Aura Go is an Australian pianist whose practice spans performance, curation, education and artistic research. She performs across the globe, as soloist in concertos from J.S. Bach to Sofia Gubaidulina, as recitalist and chamber musician in imaginative programs that interweave old and new music, and as narrator and actor in interdisciplinary performance projects. In recent seasons, Aura has worked as concerto soloist with orchestras such as the Melbourne, Adelaide and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria. She has performed at international festivals including the Edinburgh Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, PianoEspoo, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Metropolis Festival, and the Musica Viva Festival.
Aura enjoys a regular collaboration with Timo-Veikko Valve (Principal Cello, Australian Chamber Orchestra), with whom she recorded the complete Beethoven cello and piano sonatas for ABC Classics. Other recordings to her credit include first recordings of Japanese works for four-hands and two pianos with KIAZMA Piano Duo partner Tomoe Kawabata, and a recent release of first recordings of piano duets by Ekaterina Komalkova with Ian Munro. In 2023 Aura toured nationally for Musica Viva as pianist-actor in the new stage adaptation of Paul Kildea's Chopin’s Piano.
Aura is Head of Piano at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance at Monash University. A passionate educator, she has been visiting artist at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus (Denmark), the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (Poland), the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas (USA), and the Australian National Academy of Music. She has also taught piano at Yale College (USA) and the Sibelius Academy (Finland). Following studies at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Australian National Academy of Music, Aura completed her Master of Music at the Yale School of Music. In 2023 Aura was awarded her doctorate from the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. Her artistic research explored the intersection of acting and music performance, with a focus on developing musicians’ embodied imagination as a foundation for creative and compelling performances.
“Stunning… a fearless performance”
