Composers: Andrián Pertout
Compositions: Luz Meridional
Performers: Michael Kieran Harvey p
Catalogue Number: MOVE MD3435 (2CD)

Andrián Pertout (b. 1963) was born in Santiago, Chile and has lived in Melbourne since 1972. His Luz Meridional (Southern Light) is a set of 24 études for piano dedicated to American composer Henry Cowell (1897-1965), whose mathematical theories regarding pitch and tempo ratios are central to these compositions.

Commissioned by barrister, human rights activist and arts patron Julian Burnside as part of a 2009 State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship that enabled Pertout to make use of the Library’s extensive archival holdings,...