Linda Kouvaras
Linda Kouvaras is a pianist, composer and musicologist with a particular focus on contemporary Australian music. She has recorded, commissioned and premiered numerous new works for piano, and performs widely in city and regional centres.
Her recordings appear on Move Records, as well as the ABC Audio, Cicada and Au Go Go labels.
After a Master’s Degree in piano in 1991, she was awarded the Hugh Williamson Fellowship at the Australian Centre to research contemporary Australian composition. Her PhD examined the ramifications of postmodernism and feminism for Sweet Death, a contemporary Australian chamber opera by Andrée Greenwell, produced by Chamber Made Opera.
Her articles, chapters and criticism have appeared in Sounds Australian, Journal of Australian Studies, Context, Australian Feminist Studies, Cultural Studies: Pluralism and Theory 2, APRA, New Music Articles, Aflame with Music: 100 Years of Music at the University of Melbourne, Sound Ideas: Australian Composers born after 1950, and Ormond Papers. Her compositions are published by the Australian Music Centre. She teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts and at the Faculty of Music, the University of Melbourne.
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Linda Kouvaras has established a unique language of keyboard music in the tradition of the great composer/pianists … remarkable
Linda Kouvaras is featured on the following titles
PianoWorks
Linda Kouvaras’s piano works respond to three places: Ormond College at Melbourne University, bayside St Kilda, and Bundanon on the Shoalhaven. Each set reflects lived experience of a distinct site.
Composer
Performing as Team of Pianists
The Melbourne-based Team of Pianists is acclaimed for high standards of artistry and professionalism, and has captivated audiences in Australia and overseas for nearly twenty years through solo, chamber and concerto performance.
Peter Sculthorpe: Piano Music
Thirty years of piano music by Peter Sculthorpe, one of Australia's finest composers, in exemplary performances by the Team of Pianists, Michael Hannan and the composer himself.
Hamilton
The Team of Pianists present a programme of excellent piano works for solo, duo and two pianos, spanning popular classics and Australian repertoire.
Compositions by Linda Kouvaras also appear on
Move 50
Twenty-four Australian composers mark Move Records’ fiftieth year with short new works gathered on this commemorative disc.
Composer
Giants in the Land
Recorded in Melba Hall, this world premiere finds Melbourne pianist Ian Holtham in a brilliant cross-section of Australian contemporary piano works by Brenton Broadstock, Linda Kouvaras, Stephen Ingham, Stuart Greenbaum, Johanna Selleck and Christine McCombe.
Homegrown
Themes of nature, motherhood, and a profound spiritual connection to place pervade Homegrown — art song by Australian women composers, performed by soprano Rebecca Cassidy and pianist Alex Raineri.
The Sky Is Melting
Marianne Rothschild and Glenn Riddle formed as a duo in 2004, recording Stuart Greenbaum’s Sonata for Violin and Piano for the CD Mercurial. Broadcast on ABC Classic FM, ABC Radio National, 3MBS FM and Radio New Zealand, they have premiered and recorded many works by Melbourne composers including Broadstock, Greenbaum, Pertout, Schmidt and Kouvaras.
Repose
Beautiful lullabies and cradle songs by Australian composers from 1890–1999. Soprano Linda Thompson and pianist Deviani Segal present world premiere recordings drawn from a century of Australian cradle song.
Linda Kouvaras also appears on
Bright Tracks
Winner of the 1998 ABC Classic FM Listeners’ Choice Award, this double CD gathers chamber music by Brenton Broadstock, one of Australia’s most established and respected composers.
Other credits
Mozart
Having already tackled Liszt, Chopin and Godowsky, Ian Holtham turns to Mozart in this solo piano recital for Move, continuing his survey of the virtuoso keyboard repertoire.
Linda Kouvaras has been a member of
Team of Pianists
The Melbourne-based Team of Pianists is acclaimed for high standards of artistry and professionalism, and has captivated audiences in Australia and overseas for nearly twenty years through solo, chamber and concerto performance.