The acclaimed pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa discusses Music on Main’s Winter Solstice, this Wednesday and Thursday (11th & 12th December 2019) and more, with Joseph Planta.

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

A lot of people in this town mark the Winter Solstice, the holidays, with the tradition of Music on Main. The venue is the legendary Heritage Hall on the southeast corner of Main Street and 15^th Avenue, and joining me now is Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, who’ll preview what to expect this Wednesday and Thursday evening. She will be joined in performance by Caroline Shaw, the 2013 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, and the vocalist and pianist Gabriel Kahane. I’ll ask Rachel about performing with Music on Main, about the venue, and what sort of music will be performed; as well as what this time of year means for her as well as Music on Main attendees. Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa has been hailed in the press as a “keyboard virtuoso and avant-garde muse.” She is one of Canada’s foremost contemporary music pianists, and has performed throughout the country as well as around the world. She was co-founder of the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver, and her debut CD Cosmophony was released to great acclaim. Visit www.iwaasa.com for more. And visit www.musiconmain.ca for tickets. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa; Ms. Iwaasa, good morning.

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