Brett Kingsbury enjoys a diverse performing career as both a soloist and a collaborative artist. He is 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.
Wilfrid Laurier University - Room M2001
75 University Ave. W.
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:9:00 AM | Name:Erica Wang | Titles: Impromptu in F minor, op. 31 no. 2 by Gabriel Fauré Barcarolle in F sharp Major, op. 60 by Frédéric Chopin In Memoriam to Victims of Chernobyl by Larysa Kuzmenko | Home Festival:Windsor-Essex |
Time:9:25 AM | Name:Samuel Mao | Titles: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, op. 118, no. 3 by Frédéric Chopin Prelude and Fugue in B flat Minor, BWV 867 by Johann Sebastian Bach Paganini Jazz by Fazil Say | Home Festival:North York Live |
Time:9:50 AM | Name:Takashi New | Titles: Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826, Sinfonia by Johann Sebastian Bach Ballade No. 2 in B Minor, S171 by Franz Liszt Jeux d'eau by Maurice Ravel | Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis |
Time:10:20 AM | Name:Parker Wellman | Titles: Etude, op. 10, no. 6 in E flat minor by Frédéric Chopin Etude, op. 25, no. 5 in E Minor by Frédéric Chopin Intermezzo, op. 118, No. 1 and No. 2 by Johannes Brahms | Home Festival:Kingston |
Time:10:40 AM | Name:Sophia Yao | Titles: Sonata in D Minor, op. 31, no. 2 ("Tempest"), 1st and 2nd mvts. by Ludwig Van Beethoven Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825, Praeludium, Sarabande, and Gigue by Johann Sebastian Bach Sonatina, Sz. 55, BB. 69, I- Bagpipes II- Bear Dance III- Finale by Béla Bartók | Home Festival:Peel |
Time:11:10 AM | Name:Liam Lai | Titles: Prelude and Fugue in C Sharp Minor, BWV 849 by Johann Sebastian Bach Etude in E, op. 10, no. 3 by Frédéric Chopin La cathédrale engloutie by Claude Debussy | Home Festival:North York Virtual |
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:12:45 PM | Name:Kevin Kang | Titles: Ballade No. 1 in G minor, op. 23 by Frédéric Chopin Transcendental Etude No. 4 in D minor (Mazeppa) by Franz Liszt | Home Festival:Guelph |
Time:1:10 PM | Name:Sebastian Brunner | Titles: Sonata No. 14 in C sharp Minor, op. 27, no. 2, complete by Ludwig von Beethoven 3 Intermezzi, op. 117 by Johannes Brahms | Home Festival:Pickering Rotary |
Time:1:45 PM | Name:Arthur Qu | Titles: Sonata in D Minor, op. 31. no. 2 ("Tempest"), 1st and 2nd mvts. by Ludwig Van Beethoven Prelude in G minor, op. 23, no. 5 by Sergei Rachmaninov Desperate measures (Paganin variations), op. 48 by Robert Muczynski | Home Festival:Star-MVP |
Workshop will be held from approximately 2:30 pm to 3:45 pm.
Announcement of winners will happen at the end of the workshop.
The top competitor from this class will proceed to the playoffs.
The playoffs will be held at Conrad Grebel University College - Chapel
140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo, ON N2L 3G6