Keep up to date with all upcoming performances for Sonya Lifschitz nationally and internationally for 2026 here.

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Sonya will be performing a variety of programs with exciting new collaborators at interesting and prestigious venues.

In this critically acclaimed reimagining of George Crumb’s groundbreaking  Makrokosmos, Book 1, piano maverick and virtuoso Sonya Lifschitz is joined by performance artist Christine Johnston (The Kransky Sisters) as Madame Lark to unleash their duelling scores. Part cabaret, part recital, this audacious reinterpretation places Crumb’s zodiac-inspired fantasy pieces amidst the sounds of the Antipodes.

GEORGE CRUMB’s modern masterpiece comes to life as part of the 2026 Monash University Performing Arts Centres’ Sound Gallery Series.
Iconoclasts Sonya Lifschitz (piano) and Christine Johnston (vocals, musical saw, OHP) bring George Crumb’s modern masterpiece to life as part of the 2026 Monash University Performing Arts Centres’ Sound Gallery Series and their Monash University Artists-in-Residence. 

See Sonya Lifschitz's previous shows nationally and internationally over the past 11 years.

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Scroll through the seasons to see the artists with whom Sonya has collaborated and the prestigious venues where she has performed.

Dec 10, 2025   

Crumb’s Lyre (George Crumb: Makrokosmos Book 1) with Christine Johnston

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Intermedial Composition Network’s Website and Podcast Launch

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Esme Timbery Creative Practice Lab, UNSW, Sydney...

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July 19-21, 2024                   

Stradbroke Chamber Music Festival, principal artist

Stradbroke Island (QLD)

May 6, 2024

So Much Myself: Piano Portraits by Robert Davidson

Riverside Theatres, Sydney
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Nov 11, 2023

Above/Below (with Christine Johnston)

Northern Rivers Conservatorium / Musica Viva Australia

Lismore

October 1-17, 2023

The SURGE Tour with Ensemble Offspring

Sydney / regional NSW / Victoria...

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18 September, 2022
Sonya Lifschitz and Andrew Goodwin in recital
Tyalgum Festival
 

10 August, 2022
CREATIVE WOMEN by Robert Davidson (World Premiere)
Melbourne Recital Centre – Elisabeth Murdoch Hall...
 

27-30 December, 2021
Mirage: Creative Development

with Martin del Amo
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

5 December, 2021
ABOVE/BELOW
Sonya Lifschitz and Christine Johnston
UKARIA...
 

17 October, 2019
Stalin’s Piano by Robert Davidson
Melbourne International Arts Festival
Elizabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

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29 September, 2019
Guest Artist with Australian Piano Quartet
World Premier of Trial and Error by Jack Symonds for Viola, Cello and Piano
UTS: University of Technology Sydney ...

October 5, 2018
Free Play: Making Time/Taking Time
UNSW New Music Collective perform works by Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Louis Andriessen, Frederic Rzewski and Alvin Lucier

Esme Timbery Creative Practice Lab, UNSW
 

September 16, 2018
Life Cycle with Gian Slater and Zoe Knighton

Macedon Music ...
 

November 29, 2017, 6pm

Melbourne Recital Centre
Press, Play - Sweet is the Torment

November 17, 2017, 6pm
Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith Uni
ABOVE/BELOW
Tchaikovsky – The Seasons, Op. 37
Crumb – Makrokosmos Vol. 1 Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac Poetry by Max Lifschitz ...

December 16, 2016, 7:30pm
Bargemusic, Brooklyn, NY
Above/Below

Masterworks Series
Tchaikovsky – The Seasons, Op. 37a
Crumb – Makrokosmos, book 1

Poetry by Max Lifschitz

December 2, 2016, 7pm & 8:30pm
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Sonya & Lisa play Infinite Variations...

October 8-25, 2015
Melbourne Festival
Press, Play and Angela Cavalieri - Canzone 

@ fortyfivedownstairs
 

October 9-10, 2015
Port Fairy Spring Festival
Press, Play and Angela Cavalieri – Canzone

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