Open Day at Grainger Museum (2024)

Open Day at Grainger Museum showcases this unique and provocative collection through the permanent exhibition, Grainger Amplified, which immerses the visitor in Percy Grainger’s life and times illustrating his 'cosmopolitan and universalist outlook on music'. Solo pianists from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music will perform live at 12pm and 2pm on Grainger’s historic DuoArt piano. Come and explore how music, museology, and creative practice intersect!

Performance Schedule:

12:00pm – Oscar Kwan

Fryderyk Chopin (1810–1849)
Polonaise-Fantasy in A flat major, Op. 61 (1846)

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1826)
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (1st movement) (1807)

Oscar Kwan is a current master student specialising in piano performance research in Melbourne Conservatorium. His primary teachers include Caroline Almonte, Andrea Lam, and Jerry Wong. Oscar obtained the ABRSM Diploma certificate with distinction in 2022, and LRSM certificate soon after that. Oscar secured second prize in Intermediate Group in Cremona International Music Festival, Italy in 2013. He also performed with the Macao orchestra in 2011.

2:00pm – Brian Luo

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Three Dances from "The Firebird" (1910)
Transcription by Guido Agosti (1901–1989)

Brian Luo is a completing his Master of Music (Performance) degree at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music studying with Glenn Riddle. Born in Adelaide, he has studied at the Elder Conservatorium and the Purcell School in London. He has won a number of competitions and awards including the MCM Concerto and Aria Competition, the Boroondara Concerto Competition, the Musical Society of Victoria’s Hephzibah Menuhin Piano Award, first prize in the Melbourne Recital Centre Great Romantics Competition, and the prestigious Elisabeth Murdoch prize.