2 weeks till album release! Read the full story here. It’s been a humbling project, almost 1 year in the making - exploring the lands of Turkey, meeting its generous and warm people, listening to their stories, their instruments, and collaborating with the wonderful Alice Ping Yee Ho to capture the sounds, fragrances, landscapes, and memories of my parent’s hometowns - Hunan and Heilongjiang.
Read More2023 has taken us from Paris, Basel, Den Haag, Arlesheim, to Vienna, Budapest, Pesaro (Europe tour), back to Airdrie, Jasper (WMF Mini), across Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, New York, Providence, Washington DC, Apex (DP “Da Capo” tour), to Lunenburg (LAMP residency), to Seattle, to Bodrum, Ankara, Sivas, Trabzon (Turkey tour), to Rhodes, Athens, back to Airdrie (WMF 23), back to Montreal, Ottawa, Red Deer (RDSO), then to Houston, Apex, and finally … ending here once again at home, Airdrie.
Read MoreExcited to share that I have been selected as finalist for the Prix Spéciaux category “Inclusion et diversité Montréal” of the Gala Prix Opus Édition 27. The Gala will be held on February 4, 2024 at Salle Bourgie.
Many thanks to my family, friends, colleagues, mentors, and many dear supporters for being a part of my journey to continue bringing music to the world.
Read MoreFlying back home to winter wonderland for a week to perform Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra musicians. Then returning for the first Skye’s Salon of the season, “The Tales that Stay With Us,” followed by a series of concerts with the newly formed Mountain Time Trio, a lecture recital with Duo Perdendosi for the McGill “Climate Crisis & Climate Actions” course, and an exciting collaboration between Le Pub Classique and the Sapphonix Collective!
Read MoreThe darker side of fairy tales.
Read MoreHello dear friends,
Happy September! I hope everyone has enjoyed a wonderful summer - whether adventurous or lazy, fruitful or restorative. Me, I have finally returned to my humble castle in the sky here in Montreal, and am getting ready for the year ahead.
Read MoreLeah and I will be off to Turkey in less than 2 weeks for the first part of our documentary tour! We’ll be spending three weeks in Bodrum, Ankara, Sivas, and Trabzon exploring the culture and landscapes of the four cities portrayed in Fazil Say’s sonata for cello and piano. Our recording and mini tour (Montreal/Toronto) is scheduled for mid September and we’re aiming to release the album and documentary music videos by holidays of 2024! Featuring the world premiere of a deeply personal work written for us by Alice Ho, “Four Impressions of China”.
Read MoreRecipe cards. Tree. Music.
Mementos, proof of the magic that we were a part of. That Wednesday night. The stories and energies exchanged there that reaches back so much longer, deeper than we can recall.
We both cried. Crying a lot doesn’t take away from the intensity of crying again, each time we are blessed and burdened by feeling this world, this music. I was fine for most of the time leading up to the concert, but that morning, while listening to the melodies of Wong’s “A Dream of the Motherland”, this wave of tenderness, of bitter painful emotion mixed with fire and ice and injustice and futile loving hopefulness - it all hit me. I knew what I wanted to say. Just another simple story, as always, the same simple story, that still needs to be told, vocalized, remembered, honoured, however briefly.
Read MoreMay 29 - June 24 Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
6/2 - 6/3
Adjudicating the Nova Scotia Provincial Music Festival
6/7 @ 7:00 PM
Lamp’s “A Little Light Music”
Featuring the Verona Quartet, Tong Wang and Maitreyi Muralidharan
6/11 @ 2:30 PM
Schumann Quintet with the Verona Quartet
6/14 @ 7:00 PM
NOW Festival: Tong Wang & Maitreyi Muralidharan “Save Our Old Forests”
Duo Perdendosi presents a new special program exploring today’s highly prevalent issues: nature, destruction, and hope.
6/23 - 6/24
NOW Festival World Premiers
July 13 - 26 Bodrum, Ankara, Sivas, Trabzon, Turkey
Duo Incarnadine “Four Cities” documentary filming part 1: Turkey. Sandwiched between visits to Switzerland and Greece.
August 13 - 27 Airdrie, Alberta “Windwood Music Festival”“A Fair To Remember”
Read More7 cities, 8 concerts. Too many stories to count.
We’ve collected even more hearts, even more memories, mantras, silly inside jokes and chants and phrases ingrained in our collective spirit, the tiny gestures, habits, quirks, flaws that make us all the more mysteriously, freshly, curiously in love. Endlessly proud. Endless humbled.
Read MoreIt’s quite simple, really.
Experiencing this music is about exploring what home means for each of us individually, and allowing ourselves to be moved collectively by that feeling. By the nostalgia, the joy and the pain, love and grief, happiness and sadness. Everything. Allowing us to notice and remember again what we miss, where we want to be, how beautiful that all is. Even if we don’t find the answers, even if we cannot return to that place, or if home was never a safe place to begin with … we can still all bond over this deep longing for home. That in itself is more than plenty.
Read MoreOh Canada… It’s time.
Time to say hello, again. Hello, Airdrie, hello Rocky Mountains and prairies and wind and snow and trees and mom’s delicious feasts. Hello, home.
And also? Who better to come home with than my kindred spirit and ultimate partner in wild magicking, in music, in making dreams a reality, in the endless bewilderment of life. Duo Perdendosi, Maitreyi and I, will be embarking on a wondrous adventure the next half year.
Read MoreWrapping up a month of touring around Europe!
4 cities, 7 concerts. A kaleidoscope of different musical experiences, people experiences, challenges, risks, courage, resilience, joy, fire, light, warmth, magic, growth. Repeating the trust in what we love, what we do, what we chose to continue doing again and again, with infinite wonder and gratitude.
The smallest ripples matter. It’s all about opening hearts and listening. But what kind of listening? What is the art of listening? It’s profoundly complex. Increasingly difficult in our world to practice kind, humble, loving listening free from biases and prejudices. But that is a worthwhile challenge to face.
Read MoreDearest friends and family,
Happy New Year of the Rabbit 🐰🧧🎉! Today marks the release of my new live album 我们 "Us" ! Now available on all online streaming platforms and for CD order.
Read MoreI’m thrilled to share some announcements about the coming year! I’ll be writing about each individual project soon in more detail, but here’s an overview:
Second Album: “我们Us (Live)”
Duo Incarnadine: “Four Cities x2”
Duo Perdendosi: “Homecoming”
Windwood Music Festival: Season One
Once again, LAMP has nurtured our hearts. The warmth, the sincerity and generosity, the laughter and joy and cozy dinner parties alongside peaceful walks in solitude and late night practicing in the “Old Castle”. I was asked by a dear host why I keep returning to LAMP. Well, there’s the indisputable level of musicianship here that continues to inspire and drive me to perform at my best, but so much more than that are the relationships. The details in the intimate, personal, real experience we have here as people, friends, family. Community. I love community. I love.
Read MoreI’ve written enough cheesy declamations of my love and gratitude. I’ll let these notes speak for themselves. I only got to open them a few days ago, and they gave me such hope. I couldn’t stop smiling. Particularly at a time when I felt burnt out, discouraged, a little … blank - these words reminded me, that we were all together, that we were present, we created the emoting that is so wondrous and touching.
So, thank you all.
Read More“We believe in the power of music to bring people together. No matter what style, what genre, which part of the world the music comes from, it’s truly a universal language. We share a very deep sort of nostalgic connection to music we might have never even heard. If we just offer a space that’s very accessible, inclusive, non-judgmental, that’s what we’re aiming to do. The more we bring it out there, the more we humanize classical music.”
Read MoreMontreal, skye.pianist is back! Super excited to share this program I’ve been touring this summer, now on home turf, and with my dearest friends of the Trio Eudaemonia - Julia Weldon on cello and Maitreyi Muralidharan on violin for a special performance of Reena Esmail’s Piano Trio.
Read MoreThe rush of warmth expansiveness
Overflow of love and joy and breadth
The desire to share with someone this view
This feeling
This openness
This incredible understanding
Who?
Clouds at the end of the open endless horizon those rolling hills stretching into the sky
The cars driving into that bliss
How is the sky
So big
Here
...
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