Open Horizons CD album
Open Horizons is an album of the complete piano works of Keyna Wilkins recorded by internationally acclaimed pianist Jeanell Carrigan in 2025, published by Australia's home of new music, Wirripang. Composed from 2001 - 2023, the collection comprises her books Sky Pieces (2011), Reverie Collection (2019), So What Bach (2020) her piano sonata Rainforest Reverie (2023) and Star Dance (2018, part of Australian Women Composers' Anthology).
Stylistically broad with aspects of jazz, Neo-Impressionism and Neo- Romanticism, each piece and movement is a universe within itself. Sky Pieces is 8 miniatures with lyrical and engaging melodies, each piece embodies different aspects such as clouds, wind, blue skies, fog, breeze and distant horizons. Reverie Collection is 5 miniatures based on Keyna Wilkins’ improvised piano solos and film and theatre music compositions. Star Dance was originally composed for Pena Flamenca ensemble in 2012 and uses aspects of the flamenco buleria dance. So What Bach is 6 pieces based on her jazz influenced improvisations to JS Bach classics. Rainforest Reverie is a 3 Movement piano sonata set to the soundscapes of the Australian Daintree Rainforest and inspired by Australian rainforest animals and plants. This work was premiered by New York Times highly-commended pianist Shannon Wettstein at St Cloud State University in Minnesota USA in 2023.
The album was recorded at ACO Studios Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay by Bob Scott with mixing and mastering by Elena Quaviva with cover photo art by indigenous photographer Wayne Quilliam, with permission.
SO WHAT BACH - solo piano jams on JS Bach classics
This album has been reviewed by Jazz Journal UK who described it as "Wilkins is a powerhouse player with taste. Her Bach re-interpretations are meetings of minds": https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2021/02/14/keyna-wilkins-so-what-bach-six-piano-jams-on-bach-classics/
EPHEMERA QUARTET: Blackholes and Modulations
"Blackholes and Modulations" is Ephemera's second album. Ephemera is a musical exploration of celestial landscapes such as pulsars, craters, planetary atmospheres, stars, sun and void. The ensemble is led by Keyna Wilkins (piano/flute/compositions) with Elsen Price (double bass), Carl St Jacques (viola) and Will Gilbert (trumpet). www.ephemeraensemble.com
Sydney Morning Herald reviewed the album: "Ephemera is always outward-reaching conceptually. The quartet can achieve a surprising orchestral sweep. Music of peculiar depth and mystery that somehow evades the laws of gravity"
Limelight Magazine reviewed the album: "Terrific, rich, pulsating, reverberant...sophisticated and compelling....vivid and colourful."
YULUGI: Chasing Stars To The Mother Tree
The album concept is based on the Gamilaroi star-lore myth that Berriberri (or the constellation Orion) set out in pursuit of the Miai-miai (or the star cluster Pleiades) and cornered them in a mother tree where they were transformed into yellow and white cockatoos. Yulugi is a collaboration between leading didgeridoo player Gumaroy Newman and composer-musician Keyna Wilkins. www.yulugi.com
Reviewed by Sydney Morning Herald: "Yulugi is Instantly engaging, with Gumaroy Newman's arresting voice and yidaki, leading us deep into his ancestral culture, in dialogue with Keyna Wlkins' piano and luminous flutes."
Reviewed by Fine Music FM: "This is virtuoso playing, worthy of any Australian collection."
Guluu: For Magpie and Violin
"Guluu for Violin and Magpie" was composed by Keyna Wilkins and premiered by Airena Nakamura at Sydney Opera House Mar 2021. Based on the First Nations Mandalbingu and Gamilaroi legend about wild magpies, with grateful permission to use it. Sheet music published by Wirripang. Commissioned by Dianne Finnegan. Recordings of magpies from Wild Ambience (wildambience.com).
EPHEMERA TRIO: Orbits and Riffs
A musical exploration of celestial landscapes, merging the sound worlds of jazz and contemporary classical and set to real space sounds. Compositions/Piano/Flute: Keyna Wilkins, Double Bass: Elsen Price, Trumpet: Will Gilbert. www.ephemeraensemble.com Recorded at A Sharp Studios, Riverwood, NSW Australia, 2017.
Reviewed by Sydney Morning Herald: "Arresting, genre-blurring, music of massive breadth and high drama."
Reviewed by Jazz And Beyond: "Full of sonic textures and infinite possibility. This is one of the true concept albums of recent years"
Reviewed by The Music Trust: "Highly evocative and adventurous"
AIR IN MOTION: solo flute compositions and improvisations
Flute works composed and performed by Keyna Wilkins influenced by flamenco, jazz, impressionism and thoughts. Sheet music published by Wirripang. Recorded at A Sharp Studios in Riverwood, NSW, Australia 2017.
JAZZ REVERIE: solo piano improvisations
Exploratory, open-minded solo piano improvisations. Recorded at AIM Studios, Sydney, AUSTRALIA 2012.
KEYS ACROSS THE SKY: solo piano compositions and improvisations
Piano solos performed and composed by Keyna Wilkins, influenced by impressionism, jazz and flamenco. Sheet music published by Wirripang. Recorded at A Sharp Studios, Riverwood, NSW, Australia 2017.
IBID: Spaces In Between - improvisations for piano/flute and drumset
IBID is Keyna Wilkins (piano/flute) and Shane Carpini (drumset). Together they play stream of consciousness improvisations and their own compositions inspired by philosophy, astronomy and human behaviour. Wilkins is an Australian/British composer-musician and was one of three finalists for the Australian Art Music Awards for Individual Excellence in 2021 and 2018. Carpini is a prolific drummer and composer. ibidartist.com
HOPE - Mohammad Maleki and Keyna Wilkins
HOPE is a collaboration between Keyna Wilkins and Iranian refugee poet Mohammad Ali Maleki, who was detained for 9 years on Manus Island prison by the Australian government for seeking protection. It is a collection of five of his spoken poems set to compositions and improvisations of Keyna Wilkins on flute and piano. Learn more about him here: https://www.mohammadalimaleki.com/
SOL ROSEN COMIC SHOP
Funny Bird Comic Series 1 (digital) by Sol Rosen
Funny Bird is a very funny and optimistic bird. He has always thought the world was full of joy and happiness. But what happens when a bird names "Evil Bird" attacks him after his first attempt at flying? Will his personality or thoughts change in any way? Or will he just think that it's ok? Dive into this epic journey by simply turning to the first page! Good luck!
Written and drawn by 10 year old Sol Rosen. www.solrosencreative.com
Funny Bird Comic Series 1 (booklet) by Sol Rosen
Funny Bird is a very funny and optimistic bird. He has always thought the world was full of joy and happiness. But what happens when a bird names "Evil Bird" attacks him after his first attempt at flying? Will his personality or thoughts change in any way? Or will he just think that it's ok? Dive into this epic journey by simply turning to the first page! Good luck!
Written and drawn by 10 year old Sol Rosen. www.solrosencreative.com
Funny Bird Comic Series 2 (booklet) by Sol Rosen
Funny Bird has gone through many, many dangerous things already, and he's about to go through MORE! The multi-verse is braking because the time machine is broken! How will they save the universe and everyone within and what threats do they find on the way? You can find out by simply turning to the first page!
Written and drawn by 11 year old Sol Rosen. www.solrosencreative.com
Funny Bird Comic Series 2 (digital) by Sol Rosen
Funny Bird has gone through many, many dangerous things already, and he's about to go through MORE! The multi-verse is braking because the time machine is broken! How will they save the universe and everyone within and what threats do they find on the way? You can find out by simply turning to the first page!
Written and drawn by 11 year old Sol Rosen. www.solrosencreative.com
