Zubin Kanga is a fearless advocate of the new and unknown. For over a decade, he has been at the forefront of curating and creating interdisciplinary musical programmes which seek to explore and redefine what it means to be a performer through interactions with new technologies.
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Events
Ghost in the Machine
Zubin Kanga: Ghost in the Machine + After Dark
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 8pm
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
The trailblazing pianist, composer and technologist performs a worldpremiere by AI pioneer George Lewis and works by Nwando Ebizie, Alex Paxton andBen Nobuto.
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre (London)
Featured Album
Cyborg Pianist (NMC Recordings)
What is the future of the piano? This is a question that pianist, composer, and technologist Zubin Kanga has explored for over a decade now and one which he investigates in his first solo release on NMC, Cyborg Pianist. Inviting some of the most inventive and forward-thinking composers of today to incorporate a host of cutting-edge technological alterations and extensions into their new works for solo piano, Kanga develops a new ‘cyborg sonic identity’ for an instrument that has remained largely unchanged for the past century. Commissioned as part of Kanga’s multi-year music and research project Cyborg Soloists, Cyborg Pianist is a treasure trove of technological innovation as six distinct compositional voices unlock new possibilities in piano composition and performance.
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Cyborg Pianist
Piano and Multimedia
This piano and multimedia programme expands the possibilities of the instrument using cutting-edge technology from Cyborg Soloists industry partners.
