Pianist Alexandros Kyriakopoulos performed as artist Katelijn van den Branden painted live at Boston’s Maliotis Cultural Center. The event brought both artists together in front of the same audience, giving listeners a chance to watch a painting take shape while the music played.
The live format let the audience follow van den Branden’s work from its early stages, with Kyriakopoulos’s piano performance unfolding alongside it. Both artists worked in real time, so the audience could shift its attention between the music and the canvas throughout the performance.
The collaboration was part of the cultural program at the Maliotis Cultural Center, which serves the Greek-American community in the Boston area. The event brought a visual artist into a setting usually reserved for a recital and gave the audience a view of how a painter works, from the first marks on the canvas onward.
