Piano Circus

Piano Circus is a musical ensemble consisting of six pianists.

The original six-piano ensemble formed in 1989 to perform Steve Reich's Six Pianos. Founder members included Kirsteen Davidson-Kelly, Richard Harris, Kate Heath, Max Richter, Ginny Strawson and John Wood.

Since then they have created a repertoire of over one hundred works, the majority of which have been written specially for the ensemble. These include pieces by Kevin Volans, Graham Fitkin, Brian Eno, Louis Andriessen, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Terry Riley, Nikki Yeoh, Michael Nyman, Robert Moran, Peter Bengtson, and Heiner Goebbels. Piano Circus has released seven CDs with Decca and now has three CDs available on its own label.

The six pianists – as of 2015, Dawn Hardwick, James Young, Neil Georgeson, Paul Cassidy,Yshani Perinpanayagam and Leo Nicholson – have a broad range of experience, from traditional western classical music to jazz, pop and rock, African and Asian traditional music, improvisation and composition. Between them the members of Piano Circus work in collaboration with film and video makers, theatre and circus performers, dancers and choreographers, and in a variety of educational settings.

Piano Circus (album)

Piano Circus is the self-titled debut by the piano ensemble Piano Circus. It was released by Argo Records in 1992.

Track listing

It consists of four tracks:

Total running time: 65.02

Personnel

Recorded for Argo by 'Another Complete Fabrication' at The Mill, Cookham, in April 1990, and at Surrey Sound, Leatherhead, in April 1991 (Sextet)