My Heart

Press quote

“It is always a pleasure to listen to Schoenberg. His Drei Klavierstücke were performed beautifully and without sheet music, demonstrating Killian’s expert familiarity, affinity, and deep understanding of Schoenberg’s works. Howard Dillon’s Möbius is a fast-flowing piece used gestures that relentlessly repeated and returned, always with slight deviations, until finally disintegrating. Christine McCombe’s Asphyxed contrasted with the previous work, starting with slow, haunting, and softly-played gestures, gradually moving towards sections with more intensity. Colin McKellar’s compositions often combine meticulous planning and structure with joyfulness and dance-like gestures. Killian’s stylish and elegant interpretation of McKellar’s Birth Music escorted the audience through the work’s thoughtful, complex motifs with ease and playfulness. Danish composer Gregers Brinch’s four-movement work Two Minds, was performed by Killian in a manner that revealed each section’s full gamut of emotions, tone colours, and dynamics, demonstrating further Killian’s enormous powers as a leading exponent of the atonal piano repertoire. Equally, her interpretation of Evan J Lawson’s Sikinnis 111 was masterful, conveying the work’s resonant textures, rhythmic complexities, and its underlying sense of melancholy. [from a review of the launch concert]”

— Paul Moulatlet, classikON