A series of free piano concerts is coming to Sunshine as part of the return of Allegro Non Oppo Out West.
Award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Ania Reynolds will perform original piano pieces in Latin, jazz and classical genres inspired by people, places and moments experienced during her overseas travels in Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Reynolds said the idea of the concerts is to provide cinematic ambience and atmosphere to local op shops.
“People describe that sort of piano music as soothing and meditative and it encourages them to linger a bit longer with the op shopping,” she said.
Reynolds will perform pieces from previous albums as well as her more recent works.
Her 2023 album, Além was influenced by the complex rhythms and groove of Latin America.
Other compositions have been inspired by travels across Asia where Reynolds performed as a saxophonist in a festival in Japan.
“There’s definitely more of a stillness and a contemplateness to how I felt in the ambience of Japan, and later Vietnam. So the pieces from there are very much more meditative in their mood,” she said.
The Allegro Non Oppo Out West piano concerts, supported by Brimbank council, will take place each Saturday in October from noon to 3pm at the Salvos Stores Sunshine, 6/147 Harvester Road, Sunshine.
The concert series will continue throughout the following month with concerts being held each Tuesday in November from 1 to 4pm at Salvos Stores Derrimut, 7/20 Mt Derrimut Road.
