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pianist and composer, in London
🎹💿Palimpsest - out now!

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“Poulenc's unflinching zest for life is audible in every movement…glorious, thick dissonances that the duo plays wholeheartedly. Gray and Hao are well-timed in the unison passages…Hao and Gray play all of it solidly.” —AllMusic

Enjoy Poulenc performed by pianists Antony Gray and Rob Hao wherever you listen to music at the link in bio!

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“Classical music lovers and listeners searching for background music with an intellectual edge will appreciate Palimpsest, pianist Rob Hao’s first full-length album. … Hao emphasizes shifts in texture with meticulous shaping of lines and individual notes.… Hao’s Palimpsest is a creative highlight on the album that follows the abruptly unfinished end of the Schubert sonata. An astonishingly smooth transition catapults the listener into a stimulating chaos, where fragments and shadows of Schubert’s unfinished piece swirl as though caught in a whirlwind. Repeated melodic figurations and pitch collections help ground the flurry of notes. The composition Palimpsest 571 is creative and energetic, bringing a classic composer into the frenetic energies of our own time.… Conscientious recording and production techniques capture the nuances and fine details of the interpretations that Hao has worked so diligently to create.” –AllMusic

Enjoy Palimpsest by pianist Rob Hao wherever you listen to music: listn.fm/palimpsest.

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TONIGHT: ATONAL KAT PRESENTS: CHEWY, CRUNCHY – MICHAEL FINNISSY / ANNIE ARIES

Atonal Kat returns to Cafe OTO tonight for a particularly dense edition of its sporadic sonic soirées, curated by Xenia Pestova Bennett and Ed Bennett. The series is built around exploratory music and intense listening, and this edition places the generative, improvised electronics of Annie Aries alongside a programme celebrating Michael Finnissy in his 80th year.

Bern-based Swiss-Philippine composer, sound artist and performer Annie Aries works with a customised modular synth, spatial sound and embodied performance. Her live sets explore the point where generative systems stop behaving predictably and improvisation takes over, with contemporary electronics and club music entering a practice also shaped by installation and experimental sound environments.

The second half turns to Michael Finnissy, with Mary Dullea, Rob Hao, Darragh Morgan and Xenia Pestova Bennett performing music from across his work. Born in Brixton in 1946, Finnissy began composing at four and later studied at the Royal College of Music. While there, he privately imagined his future music as a kind of “cabinet of curiosities”: an individual account of world music capable of holding together periods, genres and references with both affection and irony.

That breadth extends well beyond music. His aesthetics have been shaped by underground and avant-garde cinema, from Brakhage, Jack Smith and Warhol to Pasolini, Jarman and Godard, as well as Hokusai, Cézanne, Hockney, Rauschenberg, Satie and Ives.

Tonight’s programme includes Ninth Political Agenda, Mississippi Hornpipes, Molly House and the UK premiere of Fortsetzung von Schuberts Sonaten-Fragment D769A, plus further works.

🎟 £12 adv / £7 members

→ Tickets via Stories and cafeoto.co.uk

→ Doors 7:30pm

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Artist Spotlight: Rob Hao @robhao // Finnissy @ 80

In 2026, one of Britain’s most significant composers, Michael Finnissy, celebrates his 80th birthday. To mark the occasion, Australian pianist Rob Hao performs three major recent works for solo piano.

'Ninth Political Agenda' presents three contrasting settings of Lone Pilgrim, while 'Skladanje skozi slovenski pesmi' reworks Slovenian folk songs through different imagined approaches to folk performance.

Completing the programme is 'Tenth Political Agenda', written especially for Rob Hao. Exploring the life and influences of Frédéric Chopin, the work fragments and recontextualises material from Chopin and his musical influences, alongside his personal relationship with Tytus Woyciechowski.

Three works offering a fascinating insight into Finnissy’s distinctive approach to folk traditions, musical history and reinterpretation.

📅 Tuesday 24 November, 1pm
📍 St Paul’s Hall
🎟️ Standard £20 // Solidarity £26 // Kirklees Resident £18 // Under 30 £6

Link in bio

Photo Credit
Rob Hao © @jameschenvln
Michael Finnissy © Philip Adams

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The kat is bak! New atonal kat night coming to @cafeotodalston on 6 Oct for both chewy and crunchy sounds with Finnissy vs Aries.

Swiss-Philippine sound artist @annieruefenacht aka Annie Aries performs with a customized modular synth, exploring the interplay between generative processes and improvised performance with contemporary electronica and club influences.

Then, the brilliant Mary Dullea, @robhao, @darragh_morgan_violin et al serenade radical British composer and pianist Michael Finnissy, celebrating his 80th year.

Curated by @ted_bennett1979 and @xeniapestova #atonalkat

This month’s cat is wee Molly from next door

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LINE TRACING 6 in HOBART is TOMORROW NIGHT!
- 08.08.26 (doors at 7pm, music from 7.30pm)
- The Long Gallery, @salamancaartscentre (77 Salamanca Pl, Battery Point, TAS)
- TICKETS: https://events.humanitix.com/lt6hobart
See you there!

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I was fortunate to have my composition 'As Grief Sings' be performed at Late Music Concert a couple of weeks ago.

'As Grief Sings' sets a beautiful poem about love and grief, ‘A Prayer’ by Alfred Noyes. Throughout the composition, I experiment with clashing harmonies and sustained piano textures, which create a sense of tension and resonance, representing how grief can build and disperse, and then return unexpectedly.

Ultimately, this piece explores the complexity of grief - at once all-consuming and painful, yet also profoundly beautiful, for grief cannot exist without love.

Thank you so much to Stuart O'Hara and Rob Hao for bringing my piece to life!

#yorkmusic #yorklatemusic #composer #york #musicyork

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A look into the studio with Antony Gray and @robhao for Antony Gray's transcription of Poulenc's “Voyage en Amerique“ for Two Pianos! Experience the world premiere performance on Sunday, 21 June at @kingsplacelondon and the world premiere recording on 26 June!

Information for both in our bio link!

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Don't miss the latest singles and releases from Divine Art and Métier in the New Classical Playlists on Spotify and Deezer!

🎧 Deezer New Classical ➡️ listn.fm/deezerclassical
🎧 Spotify New Classical ➡️ listn.fm/spotifyclassicalnew

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On 26 June, Divine Art is thrilled to present Francis Poulenc: Music for Two Pianos performed by pianists Antony Gray and Rob Hao!

🎶 Add the first single to your library today (and don't miss it on Spotify and Deezer's New Classical Playlists) ➡️ listn.fm/poulencmusicfortwopianos [in bio]

Among the highlights of this superb new release are the first commercial audio recording of Antony Gray’s own transcription for two pianos of Poulenc’s score from the film Voyage en Amerique, the first recording of Poulenc’s two piano reduction of the Concert Champetre, plus the recently discovered Valse de musique de soie.

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UP THIS WEEK AT CAFE OTO: 23-29 MARCH

Lee Scratch Perry’s Black Ark book launch, Tyler Friedman’s album release with The Otolith Group, Klein’s three-day residency spanning acoustic, noise and performance, and DJ Haram live.

MON 23 MAR
MICHAEL FINNISSY’S BIRTHDAY CONCERT w/ ROB HAO
Pianist Rob Hao celebrates one of the UK’s most significant composers with a solo programme centered around Finnissy’s recent piano output alongside selections from his repertoire, tracing the composer’s ongoing conversations with folk music and the ways musical traditions travel. Two recent pieces receive UK premieres.

TUES 24 MAR, 7PM
LEE SCRATCH PERRY BLACK ARK - BOOK LAUNCH (SOLD OUT)
Panel discussion with Martine Rose, Marc Asekhame, David Katz and Chris Peckings moderated by Canan Batur, followed by a curated listening session with Katz showcasing significant Black Ark productions, then sonic responses from guests. The 600-page book documents Perry’s Black Ark Studios in Kingston as both recording site and continuously evolving visual environment. Copies on sale on the night.

WED 25 MAR
THE OTOLITH GROUP & RADICANT_EDITIONS PRESENT TYLER FRIEDMAN + SETH AYYAZ + AIN BAILEY (DJ)
Concert celebrating the release of Tyler Friedman’s LP METLASR, an album for microtonal ensemble and modular synthesizer. Seth Ayyaz presents a new configuration of hQi.LIVE working with tonbak, electroacoustic transformation and generative processes. DJ set from Ain Bailey.

THURS-SAT 26-28 MAR,
KLEIN - THREE-DAY RESIDENCY (SOLD OUT)

THURS: acoustic performance for six guitar + Klein prepared piano set, plus LABAKE, WAYNE and MICA LEVI (DJ).

FRI: Klein noise set with NKISI and TEEZANDOS.

SAT: ILuvLive (2012) talent show, a live open-source musical drama blending real open-mic performances with scripted moments & CHAMBER 45

SUN 29 MARCH
DJ HARAM + CRYSTABEL EFEMENA RILEY + NUNGUJA (DJ)
DJ Haram’s first London show since the release of Beside Myself on Hyperdub, a debut fusing concrète noise, Jersey kicks and politically-charged rap with collaborators including Moor Mother and Armand Hammer. With Crystabel Efemena Riley and Nunguja.

🎟️ Tickets via links in stories / cafeoto.co.uk

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