Monday, June 9th

Classical Piano - Open - Group H

Adjudicator: Lisa Raposa Millar

Classical Piano - Open - Group H

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.

Location

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church - Sanctuary
54 Queen St. N.
Kitchener, ON N2H 2H2

Classical Piano - Open - Group H - Morning

TimeNameTitlesHome Festival
Time:9:00 AMName:Jaelen ChenTitles:
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 AMName:Zhuoen John ZhaoTitles:
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 AMName:Kai MelconianTitles:
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 AMName:Richard LongTitles:
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 AMName:Yunen GuTitles:
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 AMName:Thomas LiuTitles:
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

12:00 PM - Lunch Break

Classical Piano - Open - Group H - Afternoon

TimeNameTitlesHome Festival
Time:1:00 PMName:Joy Qiaoyi LiTitles:
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 PMName:Sebastian HaddadTitles:
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 PMName:Aijia ZhangTitles:
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

2:15 PM - Workshop and Announcement of Winners - MANDATORY

Workshop will be held from approximately 2:15 pm to 3:30 pm.

Announcement of winners will happen at the end of the workshop.

4:15 PM - PLAYOFFS - Classical Piano - Open

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