Freesound and Arraymusic co-present: Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, piano

“Piano virtuoso and avant-garde muse” Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa in recital, celebrating the release of her first full length solo album in 15 years, Known and Unknown: Solo piano works by Rodney Sharman. The concert features pieces by Sharman in context with compositional colleagues Cris Derksen, Linda Catlin Smith and Jocelyn Morlock. Known and Unknown is scheduled for release on Redshift Records March 22.

Concert Programme

The Garden (2001) music theatre for solo pianist | text: Peter Eliot Weiss Rodney Sharman

The View from Here (1992) Linda Catlin Smith

Opera Transcriptions: Book 2 Rodney Sharman

Carmen (1993)
Les Pêcheurs de perles (1995)
La Jolie fille de Perth (2002)

The Jack Pine (2010) Jocelyn Morlock
Phobos and Deimos, circling (2008) Jocelyn Morlock

Little Venice (2003) Rodney Sharman
Watchful (2005)
Notes on “Beautiful” (2010)

Intermission

Opera Transcriptions: Book 3 Rodney Sharman

L’Incoronazione di Poppea - Mercurio dal ciel in terra (2008)
Tristan und Isolde (2013)
Wounded (2014 revised 2020) music theatre for solo pianist | text: Rodney Sharman

the bells (2022) Cris Derksen

Known and Unknown (2021) Rodney Sharman