Welcome
Thank you for joining me on my continuous journey to discovery music, art, and life. I am a Canadian pianist, writer, and interdisciplinary artist exploring a variety of genres and mediums to bring new creative initiatives to the community.
My projects explore the role of art in relation to identity, culture, and current social-political issues. My mission as an artist is to continuously lead innovative initiatives across areas of research, education, cultural advocacy, community engagement, social and arts entrepreneurship, and interdisciplinary performing arts. I aim to realize the potential within our community when people from different backgrounds, experiences, and world-views come together in unprecedented forms of creative collaborations. With each word, each note, I aim to bring sincere emotions and curious discoveries to as many individuals as I reach.
Music
About Me
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I’ve seen to the ability of art, artists, and arts initiatives to create jobs and save lives, to empower individuals or entire marginalized and underprivileged populations, to perform small to monumental miracles of communication. Art is a powerful voice that can engage in difficult conversations, controversial debates, and express important messages during periods of divide and hardship. It can reach across time, languages, borders, and cultures to connect people and kindle a shared understanding. As Bernstein said, “Art can affect people so that they are changed – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – then they act in a way that may affect the course of events by the way they vote, behave, and think."
Music can offer such simple yet profound gifts – a memory, a will, a feeling of peace or joy or passion or anguish, a moment of awe, curiosity, magic, of noticing, of understanding, of being understood, or just any feeling that allows us to be in touch with ourselves, with each other, and with the world around us. Those are the gifts I wish to share with as many individuals as I can reach. Sincere intentions and emotions will carry through. They will reach someone.
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Short Biography
Tong Wang (tong-wang.com) is a Canadian pianist recognized for her innovative contributions to performance, research, and community engagement. Her work investigates the intersection of art with identity, culture, and contemporary issues. Tong’s performance highlights include collaborations with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, and ensembles throughout North America and Europe. A versatile artist, she has spearheaded the creation of a new horror anime opera “Labyrinth of Tears” alongside research into the aesthetics of "cuteness" in music, supported by the Canada Council, FRQSC, and SSHRC doctoral grants. Tong’s recent projects have explored multiculturalism, diaspora identity, and climate issues, including her solo tour “我们Us” in Lunenburg, Montreal, Basel, Verbier, and her tour with Duo Perdendosi, “Homecoming”, “Wanting to Start Again”, and “Dark Tales” across Canada, US, and eastern Europe. In 2022, she co-founded the Windwood Music Festival in Airdrie, Alberta to bring classical chamber music to rural communities. In 2024, she performed with Barbara Hannigan, Lyrica Baroque, and Xenia Concerts. with In the upcoming seasons, Tong will be touring her solo recital “Towards the Flame” with Debut Atlantic, as well as the new Canada Council commissioned work by Alice Ho, “Four Impressions of China” with the Dietz-Wang duo in China. Tong is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and the Schulich School of Music. She continues to embark on solo and chamber tours across North America, Europe, and Asia, showcasing her dedication to fostering global connections through art.
Full Biography
Canadian artist Tong Wang engages in a variety of styles, genres, and settings to bring new creative initiatives to the community. As a concert pianist, she has performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, and received awards including the International Chopin Golden Ring Competition, the Canadian Music Competition, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal of Performing Arts, and the Canada Graduate Scholarship. With the Kuma Trio and Z4 Quartet, Tong has performed at venues such as Salle Bourgie, Victoria Hall, Christ Church Cathedral, and presented outreach programs at schools, senior homes, and veteran hospitals during residencies at the Beijing Central Conservatory and the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance.
Tong has been involved in various social and entrepreneurial initiatives including the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Music for Food, New England Conservatory’s Community Partnerships and Performances Program, and In Concert for Cambodia. As a Lincoln Center Stage artist, she has performed educational chamber music concerts featuring a diverse range of genres onboard Holland America Line. In 2016 and 2017, as Executive Director of the arts initiative, “Zenkora Studios”, Tong has led artists across the US and Canada to produce multimedia orchestra concerts that illustrate the stories of an original fantasy universe. In fall of 2020, she performed in a series of solo and chamber concerts at the Lunenburg Academy’s Beethoven 250th Celebration Festival. The summer of 2021, she performed at festivals and workshops in Italy, Germany, Belgium, and France including the Belcanto Festival, International Music Workshop and Festival, Orpheus Instituut, and Festival International de Musiques Universitaires.
Tong is actively exploring the role of the arts in relation to identity, culture, and current social-political issues. Her multimedia performances incorporate writing, art, audio-visual materials and audience interaction. Her violin-piano duo, TAG Duo, debuted the concert in 2021, “Song of Praise”, which explores the complex and multidimensional elements that make up their identities as Chinese-Canadian immigrant musicians. As a 2021 Cohort of the Global Leaders Program, she collaborated with international partners to drive social change and make sustainable impact on the community through music programs.
Tong’s mentors include Kyoko Hashimoto, Bruce Brubaker, and Boris Konovalov. She has studied and performed at music festivals across Europe, Canada, and the U.S., including the Siena Music Festival, Rome Music Festival, Mendelssohn Academy, Holland Music Sessions, Brevard Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Orford Musique, PianoFest in the Hamptons, and Belcanto & Virtuoso. Tong received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Piano Performance from the New England Conservatory and McGill University, where she is currently a Doctorate Fellow. Tong’s graduate research-performance project on “cuteness” as an aesthetic in Japan’s Studio Ghibli music was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She continues to explore the subject of “cuteness” in kawaii metal, lo-fi, and classical music in her doctorate projects. Tong is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Fonds de Recherche du Québec, and SSHRC for the creation of a new horror anime opera, “Labyrinth of Tears”.
Tong toured a recital on multiculturalism, “我们Us” in Lunenburg, Montreal, Basel, and presented the interactive concerts “We’re Not Really Strangers” and “My Neighbours Totoro and Claude!” at the Verbier Festival. In 2022, Tong launched the Windwood Music Festival in Airdrie, Alberta to engage with rural farming communities through classical chamber music. In 2023, Tong toured with Duo Perdendosi across eastern US & Canada and premiered with Duo Incarnadine a new commission by Alice Ho, “Four Impressions of China”. As a recipient of the Canada Council Arts Abroad Touring grant, Tong performed a new program, “Dark Tales”, with Duo Perdendosi across eastern Europe in Spring 2024.
In Summer 2024, Tong performed with Barbara Hannigan in the EQ Young Artist program at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance. Tong toured a solo recital “Towards the Flame” in Houston, Ottawa, and Montreal in Fall 2024, and performed with Duo Perdendosi as guest artists of Lyrica Baroque in New Orleans and Xenia Concerts in Toronto.
Using diverse mediums, Tong aims to share the power of art to reach across time, languages, borders, and cultures to connect people and kindle a shared understanding.
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Debut Atlantic Tour. Solo recital tour. Presented by Debut Atlantic. 2026
China Tour. Cello-violin tour with David Dietz. Featuring Alice Ho’s “Four Impressions of China.” Presented by the Hong Kong University and Central Conservatory of Music Beijing. Hongkong, Beijing, Harbin, China, 2025.
“Towards the Flame.” Solo-recital tour. Works by Scriabin, Chopin, Stravinsky, and a new commission by Alice Ho, “A Manic Ride Through Lollipop Hell”. Houston, Ottawa, Montreal, 2024.
“Multicultural Sounds of Louisiana.” Duo Perdendosi. Presented by Lyrica Baroque. New Orleans, 2024.
“Adaptive Concerts". Duo Perdendosi. Presented by Xenia Concerts. Meridian Hall, Toronto, 2024.
“EQ Gala.” Duo Perdendosi with Barbara Hannigan, Verona Quartet. Lunenburg Academy of Music, 2024.
“Dark Tales” Tour. Violin-piano tour by Duo Perdendosi. An immersive fairy tale experience combining the arts of written, visual, and musical storytelling. Funded by the Canada Council. Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, 2024.
“Resonance of Remembrance.” Guest artists with members of the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra. A Remembrance Day event presented by the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery featuring Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. Red Deer, 2023.
“Rhapsodie Universelle." Collaborative concert celebrating Hungarian music and Canadian multiculturalism. Presented by Foundation Kin, Montreal and Southminister United Church, Ottawa, 2023.
“Da Capo” Tour. Violin-piano tour by Duo Perdendosi. Musical storytelling program on the issues of ‘homecoming’ for Asian Diaspora populations. Featuring works by Ho, Ramnath, Baker, Kats-Chernin, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, New York, Boston, Washington DC, and North Carolina, 2023.
“我们 ‘Us’” Album Tour. Solo piano recital program celebrating traditional cultural heritages and unraveling social issues across the world from China and India to Turkey, Ukraine, and Africa. Musikschule Arlesheim, Basel, Switzerland, and Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2023.
“Four Impressions of China.” Cello-piano duo program featuring new commission by Alice Ho, funded by the Canada Council. Podium Vocale in Den Haag, Netherlands, Cedar House, Montreal, 2023.
“Once Upon a Time in La Napoule”. Solo piano recital and storytelling program in collaboration with La Napoule Art Foundation. Clews Center for the Arts, Château de la Napoule, 2022.
“Fantasy and Memory”. Solo piano recital program featuring works by Scriabin, Dvorak, and incorporate poetry readings and audience co-creation of a fairy-tale. Lunenburg Academy, 2022.
Windwood Music Festival. Chamber music concerts as part of the pilot Windwood Music Festival in rural Airdrie, AB, 2022-23.
“我们 ‘Us’”. Ibid. Lunenburg Academy, Verbier Festival, and McGill University, 2022.
“We’re Not Really Strangers”. Solo piano recital program inspired by role-playing boardgames. Featuring works by contemporary composers. Verbier Festival, 2022.
“My Neighbours Totoro and Claude!” Creative musical storytelling piano four-hands concert featuring works by Hisaishi, Debussy, Ravel, and Fauré. Verbier Festival, 2022.
“Cuteness Speaks up to Cynicism.” Lecture recital featuring works by Joe Hisaishi for Studio Ghibli. Montreal, Tanna Hall, 2022.
“Once Upon a Pumpkin: A Musical Fairy Tale.” Interactive multimedia piano recital and live concert album; works by Mozart, Prokofiev, Liszt, and Wild. Montreal, Redpath Hall, 2021.
“Declassifying Beethoven.” Historical performance on reconstructed Broadwood fortepiano with Beethoven’s ‘Hearing Machine’; Beethoven Piano Sonata Op.110. Presented by Orpheus Instituut. Gent, Belgium, 2021.
“Duo Incarnadine.” Cello-piano duo concerts; works by Bloch, De Falla, and Fazil Say. Presented by FIMU. Belfort, International University Music Festival, 2021.
“Ghiblilane.” Piano duo concert; works by Hisaishi/Chu, Chopin, and Liszt. Presented by UTAU2. Montreal, Kin Experience, 2021.
“Song of Praise.” Violin-piano duo concert tour exploring Chinese immigrant issues; traditional folk pieces and contemporary works by Chinese-Canadian composers Alice Ho and Vivian Fung. TAG Duo. Lunenburg Academy, 2020.
“Quintessentially Schubert.” Schubert Trout Quintet in A Major, D.667. Red Deer Symphony Orchestra. Lacombe: Burman University, 2020:
“Ludwig in Lunenburg.” Performances of Beethoven Piano Sonata, Violin Sonatas, and Piano Trios. Lunenburg: Lunenburg Academy of Music, 2020.
Heritage Concert Series. Performances with Montreal Musicians Collective; works by female, LGBTQ, and marginalized composers such as Henriëtte Bosmans and Louise Farrenc. Montreal: Westmount United Church, 2019-20.
Lincoln Center Stage. Piano quintet concerts; works by Brahms, Dvorak, Schumann, arrangements of crossover genres, and new commissions. Lincoln Center and RWS Entertainment. Holland America Line, 2016-19.
Musical Chairs Chamber Music Festival. Performance of Amy Beach Piano Quintet. Montreal: Chapelle Bon-Pasteur, 2020.
“Poème d’Extase.” Solo recital; works by Mozart, Chopin, Prokofiev, and Scriabin. Montreal: Pollack Hall, 2019.
“Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.3.” Season Finale Concert with the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra and conductor Claude Lapalme. Red Deer: College Art Center, 2018.
Z4 Quartet. Piano quartet residency and concert. Beijing: Central Conservatory, 2018.
“Gala Concert.” Recital presented by American Protégé Concerto Competition. New York: Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, 2013.
“Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1.” Season Opening Concert with the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra and conductor Claude Lapalme. Red Deer: College Art Center, 2012.
“Liszt Piano Concerto No.1.” Performance with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and conductor Alexei Kornienko. Presented by the Canadian Music Competition. Edmonton: Convocation Hall, 2010.
Performances at summer music festivals. Lucca: Virtuoso & Belcanto; Orford: Orford Musique; New York: PianoFest; Lübeck: Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival; Aspen: Aspen Music Festival; Leipzig: Mendelssohn-Hochschule; Bergen: Holland Music Sessions; Rome: Rome Music Festival; Siena: Siena Music Festival; Brevard: Brevard Music Festival, 2012-present.
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“Four Cities.” Fieldwork research in Turkey and China to record, perform, and make a documentary film of a composition by Fazil Say and a new commission from Alice Ho. Canada Council for the Arts, 2023.
“Labyrinth of Tears.” Creator, producer, and librettist for original operetta and triple piano concerto commission, Canada Council for the Arts, 2021-23.
“The Twofold Power of Cuteness in Kawaii Metal, Lo-Fi, and Classical Music.” Doctoral dissertation, McGill University, Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et Culture, 2020-25.
“E-mote.” Publication of photo-narrative essay by Carte Blanche in Issue 39, “Anxiety”, 2020.
“The [blank] Journal.” Interactive sound novel in collaboration with Zenkora Studios, 2020.
“Cuteness Speaks up to Cynicism.” Master thesis on Joe Hisaishi’s music for Studio Ghibli’s animations. Funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2018.
“Zenkora: The Seven Eras.” Executive Director of multimedia orchestra concert; new works of music, drama, dance, poetry, animation, and visual art. Calgary: University Theater, 2017.
“Zenkora: A Brief History.” Executive Producer of inaugural interdisciplinary concert for Zenkora Studios. Boston: Brown Hall, 2016.
“Unconservatory.” Creating an interdepartmental concert exploring unconventional themes and presentational methods. Boston: Brown Hall, 2014.
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WINDWOOD MUSIC FESTIVAL, CO-FOUNDER, AIRDRIE, 2022 - CURRENT
Creating and directing an annual community-centered music festival in rural Alberta; presenting free and accessible classical chamber music concerts for the local audience in creative and unconventional ways.
MCGILL UNIVERSITY, INSTRUCTOR, GRADUATE TEACHING AND RESEARCH ASSISTANT, MONTREAL, 2019 - CURRENT
Teach individual piano performance lessons; lead lectures for undergraduate course “Music as a Profession” and graduate seminar “Piano Chamber Music Skills”; teach entrepreneurial musicianship skills and ensemble performance skills, assist guest speakers, and grade assignments.
MCGILL UNIVERSITY, TEACHING AND LEARNING SERVICES SUPPORT SPECIALIST, MONTREAL, 2022 - CURRENT
Provide support for learning technology projects, investigate and set up technology, document processes and templates for Confluence, answer questions from instructors.
LINCOLN CENTER STAGE, RESIDENT ARTIST, NEW YORK CITY, 2016 – CURRENT
Perform piano quintet programs across various musical genres and advocate for classical music education.
ZENKORA STUDIOS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CALGARY, 2015 – CURRENT
Create and produce multimedia concerts through commissioning new artistic projects in diverse art fields and mediums; direct administrative tasks such as budgeting, fundraising, grant writing, beneficiary relations, and marketing.
MCGILL UNIVERSITY, REMOTE LEARNING ASSISTANT, MONTREAL, 2020 - CURRENT
Provide technical support to faculty members to adapt academic course material for remote delivery, including course mechanics, course content, and using relevant learning management systems technology.
NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY, TEACHING ASSISTANT, BOSTON, 2013 – 2016
Teach keyboard harmony group classes, mark assignments, conduct exams, and tutor undergraduate music theory.
POINT COUNTERPOINT CHAMBER MUSIC, ASSISTANT FACULTY, LAKE DUNMORE, 2015
Provide individual lessons and assist students with daily practicing; accompany the chorus and prepare students for the final concert; perform in the final faculty concert.
NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY, LIBERAL ARTS DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT, BOSTON, 2013 – 2016
Manage administrative tasks and coordinate special events including the annual Course Fair, Creative Arts Festival, Poetry Reading; oversee publication of the course catalog, the poetry chapbook, and the academic journal “Hear Here!”
MUSIC FOR FOOD, MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA INTERN, BOSTON, 2013 – 2014
Manage and update website and social media pages; document audio-visual materials from concerts.
BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT, ADMINISTRATION INTERN, BOSTON, 2013
Support administrative work, prepare and organize scores with music librarian, and assist marketing and concert advertising.
CAESAR’S SCHOOL OF MUSIC, PIANO INSTRUCTOR, EDMONTON, 2008 – 2012
Teach private lessons; prepare students for recitals, competitions, and Royal Conservatory of Music Exams
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2022 – 2025 | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Scholarship
2021 – 2025 | Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et Culture Doctoral Grant
2022 | Canada Council for the Arts “Concept to Realization” Grant
2022 | Sir James Lougheed Doctoral Award of Distinction
2021 | Canada Council for the Arts “Research to Creation” Grant
2020 | Nordic Strings Academy International Music Competition “China Concert Tours” Winner
2019 – 2023 | Schulich School of Music Graduate Excellence Fellowship
2019 | Post Graduate Students’ Society Residency Award
2019 | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Graduate Scholarship
2018 | Alberta Arts Graduate Scholarship
2018 | Mildred Largie Award and Graduate Excellence Fellowship
2017 | McGill Chamber Music Competition Winner
2016 | New England Conservatory George Chadwick Medal
2016 | New England Conservatory Entrepreneurial Musicianship Grant
2013 – 2016 | Alberta Foundation of the Arts Individual Musicianship Grant
2012 – 2015 | Winspear Foundation Scholarship
2011 – 2015 | Ranald and Vera Shean Memorial Scholarship
2014 | National Mondavi Young Artists Competition Finalist
2013 | Susan L. Tajra Music Scholarship
2013 | New England Conservatory Beneficent Society Scholarship
2013 | American Protégé International Concerto Competition First Prize Winner
2012 | Queen’s Golden Jubilee Scholarship for Performing Arts
2012 | Brevard Music Center Zimmerli Piano Competition Second Prize Winner
2011 | Northern Alberta Concerto Competition First Prize Winner
2011 | Alberta Music Festival Concerto Competition First Prize Winner
2011 | Vera Shean 100th Anniversary Scholarship
2010 | 6th International Chopin Golden Ring Competition Third Prize Winner
2010 | Canadian Music Competition Second Prize Winner
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Solo Piano
Bach, Partita No.2
Bach, Partita No.6
Bach, English Suite No.1 in A Major
Mozart, Sonata in F Major K.280
Mozart, Sonata in B-flat Major, K.281
Mozart, Sonata in D Major K.576
Mozart, Sonata in A minor K.310
Beethoven, Sonata No.4 in E-flat Major, Op.7
Beethoven, Sonata No.17 in D minor, Op.31 No.2
Beethoven, Sonata No.21 in C Major, Op.53
Beethoven, Sonata No.28 in A Major, Op.101
Beethoven, Sonata No.31 in A-flat Major, Op.110
Haydn, Sonata in E-flat Major Hob XVI
Chopin, Etudes Op.10 No.1, 2, 3, 4, 12
Chopin, Etudes Op.25 No.1, 2, 5, 6, 12
Chopin, Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op.23
Chopin, Ballade No.4 in F minor, Op.52
Chopin, Scherzo No.3 in C-sharp minor, Op.39
Chopin, Scherzo No.4 in E Major, Op.54
Chopin, Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op.53
Chopin, Mazurkas Op.6
Chopin, Sonata No.2 in B-flat minor, Op.30
Chopin, Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58
Debussy, Pour Le Piano
Ginestera, Tres Piezas Op.6
Alice Ping Yee Ho, A Manic Ride Through Lollipop Hell
Liszt, Transcendental Etudes No.11, No.12
Liszt, Mephisto Waltz No.1
Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody No.13
Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody No.19
Liszt, Ballade No.2
Prokofiev, Sonata No.3 in A minor, Op.28
Prokofiev, Sonata No.7 in B-flat Major, Op.83
Prokofiev, Sonata No.9 in C Major, Op.103
Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet Suite, Op.75
Prokofiev, Selections from Cinderella
Rachmaninoff, Sonata No.2, Op.36
Rachmaninoff, Preludes Op.23 No.4, No.5
Rachmaninoff, Preludes Op.32 No.10, No.11
Rachmaninoff, Polka de W.R.
Ravel, La Valse
Schubert, Sonata in A major D.959
Schumann, Kinderszenen, Op.15
Scriabin, Waltz Op.38
Scriabin, Fantasy Op.28
Scriabin, Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6
Scriabin, Sonata No.4 in F-sharp Major, Op.30
Scriabin, Sonata No.5, Op.53
Scriabin, 6 Preludes Op.13
Stravinsky/Agosti, Firebird
Wild, Virtuoso Etudes on Gershwin Songs
Wild, Reminiscences of Snow White
*all works have been performed in public recital
Concerti
Beethoven, Piano Concerto No.1 in C major
Brahms, Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor
Chopin, Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor
Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue
Liszt, Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor*
Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No.3
Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18
Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, Op.30*
Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Ravel, Piano Concerto in G Major
Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor*
*performed with orchestra
Collaborative
Bach, Sonata for Viola de Gamba in G Major
Brahms, Violin Sonata No.2 in A Major, Op.100
Brahms, Violin Sonata No.3 in D minor, Op.108
Beethoven, Violin Sonata No.1 in D Major, Op.12 No.1
Beethoven, Violin Sonata No.3 in E-flat Major, Op.12 No.3
Beethoven, Violin Sonatas No.4, Op. 23
Beethoven, Violin Sonata No.6 in A Major, Op.30, No.1
Beethoven, Violin Sonata No.7 in C minor, Op.30 No.2
Beethoven, Violin Sonata No.9 “Kreutzer” in A Major, Op.47
Beethoven, Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69
Beethoven, Cello Sonata No.4 in C Major, Op.102 No.1
Chopin, Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65
Debussy, Cello Sonata in D Minor
De Falla, 7 Canciones Populares Españolas for Cello and Piano
Farrenc, Cello Sonata Op.48
Fauré, Violin Sonata No.1, Op.13 in A Major
Franck, Sonata for Violin and Piano in A
Fung, Birdsong for Violin and Piano
Ho, Four Seasons for Violin and Piano
Kadály, Sonatina for Cello and Piano
Martinu, Slovak Variations for Cello and Piano
Janáček, Violin Sonata
Janáček, Pohádka “Fairy Tale” for Cello and Piano
Poulenc, Cello Sonata
Prokofiev, Cello Sonata
Prokofiev, Violin Sonata No.1 in F minor, Op.80
Prokofiev, Violin Sonata No.2 in D Major, Op.94a
Rachmaninoff, Cello Sonata, Op.19
Ravel, Violin Sonata No.2 “Blues”
Say, “Four Cities” for Violin and Piano
Schumann, Violin Sonata No.1 in A minor, Op.105
Shostakovich, Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40
Chamber
Beach, Piano Quintet in F-sharp Minor, Op.67
Beethoven, Piano Trio in C minor, Op.1 No.3
Beethoven, Variations in E-flat major Op.44
Beethoven, Piano Trio in D Major, Op.70 No.1 “Ghost”
Beethoven, Piano Trio Op.121a “Kakadu Variations”
Brahms, Piano Trio No.2 in C Major
Brahms, Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op.25
Brahms, Piano Quartet No.3 in C Minor, Op.60
Brahms, Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34
Debussy, Piano Trio in G Major
Dvorak, Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, “Dumky"
Dvorak, Piano Quintet No.2, Op.81
Fauré, Piano Quartet No.1 in C minor, Op.15
Fauré, Piano Quartet No.2 in G minor
Haydn, Piano Trio in G Major “Gypsy”
Mahler, Piano Quartet in A minor
Mozart, Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, K.478
Mozart, Piano Quartet No.2 in E-flat Major, K.493
Mendelssohn, Piano Trio No.1 in D minor
Mendelssohn, Piano Trio No.2 in C minor
Poulenc, Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet
Ravel, Piano Trio in A minor
Saint-Saëns, Piano Trio No.2 in E minor, Op.92
Schoenfield, Café Music
Schubert, Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 “Trout”
Schumann Clara, Piano Trio in G minor
Schumann, Piano Quintet, Op.44
Schumann, Piano Quartet, Op.47
Shostakovich, Piano Trio No.1 Op.8
Shostakovich, Piano Trio No.2 in E minor, Op. 67
Shostakovich, Piano Quintet, Op.57
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Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, QC
2020 – 2025 | Doctor of Music in Performance
2019 – 2020 | Graduate Diploma in Performance
2017 – 2019 | Master of Music in Piano Performance
Global Leaders Program
2021 | Executive Graduate Certificate
New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
2012 – 2016 | Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance
Private Teachers
2017 – 2023 | Kyoko Hashimoto
2012 – 2016 | Bruce Brubaker
2007 – 2012 | Boris Konovalov
Summer Festivals and Institutes
2022| Verbier Festival: Creative Project Development Residency
2021 | Virtuoso & Belcanto Festival: Boris Berman, Till Fellner, Yejin Gil
2021 | Orpheus Institute: Beethoven Academy
2019 | Orford Musique: André Laplante, Ronan O’Hora, Anton Nel
2019 | PianoFest in the Hamptons: Paul Schenly, Alexander Korsantia
2018| Lunenburg Academy: Mark Fewer, Walter Delahunt, Adrian Brendel
2016 | Schleswig-Holstein: Andrzej Jasinski,
2016 | Aspen Music Festival: Rita Sloan, Hung-Kuan Chen
2014 | International Mendelssohn Academy: Pavel Gililov, Jacques Rouvier
2014 | Holland Music Sessions: Boris Berman
2013 | Siena Music Festival: Rita Sloan
2012 | Brevard Music Festival: Norman Krieger
Good evening, everyone. Thank you all for gathering here tonight to celebrate a special milestone with me - professionally and personally. This is my final doctoral recital, marking 8 years at McGill. This is also a deeply personal program.
All these pieces are associated with some part of my past that I am still learning to come to terms with, some of the darkest moments I want to redefine, and also some of the most trying and most courageous moments I want to honour again.
That being said, it’s funny how while preparing for this recital, a testament to my strength and growth, I’m again and again astonished and humbled by my limitations: how certain demons still come back, how we need to learn to live with them, face them again and again.
So this program has become more of a story of courage. And acceptance.