Ronan Apcar is a pianist, musician, and composer with a reputation of versatility, edge, and tenacity. His love for music across many styles – jazz to the avant-garde, contemporary art music to house music – translates into his open-minded, exciting, and unique work as a musician. Described as "a talent beyond his age" (Limelight Magazine) and “a force to be reckoned with” (ClassikON), Ronan is known for his diverse musicmaking practice that includes performing, composing, arranging, improvising, curating, and collaborating.
Ronan performs in an eclectic mix of concerts and festivals in both intimate and large-scale venues across metropolitan and regional NSW, Victoria, and the ACT. In addition to the full range of the piano, his practice has grown to include electronics and other instruments in experimental, improvised, and collaborative settings both musical and interdisciplinary.
Various recent projects range from concerto soloist with Ensemble Apex to a multimedia DJ set for the opening of Machine Hall; collaborative performances in festivals including Sydney Festival, Canberra International Music Festival, Shepparton Festival; with organisations such as Moorambilla Voices, Luminescence Chamber Singers, Gondwana Voices, Opera in the Country; at venues ranging from rural Victorian town halls to the National Gallery of Victoria and the Sydney Opera House; residencies at Bundanon and The Old School, Mt Wilson; commissions from the Australian National Academy of Music and the National Carillon; audiovisual works with photographer Peter Hislop and videographer Agatha Yim (PolyPhonic Pictures); and forthcoming records include a solo electronic improvised EP, concerto recordings with Ensemble Apex, and the debut release for the group improvised project Tsiran. He appears as both soloist and collaborator in grassroots musical series playing experimental, electronic, and improvised music. Ronan is also the pianist with Ensemble Offspring.
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Fantasies, Op. 116 No. 4
LEO ORNSTEIN
Suicide in an Airplane
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Fantasies, Op. 116 No.5
GERARD BROPHY
Abraço
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Fantasies, Op. 116 No. 6
FREDERIC RZEWSKI
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Fantasies, Op. 116 No. 7