With a taste for the dramatic, Anna von Hausswolff takes to Sydney Town Hall’s monumental grand organ. Von Hausswolff’s music is powerful and genre-defying, her vocals majestic.

Her most recent album, the aptly titled Ceremony, is a darkly beautiful piece of work. The songs – which were originally recorded on a century-old church organ in Gothenburg, Sweden – meditate on life and death in an appropriately epic setting.

The Swedish-born, Copenhagen-based artist is as informed by black metal, film scores and opera as she is by the Cocteau Twins, Jefferson Airplane and her own father, a renowned avant-garde artist and composer. Heavy drone bands such as Earth and Barn Owl have been cited as influences as well, which is reflected in her thundering compositions.

With an inventiveness and soaring intensity that belie her 28 years, this strikingly unique performer is not to be missed.

Opening the show is singer-songwriter Aldous Harding, who performs sparse 60s-era folk with a wry sense of humour and eccentric air.