Dearest 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.
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Montreal, 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.
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The 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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8 hands, 1 honky-tonk piano, loads of cuteness. Come join 5 rowdy pianists in bringing alive the sweet, silly, fantastical world of Japanese animation alongside exquisite French duets!
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In a time of immense political upheaval, “Us" is an invitation to reconnect with each other and with the world around us. This solo piano program celebrates traditional cultural heritages and unravels social issues across the world from China and India to Turkey, Ukraine, and Africa.
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Cuteness has swept across our world by storm. And it both attracts and repels. While cuteness can elicit warm fuzzy feelings, it can also provoke ugly or aggressive ones. More than just sweet, cuddly, and charming, cuteness has become fused with the uncanny, grotesque, and monstrous - often in a frivolous and subversive way. But: there is still hope for the innocent. Alongside our world of irony and cynicism, there is a place for magic, simplicity, and sincerity – the parallel universe of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and Spirited Away. These deeply cherished animations are pure, earnest, and irresistibility cute. Likewise, their music wield the power of cute to open our hearts to vulnerability and tenderness. My research will use composer Joe Hisaishi’s film scores to investigate the musical recipe to cuteness. How does cuteness become the sound of empathy? And how can we find hope, innocence, and vulnerability within the cynic?
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Always a treat to collaborate with the gorgeous human bean and artist Ariadne :’) <3
To many more exciting projects to come!!! (Fairytales and animal friends and cuteness yayyyy~)
Spirits, wanderers, dreamers, Ghiblilane! UTAU2 makes its appearance at Kin, Montreal to take listeners down a memory lane of curiosity, wonder, and imagination. Accompanied by animated visuals, installation, dim-lit candles and poetry readings, the GHIBLILANE project pays tribute to the musical works of Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi throughout his long-time collaboration with Studio Ghibli. Reserved to a select audience of 25, GHIBLILANE endeavors to create a concert experience that is touching, memorable, and uplifting during such strange times— a reminder that silver linings can be found in every corner of the world.
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‘Song of Praise’ is a special and personal program that explores the complex and multidimensional aspects that make up our identities as Chinese-Canadian classical musicians. This collection of diverse repertoire not only pays homage to our Chinese heritage, but also highlights our passion for Canadian culture and advocates for Western classical masterpieces. Being born in China, immigrating at a young age to Canada, and growing up shaped by our intensive study of Western classical music, all three elements became intertwined and deeply rooted in our personalities.
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So grateful for this big family and for building these meaningful relationships with such talented musicians with awesomeeee personalities :’) … oh all the fun we’ve had, all the stories … what a privileged life we live to be artists and musicians <3 constant adventures and discoveries alongside the struggles and challenges and hard work. It’s always always worth it. The people we meet, the places we go, the music we share, the inspirations and energy and passion and life … So grateful.
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Born in Salzburg, Mozart began composing at the tender age of 5, and over the course of the next 30 years, produced over 600 symphonic, chamber, choral, and solo works that became masterworks in the classical music repertoire. However, the ultimate pinnacle of his genius is often said to be his operas. The effortless ability to create vibrant characters, playful dialogues, lyrical melodies, colorful orchestrations - all his talents come together in this genre to bring alive stories that are full of charm, humor, wit, and drama.
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“You have heard my mysterious summons, ye hidden powers of life, and now you stir; the wave of my being, light as a dream, has touched the world./ To life, to light! I awaken you to life with my acts of tenderness, with the mysterious attraction of my promises./ I summon you to life, ye secret drives submerged in the chaos of perceptions. Rise up from the mysterious depths of the creative spirit./ Like unto me shall you strive to help everyone and everything around you to supreme evolution. For everything is your creation, just as everything that exists is my creation. You and I – we are gods! We shall conquer hatred and death, boundless joy shall reign. Life shall flow onward like a shimmering and gleaming stream.”
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How do we best approach performances mentally? What do we think about or focus on once we’re on stage?
‘The only way is to listen. Be in the moment of the performance.”
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There’s something about the summer festival environment that is so fun and inspiring and motivates all this growth and discovery and learning and progress in such a special, productive way. Perhaps it’s the nature - being engulfed by glittering green colors and fresh mountain air, encountering wonderful personalities and friendships, … and the luxury of focusing only on music music music …
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Lots of exciting news and events coming up for this summer and fall!
June 9 to 16: Orford Music Masterclasses
July 16 to August 11: MusicFest
August 11 to 17: competing in Orford Music Award
September 6: Solo Recital at Pollack Hall
September 21: Opening Concert for the Westmount Park Heritage Festival
It's been quite a productive third contract so far! Emilie and I already put on a recital project - Masterworks: Franck, featuring the Cesar Franck's Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano. It was a really rewarding process to finally learn this demanding collaborative work and to present it in such a short amount of time. More music to come!
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What a week it's been - great adventures exploring the Imperial Palace, trying delicious street foods, and making wonderful music. Thank you to the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing for being such generous hosts and offering us this opportunity!
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I really can’t put to words how much I love sharing music, how much it means to me. I am so grateful. Thank you to such a warm and supportive orchestra, thank you Claude for this opportunity, for this special, memorable, passionate collaboration. Thank you, Rachmaninoff.
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