...a stunning musician with a huge range, expressively and acoustically… - Annea Lockwood

...a great programme, focusing on the lesser known piano pieces of Annea Lockwood and Luc Ferrari... It takes a fine sense of timing and balancing of contrasts to make these pieces work as cohesive musical experiences, and Pestova Bennett managed this admirably... Pestova Bennett played with the deftness that a good Ferrari performance seems to require... hiding the difficulties of making such mercurial music seem facile. - Review by Ben Harper (read more here)

Xenia presents Luc Ferrari’s rarely-performed masterpiece "36 Enfilades" for piano and tape. These stunning short pieces are humorous, virtuosic and engaging, quoting composers of the past including Schumann and Brahms. The Ferrari is paired with radical music by experimental composer and sound artist Annea Lockwood.

Xenia's ongoing work with Annea Lockwood commenced with a performance of Piano Burning with the composer in North Wales in 2013.  This collaboration was followed by renditions of other Piano Transplants (1967 - 2005): Piano Drowning and Piano Garden as well as working closely with the composer on her other piano pieces. The programme can include an outdoor realisation of one or more of the process pieces with Xenia alongside “indoor” piano-based works selected from Annea Lockwood’s complete piano catalogue: Red Mesa (1993), Ear-Walking Woman (1996), RCSC (2001) and Ceci n’est pas un piano (2002), available on Unsounds Records (Amsterdam).

Xenia Pestova Bennett and Annea Lockwood: Image Credit: © Dimitri Djuric