Asher maintains an active concert career: notable recent engagements include solo recital performances at the Walton Arts Center, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Royal College of Music in London (UK), as well as appearances as concerto soloist with Pax Christi Chorale and the Mozart Players of Toronto, and with the North York Concert Orchestra.
A passionate, committed teacher, Asher is on the Piano Faculty of the University of Toronto where he is a Lecturer of Piano and Chamber Music. Prior to this appointment Asher served as an Assistant professor of Piano at the University of Arkansas, and Asher has also taught at the Interlochen School for the Arts.
Asher serves as an adjudicator and masterclass clinician at many festivals and competitions throughout North America, and internationally, and is also a proud member of the Royal Conservatory's College of Examiners. As a scholar, Asher's work has been published by Cambridge University Press's Tempo, as well as Clavier/Piano Magazine, American Music Teacher, the European Piano Teachers Association Piano Journal, Canadian Music Teacher, MTNA's E-Journal, the Kaprálová Society Journal, and others.
Knox Presbyterian Church
461 Elizabeth St.
Burlington, ON L7R 4B1
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:9:00 AM | Name:Joon Lee | Titles: Prelude in G minor, op. 23, no. 5 by Sergei Rachmaninoff In memoriam: to Victims of Chernobyl by Larysa Kuzmenko | Home Festival:Niagara |
Time:9:15 AM | Name:Mia Chen | Titles: The Lark by Mily Balakirev, transc. from Mikhail Glinka El Puerto by Isaac Albéniz | Home Festival:Stratford |
Time:9:30 AM | Name:Richard Nguyen | Titles: Prelude and Fugue in A flat Major, BWV 886 by Johann Sebastian Bach Estampes - La soirée dans Grenade, no. 2 by Claude Debussy | Home Festival:Unionville |
Time:9:45 AM | Name:Sebastian Haddad | Titles: Sonata in A flat Major, Hob. XVI:46, Allegro moderato, Adagio, Presto by Franz Joseph Haydn Barcarolle in F sharp Major, opus 60, Single movement piece by Frédéric Chopin | Home Festival:Windsor-Essex |
Time:10:10 AM | Name:Chen Song | Titles: Prelude and Fugue in C sharp Major, BWV 848 by Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata by Pierre Sancan | Home Festival:Guelph |
Time:10:20 AM | Name:Angela Liao | Titles: Nocturne in B Major, op. 62, no.1 by Frederic Chopin Sonatina, Bagpipes, Bear Dance, Finale by Béla Bartók | Home Festival:Niagara |
Time:10:40 AM | Name:Cynthia Li | Titles: Prelude and Fugue in F Major, BWV 880 by J.S. Bach Nocturne in E flat Major, op. 55, no. 2 by Frédéric Chopin | Home Festival:North York Live |
Time:10:55 AM | Name:Bailee Bai | Titles: Rondo Capriccioso by Felix Mendelssohn Concert Etude by Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt Grammate | Home Festival:Kitchener-Waterloo |
Time:11:10 AM | Name:Ethan Qi | Titles: Sonata No. 31 in A flat Major, Hob XVI 46 by Franz Joseph Haydn Impromptu in F sharp major, op. 36 by Frédéric Chopin | Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis |
Time:1:00 PM | Name:Sean Chen | Titles: Scherzo in B Minor, op. 20 by Frédéric Chopin Estampes - Pagodes, no. 1 by Claude Debussy | Home Festival:Pickering GTA |
Time:1:20 PM | Name:Miah Tam | Titles: Sonata in D Minor, op. 31, no. 2 ("Tempest"), 1st and 2nd mvts. by Ludwig van Beethoven Grand Valse Brillante, op. 18 by Frédéric Chopin | Home Festival:Take the Stage |
Time:1:55 PM | Name:Arthur Qu | Titles: Sonata in C Minor, Hob. XVI:20, 1st and 2nd mvts. by F.J. Haydn Three Preludes by George Gershwin | Home Festival:Yip's |
Workshop will be held from approximately 2:30 pm until 4:00 pm.
Announcement of the winners and top competitor chosen to go to the Playoffs will happen at the end of the workshop.
The Diploma Piano Playoffs will be held at Pineland Baptist Church - 5100 New Street - from 4:30 pm to approximately 6:00 pm.
Playoff competitor will have to travel to Pineland Baptist Church.