Following the success of their internationally acclaimed work Stalin’s Piano, virtuoso pianist Sonya Lifschitz and composer Robert Davidson deliver So Much Myself: Piano Portraits, an audiovisual epic that weaves solo piano, video, archival audio, and narrative in a complex, interconnecting tapestry of stories celebrating discovery. 

A millennium of female artists, scientists and leaders come to life, their words made musical. The voices of Patti Smith, Frida Kahlo, Marie Curie, Nina Simone, Clara Schumann’s students, Aunty Delmae Barton, Greta Thunberg, and other adventurers are joined by Sonya’s narrative voice, including a conversation with her Ukrainian grandmother and great aunt about their escape from Kyiv in 1941 as Nazi bombs fell.

So Much Myself: Piano Portraits is an exploration of big themes in history, shining the light on people bringing their fullest selves to the challenges of convention, danger, inertia and prejudice. This musical portrait gallery of female creators will be performed at the Conservatorium Theatre on Saturday September 21 as part of Brisbane Festival.