Saturday 17th October, 2026 at 7.45 pm
In Friendship and Memory
Program
Carlos GUASTAVINO (1912-2000)
Mis Amigos: Musical portraits for young pianists (1966)
Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)
Variations on a Theme by Schumann, Op. 9 (1854)
Interval
Hélène THAM (1843-1925)
Six Pieces for Piano (1883)
Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828)
Drei Klavierstücke, D. 946 (1828)
Aura Go is an Australian pianist whose practice spans performance, collaboration, curation, education and artistic research. She performs across the globe, as soloist in concertos from J.S. Bach to Sofia Gubaidulina, as recitalist and chamber musician in imaginative programs that interweave old and new music, and as creative collaborator in the development of performance projects. In recent seasons, Aura has been soloist with orchestras such as the Melbourne, Adelaide and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria. She has performed at international festivals including the Edinburgh Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, PianoEspoo, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Metropolis Festival, and the Musica Viva Festival.
In 2025, performance highlights include the Australian premiere performance of Doreen Carwithen’s Piano Concerto with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, a new collaboration with the Australian String Quartet in piano quintets of Amy Beach and Gabriel Fauré, and song recitals with Scottish mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison (Sydney Opera House Utzon Room) and Australian soprano Sara Mcliver (Dunkeld Festival). With pianist Tomoe Kawabata, Aura founded the KIAZMA Piano Duo, which has established itself as one of Australia’s most dynamic ensembles. She enjoys a regular collaboration with cellist Timo-Veikko Valve (principal cello, Australian Chamber Orchestra), with whom she recorded the complete Beethoven cello and piano sonatas for ABC Classics. Other recordings to her credit include Japanese works for four-hands and two pianos with Tomoe Kawabata, and piano duets by Ekaterina Komalkova with Ian Munro. In 2023 Aura toured nationally for Musica Viva as pianist-actor in the new stage adaptation of Paul Kildea’s Chopin’s Piano.
A passionate educator, Aura has been visiting artist at the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas (USA), the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus (Denmark), the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (Poland) and the Australian National Academy of Music. She has taught piano at Yale College (USA) and the Sibelius Academy (Finland). Following studies at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Australian National Academy of Music, Aura attained her Master of Music at the Yale School of Music. Aura received her doctorate from the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, where her artistic research drew on the acting methodology of Michael Chekhov to explore the embodied imagination, creativity, and collaboration in music performance.
To hear some of Aura Go’s playing, try this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byINHLV7L04&t=10s
Artist page on Musica Viva Australia’s Website
https://musicaviva.com.au/concerts/regional-touring/2026-featured-artists/aura-go/
We would like to acknowledge the support of Musica Viva for this concert.
Yass Music Club 