Geoffrey Hill is a pianist from New Zealand, currently residing in the United States. He was born and raised in Auckland where he attended Westlake Boys High School. While there, he was heavily involved in their music program, being the pianist for the Big Band, playing percussion in both the Concert Band and Symphony Orchestra, and singing in both the mixed choir (Choralation) and the lower voice choir (Voicemale), which were all frequent award-winners at the KBB Music Festival and Big Sing National Festival respectively. Outside of Westlake, he led a jazz quintet, named Big Mak, which won platinum at the Auckland Jazz Competition and gold twice at the Tauranga National Jazz Competition, where he won Best Keyboardist in 2022.

Geoffrey was a frequent award-winner at the North Shore Performing Arts Piano Competition, winning 1st Place in 3 competitions. He also competed in the New Zealand Chamber Music Contest twice, being a national finalist and Gold winner in 2021, and a regional finalist in 2023. At the 2023 KBB Music Festival, he performed his own composition, Sound and Vision, a piano concerto with wind orchestra in the competition, as the soloist. Near the end of that year, he moved to the United States for post-graduate piano studies at the Interlochen Arts Academy for a year under Dr. Kara Huber, where he was a recipient of the Fine Arts Award at the end of the year. He is currently a sophomore pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, and will be attending the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado in July. In addition to classical piano, Geoffrey has been active as a composer, winning the 2022 National Composition Award at the NZ Chamber Contest, and aspires to be a conductor when he is older.

Programme:

-“Everything In Its Right Place” from ‘Kid A’ - Radiohead

-Fantasia, Allemande and Courante from Partita No. 3 in A Minor, BWV 827 - J.S. Bach

-“Paranoid Android” from ‘OK Computer’ - Radiohead

-Intermezzo No. 2 in B-flat Minor from 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117 - J. Brahms

-“Karma Police” from ‘OK Computer’ - Radiohead

-Impromptu No. 1 in F Minor from Four Impromptus, D. 935 (Op. 142) - F. Schubert

-“Daydreaming” from ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ - Radiohead

-Choral Prelude “Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein”, BWV 734 - J.S Bach/F. Busoni

—Intermession—

-“Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” from ‘In Rainbows’ - Radiohead

-Impromptu No. 3 in B-flat Major from Four Impromptus, D. 935 (Op. 142) - F. Schubert

-“Jigsaw Falling into Place” from ‘In Rainbows’ - Radiohead

-Etude No. 4: Fanfares - György Ligeti

-“Exit Music (For a Film)” from ‘OK Computer’ - Radiohead

-Rhapsody in Blue (arr. for Solo Piano) - George Gershwin