Saturday 25 May, 12-1pm
FREE Event
Experimental Art Music with Hermione Johnson
Hermione Johnson is a pianist and composer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She is best known as an improviser, and with this she has been a significant force in the New Zealand experimental music scene. Her playing centres largely on extended and prepared piano techniques, focusing on the timbral qualities of the instrument and drawing out a range of voices with contrasting patterns and phrases in different registers.
She performs locally with NZ Jazz giants such as Chris O'Connor, Roger Manins and Reuben Derrick. She featured regularly in Dunedin’s Lines of Flight Festival, winning best Performance at the Dunedin Fringe Festival together with Jeff Henderson in 2013.
She has also appeared in Wellington’s Pyramid Power Festival, played the NoWhere Festival in Auckland, the Nownow in Sydney, and the SoundOut in Canberra. Internationally she has played with Magda Mayas, Roger Turner, Tony Buck and Peter Brotzmann.
Her solo set at the Wels Music Unlimited Festival 2019 (Austria) received critical acclaim with Israeli reviewer Eyal Hareuveni describing it as a magnificent set that kept introducing surprising, magical timbres of the piano and left many attentive listeners wishing to see more and more of Johnson.
Her solo album 'Tremble' was released in 2020 under the New York imprint Relative Pitch Records and was named one of the year's 'best solo recordings' by New York City Jazz Record.
Music at Midday returns to Pah Homestead with an hour of free live music from 12 to 1pm each Saturday.
Auckland is rich with a diverse range of creative musical talent and we celebrate this every week. Sit down in the drawing room to enjoy the live music, or peruse the galleries while you listen to the music drifting through the building.
