Piano Recital with Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser

To include works by Domenico Scarlatti and Tōru Takemitsu

Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser (she/they) is a performer, improviser and composer and researcher specialising in performing and composing new works for piano (solo

and chamber), live electronics and multi-disciplinary ensembles. Their PhD research at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance explores how we can create and use queer processes in experimental music, with a focus on electroacoustic music and improvisation. Notable performances, compositions and broadcasts include world premiere of Octet for 9 musicians by James Creed as part of the Nice To See You concert series, St Laurence Church (2025), Catford Square Music's performance of music for four pianos at the Pianodrome, Edinburgh (2025) and Leeds International Piano Competition (2024), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2023, BBC Radio 3’s Freeness: Circular Wanderings (‘Harbringers of Change’- Florence Anna Maunders, Lara Jones, Amy Bryce), Cafe Oto (One Orchestra New performance) Sound and Music podcast: Queerness, A Kinder Society - Stiftung Kunst und Musik für Dresden), Made at the Red House residency with Wild Plum Arts (PLASTIC BODIES), Residency and performance with experimental duo flxnflx with Kirkos Ensemble’s Unit 44 (Dublin), solo and chamber recitals at Bishopsgate Institute, Kyriakides Steinway gallery (Nicosia), Greyfriars Kirk (Edinburgh) Sounds like THIS festival, performance and curatorial work with Daylight Music and Common Ground: an experimental music and film series co-created by Maya-Leigh, Hannah Shilvock and Catherine Valve. Maya-Leigh is also a Britten Pears Young Artist (2020). Recordings of their work can be heard on Bandcamp and Spotify.

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Alongside her compositional and performance work, Maya is a piano and music theory teacher at the City Literary Institute and is a committed piano teacher and accompanist. Her work at City Lit encompasses beginner, intermediate and advanced piano workshops, keyboard classes and short courses in improvisation.

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