General Admission £20 | Complimentary for Patrons
In Partnership with Steinway & Sons
Piano*Grafik presents an artistic collaboration, in a concert setting, between pianists Paloma León and y’Sohnt and interdisciplinary artist PPPANIK. Together, León, y’Sohnt and PPPANIK explore a shared emotional experience, creating a dialogue between sound and image within a territory that’s both deeply personal, human and technological. Intended to explore what happens when structure gives way to emergence, when rigorous systems produce moments of spontaneity, vulnerability, and beauty, in ways that feel less like an accompaniment and more like co-creation, the result of this collaboration is an immersive audiovisual experience where technology becomes poetic and classical traditions are reimagined through contemporary digital language.
Paloma León is a Los Angeles–born, London-based contemporary classical composer and pianist known for her debut album Piano Music for Movies. León is recognised for composing complex, memory-based piano works that both honour and subvert the rigour of her classical training. Her music often reimagines material drawn from pop and hip-hop, which she views as a repurposing of classical traditions, a kind of double recycling.
Her work spans multiple disciplines, including scoring for fashion shows such as Saul Nash (Milan Fashion Week) and Daniel Del Valle (London Fashion Week), as well as television and other media. León has also debuted original compositions at The Royal Albert Hall and has worked as a pianist at The Royal Festival Hall (BAFTA). Her influences range from Frédéric Chopin, George Gershwin, and John Adams to Arthur Russell and Dr. Dre.
y’Sohnt is a Guyanese-British composer, multidisciplinary performance artist and model whose work focuses primarily to the interaction between the self and the world – often pertaining to (but almost never explicitly) colonialism, gender, class, ethnicity and other prominent eternal zeitgeist questions of the times. Anecdotes, lived experiences, intersectionalism and interpersonal relationships are at the centre of her artistry, which realises itself through ritual displays, dance pieces, chamber works, piano solos and poetry.
PPPANIK is a digital artist specialising in generative and audio-reactive processes. Through experimentation and play, they explore the shifting boundaries between nature, technology and queer perspectives.
