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. 

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Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) - Sonate pour piano no 1 en fa mineur, opus 6 / Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 6

Like a furious outcry against some unfathomable dark force, some inevitable tragic destiny, Scriabin’s First Sonata in F minor bursts open with a whirlwind of upwardly sweeping exclamations. Breathless, agitated, and impatient, this initial violent gesture suddenly diffuses into a series of inquisitive and hopeful major tonalities accompanied by flurries of glittering, bubbly left-hand textures before melting into an intimate, forlorn second theme full of sensual sighs and waves of spontaenous, surging desire. These intensifying lyrical phrases lead into a coda of triumphant fanfares in the relative major key of A-flat.

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"What is understanding? 
Is it happiness, or unhappiness? 
Does it bring us closer, or push us apart? 
Perhaps it’s both.
A continuous process. 
A beautiful, painstaking attempt towards moments of happiness."

"To love, makes one solitary. 
To love, makes one strange. I was not that girl
worthy of your love. The more I was loved, 
The more I hated myself.
'Why could I not just be happy?' 
The more I was loved, the lonelier and stranger I became. To love, makes one solitary. 
To love, makes one strange."

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“Labyrinth of Tears” is an original storyline from the Zenkora Universe that follows the adventures of The Flower Club, five wizardry schoolgirls from the prestigious New Verdecas Academy of Magical Arts. Four of the girls journey into the mind Labyrinth of their friend, Kansa Nightingale, in an attempt to rescue her from a deep, mysterious coma. Inside the ‘Labyrinth of Tears’, they discover the fantastical and absurd horrors of Kansa’s inner world, and must work together to solve the puzzles of the three peculiar identities guarding the Labyrinth - the Assassin, the Courtesan, and the Child. But more than just overcoming the trials, they must learn how to navigate and embrace the vulnerabilities, confusion, and paradoxes on this strange path to understanding love, friendship, and happiness.

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I’m very excited to share that I will be touring with Debut Atlantic in the 2025/26 season, performing across some of my most treasured parts of Canada - Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland from February 6-22, 2026.

This solo recital program “Towards the Flame” features Chopin, Scriabin, Stravinsky, and a new commission by Alice Ping Yee Ho, "A Manic Ride Through Lollipop Hell."

I will also be touring this program in October across Houston, Ottawa, and Montreal.

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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.

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