Phoenix Collective Quartet & Zen Zeng
Sun, 27 Apr
|Wesley Music Centre
Phoenix Collective Quartet & Zen Zeng (Piano/ Melbourne) join forces for a truly remarkable concert.
Time & Location
27 Apr 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Wesley Music Centre, 20-22 National Circuit, Entrance via, Fitzroy St, Forrest ACT 2603, Australia
About the event
Phoenix Collective Quartet & Zen Zeng
Fresh from their Sydney Opera House debut, Phoenix Collective Quartet joins forces with star pianist Zen Zeng to present a program exploring inner worlds mapped and shared through sound.
The centrepiece of the program is Schumann’s epic piano quintet, composed with his beloved wife Clara in mind. Written at a creative high point in Schumann’s life, the work also contains hints of his internal mental struggle. The journey into emotional interior worlds continues with Shostakovich’s intensely personal String Quartet no 8; the bleak compositional landscape littered with the composer’s incantatory musical graffiti tag of D-S-C-H hints at his troubled psyche. Rockstar Italian cellist Giovanni Sollima’s whimsical tribute to an imagined folk style, the lighthearted, Sonnets et Rondeaux will introduce this dynamic program of contrasts.