The ANU School of Music will host four exciting evening concerts featuring renowned local and international pianists from Monday 8 August to Thursday 11 August. We hope you can join us for a celebration of keyboard instruments and piano music!

On Monday 8 August at 7pm, the Herscovitch Piano Duo (Sydney) will perform works for two pianos by Australian composers Roger Smalley and Kate Moore, as well as Igor Stravinsky and Benjamin Britten.

On Tuesday 9 August at 7pm, the Neeman Piano Duo will present a program featuring original arrangements for piano duet by American composers William Bolcom and Samuel Barber, as well as favourites by Bach, Tchaikovsky, and Scriabin.

The Friends Historical Instruments Showcase Concert on Wednesday 10 August at 7pm will include performances from harpsichordist Ariana Odermatt, fortepianist Marie Searles, baroque violinist and viola d'amore player John Ma, Dr Scott Davie, Lecturer in Classical Piano, Performance Convenor, and Deputy Head of the School of Music, and some of our finest keyboard students. This concert will showcase period instruments and replicas from the ANU Keyboard Institute, which is considered the largest accessible and playable collection in the southern hemisphere.

And on Thursday 11 August at 7pm, Roy Howat, Keyboard Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, will perform works by Chopin, Borodin, Chabrier, Fauré, Elgar, Debussy and Ravel.

For four evenings in a row, audiences gathered in the Larry Sitsky Recital Room can expect a string of high-calibre concerts. And tickets are extremely affordable, with $10 general admission to Herscovitch Piano Duo, Neeman Piano Duo, and Roy Howat's performances!

Benjamin Kopp, joining Daniel Herscovitch as half of the Herscovitch Piano Duo, is resident pianist Ensemble Offspring. Herscovitch is Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

The Neeman Piano Duo have been widely acclaimed for impeccable musicianship and unique onstage chemistry in performances across America, Australia, and Asia.

Roy Howat combines an international concert career with writing, editing and lecturing, and he will give a Guest Lecture as part of the School of Music's Thursday afternoon Research Seminar Series before his evening performance. He enjoys a wide repertoire but is particularly known for expertise in French repertoire.

Read more and register here.