Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Ancient Letters
6 June @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm AEST

Celebrating the chart-topping ABC Classic albums, Ancient Letters, and Butterflying: the music of Elena Kats-Chernin, ARIA award-winning pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska and one of Australia’s most lauded composers, Elena Kats-Chernin AO, invite you to a rare tête-a-tête in this special concert: a glimpse into this “true dream team” performing four hands at the piano.
Offering a unique chance to witness two of Australia’s foremost musicians re-create Kats-Chernin’s works live, second-to-second, the duo traverse the wondrous catalogue of Kats-Chernin’s music, presenting well-loved works in an utterly new light and unveiling new treasures almost as they are being written.
Selected as Limelight magazine’s Editor’s Choicein its December 2025, Ancient Letters reached no.1 on the ARIA Classical and Crossover charts, where her piano concerto no.3, Lebewohl, performed by Cislowska with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra has been praised as one of “the most brilliant Australian works so far of the 21st century” (Limelight).
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