Join Xenia for a FREE four-day workshop and learn about the Magnetic Resonator Piano. Apply before Tuesday the 7th of May here.
“Get Well Soon” film premiere | London
Hear Xenia’s music for the Magnetic Resonator Piano as featured in “Get Well Soon”, a new short film by Ian Pons Jewell at the London Short Film Festival.
Magnetic Resonator Piano recital | Belfast
Recital with the Magnetic Resonator Piano, also featuring Queen’s University strings.
The Night With… Festival | Glasgow
Xenia will be featured soloist in The Night With… festival in Glasgow. More details coming soon.
Magnetic Resonator Piano recital | Leeds
Solo recital with the Magnetic Resonator Piano.
Atomic Legacies
Live performance of “Atomic Legacies” for the Magnetic Resonator Piano and string quartet (with Ligeti Quartet). The performance will be recorded for broadcast on the BBC Radio 3 New Music Show on Saturday the 6th of November. Book your ticket to attend in-person here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/new-music-show-5nov21
Hearing Colour: Sonic Worlds and Other Senses | London
Our senses form our window into the world. Join pianist and composer Dr Xenia Pestova Bennett, psychoacoustician Dr Charalampos Saitis, and digital luthier-researcher Prof Andrew McPherson to learn about how associations between the senses support uniquely human forms of communication like colour and music. This art-science conversation will feature a live performance of Dr Pestova Bennett’s semi-improvised work Glowing Radioactive …
See me, Feel me, Touch me, Heal me: A Conversation on the Multimodal Experience of Sound
This panel will examine how people associate colour, shape, and touch to sound, how human sensory experience varies across individuals, and how associations between the senses support uniquely human forms of communication like language and music. We will stream and discuss Dr Xenia Pestova Bennett’s work for the Magnetic Resonator Piano, Glowing Radioactive Elements. This event is part of the …
Cyborg Piano | Gresham College Lecture-Recital
The Magnetic Resonator Piano invented by Andrew McPherson sees electromagnets suspended above the strings of a regular grand piano, allowing for control of minute details of shimmering resonance, crescendo from silence, and sustained “bowed” sounds that the performer can shape directly from the keyboard scanner while retaining the use of the original mechanism. The instrument transforms into an unrecognisable and …
POSTPONED Convention of Unconventional Instruments | Nottingham
Nottingham Forum for Artistic Research presents a recital by Xenia Pestova Bennet and Pascal Meyer, featuring music for piano, toy piano, magnetic resonator piano and electronics.
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