Xenia Hanusiak is a writer and critic who is read in publications such as the Financial Times, Chicago Tribune and Music & Literature. With a lifelong dedication to the arts as an opera singer and curator, Xenia embraces the many styles and traditions of the lands where she lives, works, and travels: New York, Paris and Australia. Her work is appreciated at festivals from National Sawdust and BAM (New York) to the Beijing Music Festival. In 2022, Xenia co-curated ‘Currents of Change’ for Salzburg Global Seminar. She is committed to the role of women in the arts, and her signature festival Songlines for a New World presents virtuosic women from Australia, Iran and Ukraine.
Pleasures and pastimes
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Feel free to stop striving: learn to relish being an amateur
When I rekindled my relationship with the piano and tapped into my inner amateur, I discovered a quiet room of my own
by Xenia Hanusiak
Music
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Music is a philosophy, rich in ideas that language cannot say
Musical thinking offers a means for composing our lives and a philosophical foundation that embraces both sound and silence
by Xenia Hanusiak