Saturday, June 13th

Brett Kingsbury enjoys a diverse performing career as both a soloist and a collaborative artist. He has worked with many ensembles and performers including the Madawaska String Quartet, Magisterra Soloists, London Symphonia, the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra, and members of the Hamilton Philharmonic and Toronto Symphony Orchestras. He is very active as an adjudicator and masterclass clinician, working frequently with pianists across the province. His doctoral dissertation was written on Busoni’s Fantasia Contrappuntistica, a rarely heard work he has performed on numerous occasions. He has also been involved in the world of opera as a repetiteur for Vancouver Opera, TrypTych concert and opera, Opera York, and other companies in Ontario.

Brett is currently a member of the piano faculty at the Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University, where he teaches studio piano, Performance Research, Piano Literature. His research and teaching focus on exploring ways in which music theory and history can enlighten and enhance the performer’s understanding of music in performance. Brett is also a former faculty member at the University of Toronto Scarborough and at Brock University, and he is very active as an adjudicator for festivals across the province. While a student at the University of British Columbia, he was named R. Howard Webster Fellow at Green College. Brett studied with Leslie Kinton at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and he received his Doctor of Musical Arts while studying with Robert Silverman at the University of British Columbia.