Saturday, June 14th

Classical Piano - Concerto - Intermediate, Senior and Advanced

Adjudicator: Brigitte Poulin

Classical Piano - Concerto - Intermediate, Senior and Advanced

Montreal-based, Brigitte Poulin is an active and accomplished soloist, chamber musician and teacher whose repertoire covers all periods. A proponent of 20th and 21st century music, Brigitte has commissioned and premiered more than fifty works for solo piano, prepared piano and various chamber ensembles.

Graduated from the Université de Montréal (DMus), the Vienna Music Academy and the Montreal music Conservatory, Brigitte has been several times artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Brigitte counts among her faithful collaborators doublebassist Ali Yazdanfar and pianist Jean Marchand. She has also founded two contemporary chamber ensembles: Ensemble Transmission and Trio Phoenix.

Brigitte Poulin teaches as a part-time lecturer at The Schulich music School of McGill University. She is also accompanying at both McGill Schulich School of Music and Université de Montréal. She is regularly called upon to adjudicate for Arts Councils grant proposals as well as Music Festivals across Canada. She is as well a member of the Summer Academy of Orford Music. As well since September 2021, she is teaching piano at the École de musique de Verdun and the Villa Sainte-Marcelline.

Her most recent CD recordings include: Folklore imaginaire music by Ana Sokolović (Naxos), Pierrot lunaire (Atma), Transmission, and her own solo CD Édifices Naturels (Dame). Her performances can be heard on Naxos Records and YouTube.

Location

Wilfrid Laurier University - Room M4031
75 University Ave. W.
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5

Classical Piano Concertos - Intermediate Level - Ages 15-16 - Level 9 and Above

TimeNameTitlesHome Festival
Time:9:00 AMName:Joanne YehTitles:
Concerto No. 2 in F minor, op. 21, 1st mvt. by Frédéric Chopin
Home Festival:Unionville
Time:9:20 AMName:Helen KimTitles:
Concerto in A minor, op. 54, 1st mvt. by Robert Schumann
Home Festival:Peel
Time:9:45 AMName:Zhou FangTitles:
Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, op. 25, 1st mvt. by Felix Mendelssohn
Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis
Time:10:00 AMName:Nancy LinTitles:
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op. 37, 1st mvt. by Ludwig Van Beethoven
Home Festival:Ottawa Piano
Time:10:20 AMName:Brian LinTitles:
Concerto No.1 in C Major, op. 15, 1st mvt. by Ludwig van Beethoven
Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis
Time:10:40 AMName:Sebastian HaddadTitles:
Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, op. 37, 1st mvt.: Allegro con brio by Ludwig van Beethoven
Home Festival:Windsor-Essex
Time:11:00 AMName:Layla-Björt Jóhönnudóttir TaherzadehTitles:
Concerto, op. 38, 2nd mvt. by Samuel Barber
Home Festival:Ottawa Piano

Classical Piano Concertos - Senior Level - Ages 17-18

TimeNameTitlesHome Festival
Time:11:15 AMName:Daniel ZhangTitles:
Burleske in D Minor, TrV 145 by Richard Strauss
Home Festival:Kitchener-Waterloo
Time:11:40 AMName:Michelle YehTitles:
Concerto No. 2 in B flat Major, op. 19, 1st mvt. by Ludwig van Beethoven
Home Festival:Unionville
Time:12:00 PMName:WithdrawnTitles:Home Festival:

12:15 PM - Lunch Break

Classical Piano Concertos - Advanced Level - Ages 19-28

TimeNameTitlesHome Festival
Time:1:15 PMName:Steven ZhaiTitles:
Concerto No. 5 in D Major, K 175, 2nd and 3rd mvts. by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Home Festival:Unionville
Time:1:35 PMName:Angela Suet Kee NgTitles:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, op. 102, 1st and 2nd mvts. by Dmitri Shostakovich
Home Festival:CCC
Time:1:55 PMName:Peixuan HeTitles:
Concerto in C sharp Minor, FP. 146, 1st mvt. by Francis Poulenc
Home Festival:London

2:30 PM - Workshop and Announcement of Winners - MANDATORY

Workshop will be held from approximately 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm.

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