Calendar

Upcoming Performances & Events

 

Avenue Road Performance and Music Academy

January 18th, 2026: 2:00PM

Toronto, ON

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Private House Recital

January 19th, 2026: 7:30PM

With Lucia Ticho (Cello)

Toronto, ON

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University of Toronto New Music Festival

January 24th, 2026: 2:00PM

With The Bedford Trio (Lucia Ticho and Alessia Dimenno)

Toronto, ON

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Canadian Opera Company: Free Concert Series

January 28th, 2026: 12:00PM

Toronto, ON

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Concerts de la Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur

April 15th, 2026

With Jean-Luc Therrien (Piano)

Montreal, QC

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Darius Milhaud: Scaramouche, Op. 165 (arranged for piano 4-hands by Magdalena Galka)

Samuel Barber: Souvenirs

Felix Mendelssohn: Octet, Op. 20

 

The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage Series

April 22nd, 2026

With Emily Tsai (Oboe) and Joseph Grimmer (Bassoon)

Washington D.C.

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Chincoteague Cultural Alliance

April 25th, 2026

With Emily Tsai (Oboe)

Chincoteague Island, VA

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Emerson Avenue Salons

April 26th, 2026

With Emily Tsai (Oboe) and Joseph Grimmer (Bassoon)

McLean, VA

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Past Performances and Events

 
 

November 2025

VAYA Festivals: Adjudicator (Vancouver/Online)

 

Piano Levels 6-ARCT

 

July-August 2025

Highlands Opera Studio (Haliburton, Ontario)

Staff Collaborative Pianist

 

“Love and Betrayal”

Frederic Chopin: Fantaisie Impromptu (Excerpt)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Tatyana’s Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin (Soprano, Lauren Margison)

George Crumb: Selections from Makrokosmos

Francis Poulenc: La voix humaine (Tenor, Patricia Yates)

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April 2025

Kiwanis Kingston: Festival Adjudicator

 

Piano Levels 6-ARCT

March 2025

The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage Concert Series (Washington D.C.)

With Emily Tsai (Oboe) and members of the Washington National Opera Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra

 

Darius Milhaud: Scaramouche, Op. 165 (arranged for piano 4-hands by Magdalena Galka)

Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Piano Four Hands, FP 8

Germaine Tailleferre: Three Selections (Solo by Jean-Luc Therrien)

INTERMSSION

Gilles Bellemare: “Le récit du chasseur” from Scènes de l’autre Forêt

Frederic Rzewski: “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues”, Four North American Ballads No. 4  (Solo by Tristan Savella)

Samuel Barber: Souvenirs for Four Hands, Op. 28

 

April 2025

Syrinx Concerts (Toronto)

With Jean-Luc Therrien (Piano)

 

Piano Levels 8-10

 

March 2025

Emerson Avenue Salons (McLean, Virginia)

With Emily Tsai (Oboe)

 

Discrete Structures

Claude Debussy: “Reverie”

Marina Dranishnikova: “Poem for Oboe & Piano”

Francis Poulenc: “Sonata for Oboe & Piano, FP 185”

  1. Élégie

  2. Scherzo

  3. Déploration

Alexander Scriabin: Two Poems, Op. 32

Frederic Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in Ab Major, Op. 47

Marc Mellits: “Discrete Structures”

  1. Circular Structure

  2. Red Structure

  3. Survival Structure

  4. Gold Structure

  5. Blue Structure

  6. Tight Structure

  7. Clock Structure

  8. Liquid Structure

  9. Shiny Structure

  10. Square Structure

 

March 2025

The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage Concert Series (Washington D.C.)

With Emily Tsai (Oboe) and members of the Washington National Opera Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra

 

Discrete Structures

Claude Debussy: Reverie (Oboe and Piano)

Marina Dranishnikova: “Poem for Oboe & Piano”

Sergei Rachmaninoff: String Quartet No. 1

Marc Mellits: “Discrete Structures” (String Quartet and Oboe)

  1. Circular Structure

  2. Red Structure

  3. Survival Structure

  4. Gold Structure

  5. Blue Structure

  6. Tight Structure

  7. Clock Structure

  8. Liquid Structure

  9. Shiny Structure

  10. Square Structure

 

February 2025

Kiwanis Toronto: Festival Adjudicator

 

Piano Levels 8-10

 

December 2024

Concerts@100

December 19th, 2024

With Lucie Ticho (Cello)

 

Pierre Jalbert: Sonata for Cello and Piano (2007)

Miklos Rozsa: Toccata Cappricciosa for Solo Cello

Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Minor

 

November 2024

Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Series

With Jean-Luc Therrien (Piano)

Kitchener-Waterloo, ON

 

Exploring the historical ties between France and North America through music, and the mutual influence between 20th century French and North American composers.

Darius Milhaud: Scaramouche, Op. 165 (arranged for piano 4-hands by Magdalena Galka)

Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Piano Four Hands, FP 8

Germaine Tailleferre: Impromptu (Solo by Jean-Luc Therrien)

Francis Poulenc: Improvisation No. 7 in C Major, FP 63/7 (Solo by Jean-Luc Therrien)

Claude Debussy: L’isle joyeuse, L. 106 (Solo by Jean-Luc Therrien)

INTERMISSION

Alexina Louie: “Memories from an Ancient Garden”, No. 2 from Scenes from a Jade Terrace  (Solo by Tristan Savella)

Frederic Rzewski: “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues”, Four North American Ballads No. 4  (Solo by Tristan Savella)

Samuel Barber: Souvenirs for Four Hands, Op. 28

 

November 2024

Clearly Home Musical Concerts

 

Frederic Chopin: Ballade No. 3 and Selected Etudes

Alexander Scriabin: Two Poems, Op. 34

Claude Debussy: Images II

Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata Op. 57, “Appassionata”

 

June 2024

Doors Open For Music at Southminster

Ottawa, ON

With Jean-Luc Therrien (Piano)

 

Darius Milhaud: Scaramouche (Four Hands Transcription by M. Galka)

Selections from Francis Poulenc, Germaine Tailleferre and Claude Debussy (Solo by Jean-Luc Therrien)

Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Four-Hands

Alexina Louie: “Memories in an Ancient Garden” from Scenes from a Jade Terrace (Solo by Tristan Savella)

Frederic Rzewski: “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues” from Four North American Ballads (Solo by Tristan Savella)

Samuel Barber: Selections from Souvenirs

April 2024

Canadian Opera Company: Free Concert Series

With Pulse Music Collective

 

C. Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano

C. Debussy: Claire de Lune

S. Rachmaninov: Sonata for Cello and Piano (Selected movements)

Other works for solo cello

 

Feburary/March 2024

Candlelight Concerts

Solo Recital

 

Tribute to Frederic Chopin

Waltz in B Minor, Op. 69, No. 2

Waltz in D-Flat Major, Op. 64, No. 2, “Minute Waltz”

Prelude in D-Flat Major, “Raindrop”

Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66

Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9, No. 1

Etude in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12, “Revolutionary”

Four Mazurkas, Op. 17 (No. 1 in B-Flat Major; No. 2 in E Minor; No. 3 in A-Flat Major; No. 4 in A Minor)

Ballade No. 3 in A-Flat Major

Nocturne in B Major, Op. 62, No. 1

 

February 2024

Concerts@100

With Bora Kim (Violin) and Andrew Ascenzo (Cello)

 

Antonín Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 4, “Dumky”

Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor