Zubin Kanga

Zubin Kanga is a pianist, composer, and technologist. For over a decade, he has been at the forefront of curating and creating interdisciplinary musical programmes that seek to explore and redefine what it means to be a performer through interactions with new technologies. In 2020 Kanga was awarded a £1.4 million UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to fund his latest multi-year project Cyborg Soloists, which is unlocking new possibilities in composition and performance through interactions with AI and machine learning; interactive visuals and VR; motion and biosensors, and new hybrid instruments. Zubin has premiered more than 130 works and performed at many international festivals including the BBC Proms, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, London Contemporary Music Festival, (UK) Melbourne Festival (Australia), Festival Présences (France), Time of Music (Finland), Klang Festival (Denmark), PODIUM Festival (Germany), and November Music (Netherlands). As a composer, Kanga’s output includes Dead Leaves for piano and live electronics, which was selected to represent Australia at the International Rostrum of Composers in 2018; Spider Web Castle for viola and piano, which he premièred with Brett Dean at Extended Play Festival; and Steel on Bone, which he premiered at hcmf//, featuring MiMU gloves morphing the sounds of extended techniques inside the piano, which The Times praised for its ‘bravura and madness’. www.zubinkanga.com www.cyborgsoloists.com