PERFORMER

After six months of study at the age of 10, I entered my first music festival and received my first scholarship. I never looked back.   The piano enabled me to express pent-up emotions that a shy young girl could never have expressed.  There was no composer or style that I didn’t like from Bach through Berg.  My university years expanded my performing interests and I embraced all that collaborative pianism offered – duo sonata repertoire, trios, quartets, quintets, lieder, orchestral reductions. 

My professional life began with my debut with the Toronto Symphony when I performed Mendelssohn’s Concerto in G minor. I was still an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto with 7 years of piano study under my belt. Since then, I have performed over 20 concertos with orchestra and formed partnerships with some of Canada’s finest musicians.  Many of these concerts were recorded by CBC radio.  I have contributed to 30 CDs.  Through these connections, my performing career has allowed me to perform internationally throughout Europe, Israel and Mexico.

A graduate rhythm studies course led to another passion.  The professor was a young composer, Joel Hoffman, and he asked if I would record his piano compositions. While I had studied a lot of contemporary music, this was the opportunity to contribute my talents to premiering and creating archival recordings of new music. Fast forward to my move to Vancouver in 1993 and I became a founding member of the Turning Point Ensemble and the Yarilo Contemporary Music Ensemble.  These groups continue to be a major part of my performing life.