Her artistic piano practice embraces performance, improvisation, composition, education, commissioning and curation. She has been a strong advocate of Australian new music for 30 years and has received numerous awards and grants, including a Churchill Fellowship, a Helpmann Award and an APRA AMCOS 2019. Gabriella is artistic director of Soundstream New Music, founded in 1993. She is co-creator and composer of the groundbreaking work VR WAVE, premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2022 and exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia. In October 2022, Gabriella will present new Australian works for piano and electronics in Europe.
The aim of this project is to explore the creation of a symbiotic relationship between the Electric Cristal (EC) and the Roli MIDI keyboard, based on feedback to create a work on time, using both instruments. The Electric Cristal is an instrument created by Dylan Crismani (Australia). The project relies on microphone amplification and is microtonally tuned.