOT INTENT ON ARRIVING
SUM gallery / Vancouver
A multidisciplinary meditation on mourning & memory by artist SD Holman, derived from Holman’s walk across Canada following the death of their wife, Catherine White Holman. Using Bach’s Goldberg Variations as an organizing principle, Holman collaborates with pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, who performs at the opening and periodically during the exhibition run.