11 December 2014
Paul Keating launches new Geoffrey Tozer CDs
On 11 December 2014 Paul Keating launched a new CD called Pieces from Childhood featuring pieces composed by Australian viruoso pianist Geoffrey Tozer (pictured) to mark the fifth anniversary of his death. The recording is performed by Lachlan Redd, a pianist who Tozer greatly admired and with whom he worked. Also released are four archive recordings of Geoffrey Tozer concerts in Osaka, Hobart and New Zealand. Details of these recordings, along with program notes, are available from this website,
Further reading
Geoffrey Tozer
Geoffrey Tozer was an artist of the first rank, a consummate musician, a concert pianist and recitalist with few peers, possessing perfect pitch, a boundless musical memory, the ability to improvise, to transpose instantly into any key or to create on the piano a richly textured reduction of an orchestral score at sight.
Pieces from Childhood
Geoffrey Tozer’s 'Pieces from Childhood' allow us to glimpse, if only briefly, the adventures of the young genius into the world of classical music. Tozer’s music, and emotions he expresses – sometimes tumultuous, sometimes meditative – are ever the embodiment of a growing young artist.
