Duo 330 Organ and Piano Concert with Jingquan Xie and Ryan Baxter

Show: 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Doors: 2:30 p.m.

Tickets:

General - $30 adv. / $35 door

Youth 13-17 + Post Secondary Student - $20 adv. / $25 door

12 & under - Free

Free Parking in the St. Thomas parking lots behind the church (access from Cherry St).

Dropoff and accessible parking available at front driveway of church.

This facility is wheelchair accessible.

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Description

Experience the power of the piano and pipe organ together in concert with Duo 330. From Mozart’s sparkling Magic Flute overture to Liszt’s fiery Hungarian Rhapsody, this program moves between the playful, the lyrical, and the grand. Works by Mascagni, Peeters, and Canadian composer Denis Bédard round out a concert rich in unique colours.

Jingquan Xie has been characterized by the Toronto Concert Review as a pianist who “… has found her own voice and is making music that goes beyond the technical and musical demands of the music." She has performed as soloist with the Symphonic Orchestra of Keimyung University in Daegu, the Symphonic Orchestra of the Shanghai Conservatory, and Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, and played solo recitals at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre of the Canadian Opera Company, The Royal Occasion in Koerner Hall, University of Toronto’s Piano Laureates Concert, recital series in Hamamatsu, and at the Bianco Arts Concert Series as winner of the 11th Texas State International Piano Festival's Betty Dickinson Award. She is a top prize winner at The Asian Pacific International Chopin Piano Competition, the Concerto Competition and Chamber Music Competition of the Shanghai Conservatory, the VI Krystian Tkaczewski Competition, the Pacific Rim International Piano Competition, the Chicago International Music Competition, and The 3rd Paul Badura-Skoda International Piano Competition.

Ryan Baxter is a candidate in the Doctor of Musical Arts program at Western University’s Don Wright Faculty of Music, studying solo piano performance. He also takes courses in Indigenous studies through the university’s Memegwaanh Indigenous Learning Honour program. Ryan has previously graduated from Brock University, Humber Polytechnic, the University of Manitoba, and Athabasca University, with additional diplomas in piano and organ performance, and piano pedagogy. Beyond academic life, Ryan is Music Director and Organist at Rowntree Memorial United Church in London. Previously, he held the same positions at Trillium United Church in St. Catharines. He has worked as a teaching assistant, collaborative pianist, piano and theory instructor, festival adjudicator, in-classroom mathematics tutor, course facilitator, English teacher in Thailand, and in various other education-related positions. When Ryan is not practicing, writing, or working, he can be found walking outside, cooking, baking, reading, and applying to more programs.

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