False Harmonics #28: Currawong Project

About the artists:

Arseniy Gusev is a composer,concert pianist and recipient of Charles Ives Fellowship 2025 and winner of the Singapore International Piano Competition 2021. Since his orchestral debut at the age of 15, Gusev’s compositions have been performed in such venues as Mariinsky Theater, Carnegie Hall, Konzerthaus Dortmund, Woolsey Hall, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Shanghai Philharmonic, He presents a colorful variety of styles and genres, some of which are solo, collaborative, across orchestral and chamber music, film and theater scores, electronic compositions, lofi, techno, ballet, and opera. Among his most distinguished mentors and influences are David Lang (with whom he studied at the Yale School of Music), Sergei Babayan (his teacher at the Juilliard School and previously at the Cleveland Institute of Music), and Sergei Slonimsky (St. Petersburg Conservatory mentor). Several of Gusev's works notably explore alternative and imaginative history, as well as its cultural oddities . Among his albums are Enfleurage (2023), Musical Offering (, 2024), Cabinet of Curiosities ( 2025), and Witraż ( 2025). Arseniy is a young Steinway artist. His compositions have been published by Kompozitor (2018-2022) and Donemus (2025-present) publishing companies.

Asiya Korepanova, who in 2023 performed Rachmaninoff’s complete solo piano works for his 150th anniversary, is a quintessential completist hailed by Boston Musical Intelligencer as “more than I could have ever imagined” and by South Florida Classical Review as “one of the finest Rachmaninoff pianists on the concert scene." Recognized as a composer, visual artist, and poet, she has authored numerous original works and transcriptions, having studied composition with Albert Leman, chair of the Moscow Conservatory’s composition department and a student of Shostakovich. Her multimedia projects combine her poetry and artwork inspired by Liszt, Bach, Tchaikovsky, and Mussorgsky. Born to a musical family in Russia, she debuted at nine with Mozart’s Concerto No. 8, performing her own cadenza. Since immigrating to the U.S. in 2012, she has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Phillips Collection, the Newport Classical, Tippet Rise, and many other venues. She is the artistic director of Flatiron Festival, a chamber music festival in Manhattan.

Élisabeth Pion is a French-Canadian pianist Élisabeth Pion is the Gold Laureate and Audience Choice Award winner of the 2025 Honens International Piano Competition. She appears on international stages as a recitalist, chamber musician, and guest artist, earning acclaim for her technical precision, expressive range, and deep engagement with her repertoire.Élisabeth has performed at prestigious venues such Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Maison Symphonique, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, and Sala Cecília Meireles. She is a regular guest artist with distinguished ensembles including the Orchestre Métropolitain, Edmonton Symphony, the Toledo Symphony, the Brazilian Symphony, and Les Violons du Roy, and has collaborated with conductors such as Gerard Schwarz, Elias Grandy, Nathalie Marin, Kensho Watanabe, and Nicolas Ellis, to name a few. She was a Radio-Canada 2024-25 Breakthrough Artist.

Han Chen is a Grammy Award-nominated pianist who plays scores old and new with rare rigor and insight. Chen received a 2026 Grammy nomination for his Florence Price Piano Concerto Recording, featuring the Malmö Opera Orchestra led by John Jeter Alex Ross of The New Yorker has described Chen as follows: “the Taiwanese pianist Han Chen, a noted interpreter of the Ligeti Études and other modernist repertory, has made a blistering album of the [Liszt] opera transcriptions.” Gold Medalist at the 2013 China International Piano Competition and a prizewinner at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition, he has also been praised by Gramophone as “impressively commanding and authoritative" and further cited by The New York Times for his “graceful touch,” “rhythmic precision” and “hypnotic charm. ”Mr. Chen’s musical vision is manifest in his four solo Naxos albums, focusing on Franz Liszt, Anton Rubinstein, Thomas Adès, and György Ligeti. He has appeared as soloist with the Calgary Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, China Symphony Orchestra, and Xiamen Philharmonic, among others. Han Chen studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky, Wha Kyung Byun, and Ursula Oppens at The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, and CUNY Graduate Center. A Steinway Artist, he is represented by Black Tea Music.

Nicolas Namoradze is a visionary pianist and composer known for his innovative artistry. He came to international attention in 2018 upon winning the triennial Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary, Canada, and has since garnered international acclaim for his performances and recordings. A Musical America New Artist, BBC Music Magazine Rising Star, and Gramophone One to Watch, he was bestowed the Pianist of the Year Award by the UK Critics’ Circle in 2022. His recordings have received accolades including the Choc de Classica, Instrumental Disc of the Month in BBC Music Magazine, and Editor’s Choice in Gramophone and Presto Classical. Now an exclusive Ondine recording artist, his first album with the label features Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata and his own solo piano arrangement of the Grosse Fuge. Highlights of the 2026/27 season include recitals at the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Wigmore Hall, Tokyo’s Triphony Hall and Taipei’s National Concert Hall, residencies at the Banff Centre and the Sarasota, Honens and Tonebase Festivals, and major composition premieres including a co-commission by Wigmore Hall and the BBC. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia and raised in Budapest, Namoradze studied in Budapest, Vienna, Florence, New York and London and now serves on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center and deputizes at The Juilliard School.

Huei Lin is a filmmaker from New York City. His work is known for its inventive visual language and raw expressivity, garnering accolades in the music video, video art, and short form documentary genres. In 2016, he was an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity; his collaboration with the Indigenous Leadership Conference produced an acclaimed short film Black Earth, the first of many hybrid music video works in the contemporary music space. From 2017 to 2018, Huei worked in the post production department at the noted documentary studio EyeSteelFilm in Montreal, Quebec. In 2020, Huei directed an operatic music video Messiah/Complex for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra featuring the TunisianCanadian opera star Rihab Chaieb: the broadcast received widespread critical praise in the press. Recent projects include the 2025 film commission Il Teatro Rosso, in collaboration with Harvard University composer Steven Kazuo Takasugi and Montréal avant-garde ensemble No Hay Banda; and a 2025 music video for the prestige classical music label Deutsche Grammophon and the Sphinx Organization. Recent festival premieres include appearances at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse in Germany and the Time:Spans Festival in New York. His work has been featured in The New York Times. www.hueilin.com