Featuring the piano music of Zosha Di Castri, Matthew Ricketts, Kotoka Suzuki, Kaija Sariaaho and Adam Sherkin. Japanese-Canadian Kotoko Suzuki's "Hidden Voices" is a richly hued, neo-impressionistic work that explores shadowy counterpoint and integrated reosnances while Rickett's balladic "Melodia" for solo piano embraces a "narrante" sound-profile. Vibrant, intrepid Canadian-Italian composer, Zosha Di Castri, found a distinction and purpose at the keybaord early on in her output: Adam Sherkin performs her newest work, "The Untellable Hour of Quiet," recently commissioned by Clare Longendyke, and inspired by Maurice Ravel's Oiseaux tristes. "The Thinking Eye" of 2006 is played alongside and has been conceived around the following quote from Paul Klee: “One day I must be able to improvise freely on the keyboard of colours: the row of watercolours in my paintbox.”  Finnish composer Saariaho was a friend and mentor of Zosha Di Castri. She also worked with pianist/composer Adam Sherkin in Toronto; the "Ballade" for piano is included on this program.

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