Lisa Raposa Millar maintains a varied career as a piano recitalist, adjudicator, and instructor. Renowned for the clarity and tonal beauty of her playing, she has appeared in esteemed venues including Koerner Hall, the Toronto Convention
Centre, the Gardiner Museum, Heliconian Hall, and the former Gallery 345. In previous seasons, she performed in The Piano Lunaire, a series dedicated to the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, and served as a rehearsal pianist with the
Iranian-Canadian Composers of Toronto (ICOT) on the opera The Journey: Notes of Hope featuring soprano Zorana Sadiq.
Since 2008, she and her husband Gregory Millar have presented lectures and concerts as the Millar Piano Duo, captivating audiences with their vibrant interpretations. Their repertoire includes one-piano, four-hand and two-piano
music by Barber, Brahms, Dvořák, Gershwin, Mozart, Milhaud, Poulenc, Schubert, American composer Christopher Kies, and Canadian composer Frank Horvat, on whose "Me to We" album they appear. Notably, their 2023 performance of
Rhapsody in Blue at the Music on the Hill festival in Rhode Island was performed to a full house.
Raposa Millar has written for American Music Teacher magazine and co-runs a private teaching studio in Toronto. She began playing the piano as a four-year-old by her mother's side in Tiverton, Rhode Island and commenced lessons with
JoAnn Mello at the age of seven. She taught her first students as a teenaged undergraduate and for over two decades has enriched the musical lives of hundreds of students, both as a teacher and collaborative pianist. Before relocating to Canada, she earned a BA from the University of New Hampshire, an MM from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (where she twice received the Eugenie May Award for Outstanding Accomplishment as a Solo and Collaborative Pianist), and a DMA from the Eastman School of Music, where she was honoured with an Excellence in Accompanying Award. Her principal teachers included Arlene Kies, Estela Olevsky, Jean Barr, and Nelita True, and she participated in
numerous master classes with visiting artists.
Outside of music, Lisa ran her first full marathon in 2024 and is currently training for the Niagara Ultra Marathon in June.
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church - Sanctuary
54 Queen St. N.
Kitchener, ON N2H 2H2
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:9:00 AM | Name:Jaelen Chen | Titles: Rondo capriccioso, op. 14 by Felix Mendelssohn La soirée dans Grenade (no. 2) by Claude Debussy Etude in B flat minor, op. 4, no. 3 by Karol Szymanowski | Home Festival:Kitchener-Waterloo |
Time:9:25 AM | Name:Zhuoen John Zhao | Titles: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, op. 23 by Frédéric Chopin Estampes Pagodes (no. 1) by Claude Debussy Eight Concert Etudes, op. 40, no. 1 by Nikolai Kapustin | Home Festival:Hamilton |
Time:9:50 AM | Name:Kai Melconian | Titles: Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974, 1st, 2nd and 3rd mvts. by Johann Sebastian Bach/Alessandro Marcello Sonata No. 13 in A Major, D. 664, 1st, 2nd and 3rd mvts. by Franz Schubert Etudes-tableaux, op. 39, no. 5 in E flat Minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff | Home Festival:London |
Time:10:25 AM | Name:Richard Long | Titles: Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI:50 by Franz Joseph Haydn Rhapsody in G Minor, op. 79, no. 2 by Johannes Brahms Ballade slave (L. 70) by Claude Debussy | Home Festival:Guelph |
Time:11:00 AM | Name:Yunen Gu | Titles: Sonata No. 21 in C Major, op. 53, "Waldstein", 2nd & 3rd mvts. by Ludwig van Beethoven Ravel Gaspard de la nuit , I. Ondine and III. Scarbo by Maurice Ravel | Home Festival:Unionville |
Time:11:35 AM | Name:Thomas Liu | Titles: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903 by Johann Sebastian Bach Variations Brillantes in B flat Major, op. 12 by Frédéric Chopin Sonata in A flat Major, Hob.XVI:46, Complete by Franz Joseph Haydn | Home Festival:Pickering GTA |
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:1:00 PM | Name:Joy Qiaoyi Li | Titles: Prelude and Fugue in C sharp Minor, BWV 873 by Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, op. 28 by Sergei Prokofiev | Home Festival:North York Live |
Time:1:20 PM | Name:Sebastian Haddad | Titles: Toccata in G Major, BWV 916 by Johann Sebastian Bach Estampes: La soirée dans Grenade (no. 2) by Claude Debussy Three Burlesques, op. 8c, I and III by Béla Bartók | Home Festival:Windsor-Essex |
Time:1:45 PM | Name:Aijia Zhang | Titles: Sonata No. 27 in E Minor, op. 90, I. Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck by Ludwig van Beethoven Nocturne in C Minor, op. 48, no. 1 by Frédéric Chopin Sonata in F Minor, K 481, Andante e cantabile by Domenica Scarlatti | Home Festival:Peel |
Workshop will be held from approximately 2:15 pm to 3:30 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