Robert Zielinski- Kiangardarup Album Launch

A uniquely West Australian piece six years in the making. Kiangardarup is a uniquely Western Australian composition by Robert Zielinski for violin, wooden flute, cello and bouzouki.

A celebratory launch event will take place on the 8th of November 2024 at the Albany Town Hall, just kilometres from the place that inspired the piece: the Torbay Inlet in WA’s Great Southern region, where Robert lived for several years working as a violin maker and touring musician.

This intensely poignant piece transports the listener from the awakening dawn, through the heat of the day to dusk, to rest in a still night under the canopy of the karri forest and a blanket of stars. The evocative journey concludes in the glow of red coals and flames of a campfire. Robert learnt traditional Irish music from the older generation, first in Australia, and then on the West coast of Ireland where he lived for 14 years. He taught at the Galway School of Traditional Irish Music and in 2000 won Ireland’s Michael Coleman Fiddle Player of the Year Award.