2019 Pythia Prize: Bianca Gannon

On December 5 2019 at Sculptress, Rubiks announced the 2019 Pythia winner as Bianca Gannon.

Bianca Gannon is a Melbourne-based improvising musician-composer from Ireland. A keen multi-disciplinary collaborator, she creates immersive multi-sensory experiences and synaesthesias, such as in her series ‘The Sound of Shadows’. In the act of breaking down barriers, in presenting art which is complex yet accessible, Bianca is motivated by that which connects us. As a performer of simultaneous piano with gamelan, Bianca brings together her training in classical composition, improvised music and Indonesian gamelan to create a chiaroscuro of otherworldly resonances and trance-like rhythms.

Bianca has lived in and studied intensively across Indonesia including on the Indonesian Arts and Culture Scholarship. Bianca's work has been presented across Australia, Europe, Canada and USA. She has been commissioned by Nimbus Trio and Elliott Hughes and has undertaken residencies with ICE at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Australian Art Orchestra, Kenny Werner and Gamelan Cudamani. She has premiered her own work at Ensemble Offspring’s Hatched Academy and regularly performs as part of improv trio Impermanence who are soon to release double album 'with //without '.

Learn more about Bianca at http://www.biancagannon.com/.