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It’s finally happening! ヽ(•‿•)ノ Bee-Sharp Honeybee is out in the world. Grab your headphones and lend your ears to the sweet sounds of the @sunwrae string orchestra and the secrets of a honeybee hive. It’s rolling out on all di

A room with a view ;-) 🎹 my favourite combo, all in a day’s work: tuning, voicing and recording a solo piano commission #yamahac7 #onthechopinblock #myworkbench #floatingpiano

It’s imminent! ヽ(•‿•)ノ Prepare your headphones 🎧 🤍

In 10 days time the studio recording of @beesharphoneybee performed by a 16-piece @sunwrae string orchestra will be released into the world and I’ll be able to breathe out ;-

For the last month I’ve been an Artist in Residence at @bigciaustralia after winning their Environmental Award last year.. what a month it has been, surrounded by trees, immersed in the sounds of the forest.

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The Bilpin I

a brief interlude hiking #mtstapylton to get some perspective ;-) pretty good perspective up there #gunigalg #outdoors #mtzero #grampianspeakstrail #taipanwall #grampians @thegrampians @grampianspeakstrail

A snap of us performing @beesharphoneybee at Kokaru Hall @mezaparkalielaestrade in Riga, Latvia, with String Quintet #Sponte featuring
#MartaSpārniņa #LieneNeija-Kalniņa
#IvarsBrīnums #ĒriksKir&scaron;felds
#OskarsBokanovs and the fabulous #CJ from

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Pleased to announce I’ve been awarded a BigCi Environmental Award! 💥🥇

I’ll be an Artist in Residence next year at the Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives, on the edge of the Wollemi National Park in the Blue Mountains,

Happy Make Music Day! 💥🎶 Here’s a few pics from my time at the Bechstein Piano Factory 🎹👩🏻&zwj;🔧 wowsers what an eye-opening and inspiring few weeks buried under grand pianos.. loved every minute of it (although translating piano parts fr

at the Bechstein factory in Seifhennersdorf, Germany ✨ what an amazing adventure. One week in, completing some specialised training 🎹👩🏻&zwj;🔧 A bit slack on photos, been buried under pianos! Day off today, sunshine calling ☀️ more coming soon..

it’s been up, up and away again, for another adventure in Germany via planes, trains and automobiles.. this time through Dresden, to the Bechstein Piano Factory, right near the Czech Border.. #staytuned more shortly.. 🎹👩🏻&zwj;🔧 #sogreen #co

the day has arrived, pitching @beesharphoneybee @classicalnext in Hannover Germany.. thankfully my luggage turned up today (!) so feeling lucky 😆 💥 great to meet so new connections over the past few days with @soundsaustralia support 🥳 #classical

After a quiet couple of years on the performance front thanks to you-know-what, happy to say I’m a proud recipient of a @soundsaustralia export stimulus grant, to pitch the wonderful @beesharphoneybee in Hannover Germany in May @classicalnext 2

Remembering the honour to perform for #princephilip #dukeofedinburgh (may he rest in peace) and #sirdavidattenborough at #australiahouse in #london for the official launch of the @bbcone documentary series on the #greatbarrierreef (c2015?) ~ by golly

meanwhile #onthechopinblock somewhere in the english countryside #itshammertime and @opportunepianos is keeping me sane ;-) A week late for #worldpianoday whoopsie but I’ve been buried under the #eboniesandivories and moving house 🏡🎹👩🏻&zwj;

so #opportunityknocks whilst marooned in the UK.. wowsers what a year! I wrote an article published by the @australianmusiccentre Resonate Magazine this week, about making the most out of an ordinary situation 🎹👩🏻&zwj;🔧 my website has the article

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Pleased to announce the world premiere of Bee-Sharp Honeybee in its full glory at the Natimuk Frinj Festival (Vic, AUS), Sat Nov 2nd.. 🐝🎶 Featuring a 12-piece string orchestra, music by @sunwrae with live projections by CJ (all the way from NYC), a

the amazing Trautonium has arrived in Melbourne for the first time in history!! I’m playing vibes alongside the fabulous Peter Pichler (Germany), on this extremely rare 1920’s instrument (made in Berlin), with Nick Wilson on #electronics

visited my old #piano and gave it a spruce up, still in very good working order for over 100 years old 🎶 nice work @timmetherall

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