[2] Kanga has been an active chamber musician since joining Australian contemporary music group Ensemble Offspring in 2005 at the age of 22, of which he remains a member.
[3][4] He played with the Marsyas Trio between 2017 and 2018, during which time they recorded In the Theatre of Air, an album of music by women composers for piano, flute, and cello.
[6][7] Notable solo performances of Kanga's include Beat Furrer's concerto for two pianos Nuun with Rolf Hind and the London Sinfonietta at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in January 2011 and Thomas Adès's Concerto Conciso at the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall in 2013, when he also appeared alongside the composer in a two-piano arrangement of Conlon Nancarrow's Studies Nos.
[11][12][13] His own compositional output has included Dead Leaves, which he premiered on ABC Classic radio in 2017, and was selected to represent Australia at the 2018 International Rostrum of Composers.
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[16][17] In the same year, Kanga premiered Brett Dean's Rooms of Elsinore at the Extended Play new music marathon alongside his own composition Spider Web Castle.
[18] Kanga has performed several times at London Contemporary Music Festival, premiering Michael Finnissy's Hammerklavier – Part 1 and Alwynne Pritchard's Heart of Glass, as well as performing his realisation of Julius Eastman's Gay Guerrilla at London Contemporary Music Festival alongside Hind, Siwan Rhys, and Eliza McCarthy, which was later featured (uncredited) in video installation The Third Part of the Third Measure.
His Melbourne Festival performance of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes was described in The Age as "a blaze of retrospective creative brilliance", while his 2019 Australian tour Piano Ex Machina was described by Limelight magazine as "a rewarding experience, rich in possibility, infused with curiosity and playfulness, and not afraid to explore conceptual and expressive horizons well beyond the boundaries of a traditional piano recital".
Ratcliffe, Robert, Jon Weinel and Zubin Kanga: "Mutations (megamix): Exploring Notions of the 'DJ set', 'Mashup' and 'Remix' through Live Piano-based Performance", eContact!, Canadian Electroacoustic Community, 2011.