Matthew Hindson’s piano quartet Epic Diva heads up Kathryn Selby & Friends’ seven-date Australian tour in November 2025, calling at Canberra, Bowral, Turramurra, Melbourne, and Adelaide, and presenting the piece alongside music by Fauré and Brahms.

The 6-minute work is an arrangement of the finale of Hindson’s 2006 Piano Trio, with new material added. It was created with the intention of providing an explosive encore-style piece, and its rhythmic and harmonic surface reflects Hindson’s longstanding love of 70s disco. Its propulsive and cheerful mood is not without qualification, however, as darker and more pensive reflections occasionally intrude on the festivities; the work’s movement between dark and light – created from an interplay of major and minor 7th chords – recalls the shifting moods of Schubert’s music (a key influence on other works by Hindson). 

In 2022 the group toured Hindson’s piano trio 1915 as part of their In the Shadow of War programme. The introspective 6-minute work, an arrangement of the first movement of Song and Dance for string orchestra, imagines the terror faced by the young men sent off to fight in the First World War.