Aura Go

Aura Go is an Australian pianist whose practice spans performance, collaboration, 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 programs that interweave old and new music, and as creative collaborator in the development of performance projects. In recent reasons, 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. Aura 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 cellist Timo-Veikko Valve, 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 Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas (USA), the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus (Denmark), the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (Poland) and the Australian National Academy of Music. She has 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. Aura received her doctorate from the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, where her artistic research drew on the acting methodology of Michael Chekhov to explore the embodied imagination, creativity, and collaboration in music performance. www.aurago.net

“Stunning… a fearless performance” – New York Times

“A dazzling ability to elicit the multilayered textures” – Rondo Classic

“Go commanded a mood at once vast and intimate with deft control and sensitivity” – Limelight Magazine

“Edge-of-the-seat creativity … heartbreaking focus” – Sydney Arts Guide

“Go’s playing is unremittingly warm-hearted and insightful” – Adelaide Advertiser