Amy performs with the Canadian Chamber Orchestra as part of the “Living Room Listening Party” This performance “emulates the familiar home environment, encouraging our audience to relax, and open their ears to a party of sound.”

Program includes works by Grieg, Radia, Lau, Montgomery, Shaw, Wijeratne and the Beatles.

Full details here.

Amy performs a recital with her York University colleagues that features music by faculty and student composers at York Music including Tariq Tabaqchali (BFA), Yulina Wong (BFA), Luis Ramirez (PhD), Stephanie Martin, Ron Westray, Al Henderson, Michael Coghlan, Matt Brubeck and Michael Cado.

Free admission.

Complete details here: https://music.ampd.yorku.ca/events/.

Amy plays music by Misato Mochizuki, Unsuk Chin and Rita Ueda with the Esprit Orchestra.

Collaborating with some of the world’s great orchestras, Esprit has co-commissioned Operascope for orchestra by Unsuk Chin and will give the work’s North American Premiere on this program. Operascope traces the history of operatic music – with references to Verdi, Puccini, Messiaen, Berg and Shostakovich. Azrieli Music Prize-winner Rita Ueda’s double concerto, with musicians positioned throughout Koerner Hall, blends Japanese, Chinese and Western influences with the Canadian landscape (especially bird calls) and pursues a new transcultural musical identity by asking what it means to migrate and settle on land already rich in history. Mochizuki’s musical collage intimates deep psychological transformations as described by Carl G. Jung and almost subliminally incorporates an homage to Robert Schumann.

Details here.

Hosted by Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Amy will team up with cellists Bryan Holt and Amahl Arulanandam of VC2 to perform an eclectic mix of music including the brand new “Fly with Crows” by Andrew Staniland. The concert will also feature special guest and pianist, Timothy Steeves. Free admission. More info here.

The West End Micro Music Festival continues with Concert #2. Program includes music by Linda Catlin Smith, Antonio Vivaldi and Nahre Sol. Complete details and tickets here.

The West End Micro Music Festival 2023: ANACHROPHONIA begins with CHRONOSYNTHEIS. Fusing old with new, CHRONOSYNTHESIS creates a soundscape that exists outside of time, melding sinfonias by Linda Catlin Smith (Canadian) and Vivaldi, and featuring the world premiere of new music by Nahre Sol. These polystylistic works will echo the anachronistic melding of Smith and Vivaldi, and showcase Sol performing simultaneously on two keyboards, the baroque harpsichord and modern synthesizer.

Program includes music by Linda Catlin Smith, Antonio Vivaldi and Nahre Sol.

Complete details and tickets here.

Works by Karol Szymanowski, John Adams, Vincent Ho, Mozart and a new world premiere by Matt Brubeck. Free admission.

As part of the Toronto Summer Music’s Community Chamber Music Program, Amy performs Dvorak and Mozart with adult amateur musicians. Information here.

An evening of chamber music with violinists Kerry DuWors, Catherine Cosbey and Amy Hillis, violist Eric Wong, cellist Arnold Choi, pianist Katherine Dowling and soprano Kyera Levesque. Details here. Purchase tickets here. Program includes:

David L. McIntyre: Serenade for Violin and Piano

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Dreams, Op. 38, No. 5

J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations arr. Sitkovetsky

Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte

Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now arr. Schaufele

Johannes Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18

An evening of chamber music with violinists Kerry DuWors, Catherine Cosbey and Amy Hillis, violist Eric Wong, cellist Arnold Choi, and pianist Katherine Dowling. Details here. Purchase tickets here. Program includes a visionary piano quintet by Florence B. Price.

Alongside pianist, Meagan Milatz, this recital explores connections between several Canadian compositions and works from the traditional canon of classical repertoire. Their program pairs Canadian composers including a recently commissioned piece by B.C.’s-own, Jocelyn Morlock with well-known icons such as Mozart that influenced these contemporary composers. This is an opportunity to discover a shared musical heritage that, while inspired by composers of centuries past, continues to develop its own Canadian character.

This concert is presented by the Powell River Academy of Music. Tickets can be purchased here. A complete program can be found on meagan&amy’s website.

Alongside pianist, Meagan Milatz, this recital explores connections between several Canadian compositions and works from the traditional canon of classical repertoire. Their program pairs Canadian composers including a recently commissioned piece by B.C.’s-own, Jocelyn Morlock with well-known icons such as Mozart that influenced these contemporary composers. This is an opportunity to discover a shared musical heritage that, while inspired by composers of centuries past, continues to develop its own Canadian character.

This concert is presented by the Pender Harbour Music Society. Tickets can be purchased here. A complete program can be found on meagan&amy’s website.

Alongside pianist, Meagan Milatz, this recital explores connections between several Canadian compositions and works from the traditional canon of classical repertoire. Their program pairs Canadian composers including a recently commissioned piece by B.C.’s-own, Jocelyn Morlock with well-known icons such as Mozart that influenced these contemporary composers. This is an opportunity to discover a shared musical heritage that, while inspired by composers of centuries past, continues to develop its own Canadian character.

This concert is presented by the Evergreen Cultural Centre. Tickets can be purchased here. A complete program can be found on meagan&amy’s website.

Alongside pianist, Meagan Milatz, this recital explores connections between several Canadian compositions and works from the traditional canon of classical repertoire. Their program pairs Canadian composers including a recently commissioned piece by B.C.’s-own, Jocelyn Morlock with well-known icons such as Mozart that influenced these contemporary composers. This is an opportunity to discover a shared musical heritage that, while inspired by composers of centuries past, continues to develop its own Canadian character.

This concert is presented by the Kicking Horse Culture. Tickets can be purchased here. A complete program can be found on meagan&amy’s website.

Alongside pianist, Meagan Milatz, this recital explores connections between several Canadian compositions and works from the traditional canon of classical repertoire. Their program pairs Canadian composers including a recently commissioned piece by B.C.’s-own, Jocelyn Morlock with well-known icons such as Mozart that influenced these contemporary composers. This is an opportunity to discover a shared musical heritage that, while inspired by composers of centuries past, continues to develop its own Canadian character.

This concert is presented by the North Okanagan Community Concert Assocation. Tickets can be purchased here. A complete program can be found on meagan&amy’s website.

Alongside pianist, Meagan Milatz, this recital explores connections between several Canadian compositions and works from the traditional canon of classical repertoire. Their program pairs Canadian composers including a recently commissioned piece by B.C.’s-own, Jocelyn Morlock with well-known icons such as Mozart that influenced these contemporary composers. This is an opportunity to discover a shared musical heritage that, while inspired by composers of centuries past, continues to develop its own Canadian character.

This concert is presented by the Creston Concert Society. Tickets can be purchased here. A complete program can be found at meagan&amy’s website.

As part of the Sound & Sense series, Amy performs chamber music by Canadian composers of Jewish background. Works on the program include Adieu Babylon by Sid Robinovitch with pianist Katherine Dowling as well as a clarinet quintet by Dr. Noam Lemish.

"Sound and Sense: Jewish Music @ York" is presented by the Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies and the Department of Music in the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design at York University. The series is made possible via the generous support of the Azrieli Foundation.

Alongside pianist, Meagan Milatz, this recital includes works by Jocelyn Morlock, Mozart, Sid Robinovitch, Ravel, Grieg and Yukon’s very own, Daniel Janke, In search of a classical Canadian musical identity, the duo explores connections between several Canadian compositions and works from the traditional canon of classical repertoire. Their program pairs Canadian composers including a recently commissioned piece by Jocelyn Morlock with well-known icons such as Mozart that influenced these contemporary composers. This is an opportunity to discover a shared musical heritage that, while inspired by composers of centuries past, continues to develop its own Canadian character.

A complete program can be found at meagan&amy’s website. We would like to thank Prairie Debut for their support in sponsoring this concert.

Alongside pianist, Meagan Milatz, this recital includes works by Jocelyn Morlock, Mozart, Sid Robinovitch, Ravel, Grieg and Yukon’s very own, Daniel Janke, In search of a classical Canadian musical identity, the duo explores connections between several Canadian compositions and works from the traditional canon of classical repertoire. Their program pairs Canadian composers including a recently commissioned piece by Jocelyn Morlock with well-known icons such as Mozart that influenced these contemporary composers. This is an opportunity to discover a shared musical heritage that, while inspired by composers of centuries past, continues to develop its own Canadian character.

A complete program can be found at meagan&amy’s website. We would like to thank Prairie Debut for their support in sponsoring this concert.

Amy joins cellists Bryan Holt and Amahl Arulanandam of VC2 to play a world premiere for 2 cellos and violin by Andrew Staniland.

Reimagining Living Ontologies is a project created by Ilze (Kavi) Briede, a PhD student in Digital Media at York University. It is a data art and immersive projection technological piece that uses scientific and artistic approaches in data visualisation systems. In these performances, Kavi will use computer software to visually express biophysical data from Amy as the sole performer in the dome. Amy’s heartbeat, breathing and muscle movements will generate audio-visual scenery inside an immersive 360 video projection dome. The result is an immersive, musical space using a 360-degree surround video-projected landscape that visually expresses and articulates the performer’s body in performance. More information about the project here.

Amy performs the following program with the Esprit Orchestra:

Colin McPhee -Tabuh-tabuhan (1936) for two pianos and orchestra

James O'Callaghan - Overbound (2022), a concerto for amplified cello, electronics and orchestra

Maki Ishii - Mono-prism (1976) for taiko drummers and orchestra

String quartets by Philip Glass, Caroline Shaw, Eleanor Alberga. More information here: westendmusic.ca

Solo and duo music including Nahre Sol’s piece for violin and piano titled “Mountain Goats”. More information here: westendmusic.ca

New chamber music, new art in Toronto’s West End. The 2022 West End Music Festival season is titled minMAX. Programmes juxtapose minimalism and maximalism, with a bit of a rock n roll perspective. Composers include Nico Muhly, Johannes Brahms, Gyorgy Kurtag and Nahre Sol. Info here: westendmusic.ca.

YorkU Music Professors Katherine Dowling (piano) and Amy Hillis (violin) will perform “Moto Perpetuo” by Dinuk Wijeratne as part of a musical celebration to kickstart the new academic year.

Amy leads community musicians from the Toronto area in some chamber music at the Toronto Summer Music Festival. The TSM Academy Community Program “is focused on providing learning and performance opportunities for advanced adult amateur musicians”. More information here.

Presented by Harbourfront Centre’s “Summer Music in the Garden” concert series, Amy joins forces with Métis musicians and composers to present chamber music by Patrick Carrabré, Ian Cusson and Neil Weisensel. Musicians include Rebecca Cuddy (mezzo-soprano), Gillian Carrabré (violin), Lawrence Schaufele (viola) and Ariel Carrabré (cello). Free admission. More information here.