Arabella Teniswood-Harvey
Arabella Teniswood-Harvey is a Tasmanian-born pianist who studied in Melbourne and, in 1999, was awarded a full scholarship to the Australian National Academy of Music’s inaugural Advanced Performance Program.
She teaches classical piano, music history and art theory at the University of Tasmania while maintaining an active performance career. She appears frequently as a chamber musician and as soloist with organisations including the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the State Orchestra of Victoria and the Melbourne Chorale, and has performed in the United Kingdom with violinist Edwin Paling and at numerous festivals in Australia.
She holds a doctorate from the University of Tasmania. Her dissertation examined James McNeill Whistler’s interest in music and how it shaped his art. Her articles have been published in The British Art Journal, Music and Art and The Burlington Magazine. She has given lecture-recitals at the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery in Glasgow, the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and Colby College Museum of Art in Maine, and is a sought-after presenter of pre-concert talks for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
Arabella Teniswood-Harvey is featured on the following titles
Carpe Diem: Piano Music from Italy
This recording celebrates Italy, and Rome above all, as a lasting place of artistic pilgrimage and inspiration. Italian-themed solo piano works frame the premiere of Michael Kieran Harvey’s Carpe Diem (2015).
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Lennox Berkeley: Music for Violin and Piano and Solo Violin
Sir Lennox Berkeley was one of the most accomplished British composers of the twentieth century. His prolific output spanned opera, theatre and film scores, symphony, chamber and piano music, and a large body of choral work.
Kenneth Leighton: Music for Violin and Piano
Winner of Gramophone critic Peter Dickinson’s personal best for 2014, this recording presents the premiere of neglected masterpieces for violin and piano, opening a distinctive duo sound world.
The Ring of Bone
While the past decade has seen recordings of Elisabeth Lutyens’ chamber and choral works released to critical acclaim, her piano music has remained obscure. Pianist Arabella Teniswood-Harvey has carefully researched and here presents that neglected repertoire.
Arabella Teniswood-Harvey also appears on
PRTZL
This release of original compositions by Harvey centres on the monumental Piano Sonata No. 4, a homage to the anti-fascist Antonio Gramsci. That theme runs through solo and ensemble works whose moods range from nostalgically whimsical to furiously satirical.
Patañjali
This CD and performance DVD celebrates Patañjali’s Yoga-Sūtra in music and āsana (2015). Michael Kieran Harvey composed the score and plays keyboards, with Arabella Teniswood-Harvey (piano) and Eugene Ughetti (percussion).
Other credits
Catalogue des Errances Bibliques
Michael Kieran Harvey’s epic Catalogue des Errances Bibliques deploys eight keyboardists and four percussionists with spoken narration by Arjun von Caemmerer: twenty-five musical pieces alternating with twenty-five short narratives.