Wendouree Centre for Performing Arts
1220 Howitt Street, Wendouree, 3355

A graduate of the Julliard school in New York, pianist Elyane Laussade has delighted audiences on five continents with her imaginative and strongly individual playing. The New York Times has said she is “a pianist with a powerful, polished technique and many an original interpretive notion….with an impeccable sense of style and dazzling power.” Originally from the USA, her principal teachers were Abbey Simon, Karen Brandt, Lili Kraus, and Ruth Tomfohrde. She has now established herself as one of Australia’s finest performers.

As a soloist, Elyane has played recitals in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Africa, the USA, and Europe. In Italy, she has performed and given masterclasses in Bologna, Carpi, Dozza, Orbetello, Modena, and Gallarate. Her recital tours in France have included solo recitals, chamber music with the Quatuor Joachim, and several WW1 commemorative recitals. Elyane’s tour of Taiwan included recitals and master classes in Taipei, Tainan, Chaiyi, and at the National Concert Hall in Taichung.

As a concerto soloist, she has played across the USA and in Australia, and has worked with conductors Paavo Jarvi, Marcus Stenz, Anthony Ingliss, Peter Bay, and many more. Elyane is working her way through performances of all 27 Mozart piano concertos with community orchestras around Australia. More than a third of the way to her goal, Elyane has also joined the BSO on an odyssey to play all five Beethoven piano concertos over five years.

The program “The Passage of Time” will see Elyane Laussade perform Tchaikovsky’s “The Seasons”, with seasonally related works by Chopin, Liszt, Chaminade and others added to each of the four seasons. This highly imaginative program, very much in the 19th century Romantic tradition, blends introspection with rhapsody.

Tickets can be purchased to the show only, or together with an afternoon tea with Elyane.  All proceeds will go to the Don Huntley Scholarship Fund, in recognition of Don Huntley’s passion and advocacy for performing arts at Ballarat Grammar. Don Huntley was an alumnus, parent, and community-minded individual.

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