Too many keys

Five pianists will immerse you in a delightful musical trance during this special concert evening. An ode to minimalism, and to the piano.

Composer (of such films as Lion and Dune: Prophecy soundtrack, among others) and pianist Hauschka transforms the hall into a sonic laboratory, letting the audience navigate between purity and complexity. His tool is the grand piano, which he ‘prepares’ with bits of tape, felt and all sorts of materials. Add a generous dash of electronics and you end up with music that makes your body vibrate in every fibre.

With her warm and minimalist music, Turkish Büşra Kayıkçı moves in similar spheres to her example Nils Frahm, for whose Piano Day compilation she also contributed. She is fascinated by the sound of her instrument. With echoes to Cage and Frahm, but above all a very pure individuality, she nestles you in her cosy repetitive and endless sounds.

In the studios of Nils Frahm, Amsterdam-based pianist Helena Basilova recorded an album of interpretations of the work of Ryuichi Sakamoto, whose music hovers between 80s synth, electro-pop and (neo)classical. On piano, synthesizers and electronics, she pays an incantatory and appropriate tribute to the maestro.

Composer Alvin Curran and pianist Daan Vandewalle have been making music together for more than 20 years. Central to their concert is Era Ora (Italian for ‘It's about time’ or ‘Finally’ or ‘Let's go’). With that thought in mind, Curran and Vandewalle create a world of conjuring sounds and endlessly varying masses of sound that fill the entire Chamber Music Hall.