Casse-Tete: A Festival of Experimental Music returns to White Rock and Surrey with four free concerts May 24-26, 2024! The festival’s playfully eclectic program features new music, free improvisation, sound art, and more, but new music lovers will be most excited about the concert Friday, May 24, 8 PM at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in South Surrey, in which Vancouver pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa will perform a selection of music primarily consisting of the compositions of Rodney Sharman.
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Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa is among Canada’s foremost contemporary music pianists, hailed as a “keyboard virtuoso and avant-garde muse” (Georgia Straight) whose “emotional intensity”
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transforms music “from notes on a page to a stunning work of art” (Victoria Times Colonist).
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Rodney Sharman is one of Canada’s most beloved composers; he has won the Kranichsteiner Prize in Germany, the CBC Young Composers Competition and the Walter Carsen Prize, among many others, and has been resident composer for the Vancouver Symphony, the Victoria Symphony and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.
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For more about Casse-Tete, please visit the festival’s website. The festival is proudly sponsored by the Canadian Music Centre in BC, the City of Surrey, and the White Rock BIA as part of the White Rock Jazz & Blues Festival.