Musica Viva has announced the participants in its 2018-2019 FutureMakers program. Pianist Aura Go and percussionist Matthias Schack-Arnott will follow the inaugural FutureMakers – Arcadia Winds – to become the second stream of musicians to go through the two-year program. Over the course of the program, the participants will develop a music-centred project that will be ready for premiere and touring in the season after they leave.

Pianist and conductor Aura Go has studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, Australian National Academy of Music, Yale and is currently a doctoral candidate at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. “For the last nine years, I’ve been living overseas, first in the USA, and currently in Finland,” she said. “FutureMakers offers me an extraordinary chance to build a professional life in my home country, while maintaining an active performance schedule in Europe. I’m passionate about education, about contemporary music, about becoming an advocate for an artform I love, both with my work, and as a writer and spokesperson.”

Pianist Aura Go. Photo © Keith Saunders

Aura Go has performed with most of the major Australian orchestras – she was soloist in the Australian premieres...