To mark Pride Month, join celebrated Canadian pianist  Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa for an evening performance of works by by Rodney Sharman, Leslie Uyeda, Camille Georgeson-Usher and SD Holman.

“The outrageously talented Vancouver pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa … deftly spans an array of atmospheres with impressive mastery and stylistic clarity.” — Jason van Eyk, Musicworks Magazine

Hailed in the press as a “keyboard virtuoso and avant-garde muse” (Georgia Straight) with the “emotional intensity” to take a piece “from notes on a page to a stunning work of art” (Victoria Times Colonist), Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa is recognized among Canada’s foremost contemporary music pianists.

Rachel has commissioned or premiered works by many of Canada’s most eminent composers, such as Hildegard Westerkamp, Rodney Sharman, Jocelyn Morlock, Nicole Lizée, Jordan Nobles, Jeffrey Ryan, Farshid Samandari, Marci Rabe, and Emily Doolittle. Rachel’s debut CD, Cosmophony, has been praised as “brilliant” and “unforgettable” (Vancouver Sun) and for “the passion, intensity and the nuanced playing she’s acclaimed for… she manages to instill a sense of dynamic tension and pull to every note” (The Province). Rachel was a co-founder of the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver, recognized as one of the top 5 festivals of its kind worldwide.

• Rachel Kiyo Iwaasapiano

Rodney Sharman (b. 1958)
The Garden
(Text by Peter Eliot Weiss; Drag makeup by Kim Farris-Manning)

Rodney Sharman (b. 1958)
Notes on “Beautiful”

Rodney Sharman (b. 1958)
Wounded (In Memoriam Claude Vivier)

Camille Georgeson-Usher
Through, in between Oceans, Part 2

Visual art by SD Holman; Text by Rachel Kayo Iwaasa
千代 Chiyo: A thousand generations

Leslie Uyeda
Hahawo Shinobite 母を偲びて

This event is part of our ChamberPride series, co-presented by the National Gallery of Canada in partnership with Qu’ART.

Please note that this programming includes mature themes and explicit vocabulary and is suitable for those 16 and over.