EVENTS
Sun, June 23, 2024 7:00pm EDT
Empowered by Friendship Concert Series: Duo Dances violin/piano recital
In Duo Dances, you are invited to join three musician friends on a worldwide trip through exciting and unforgettable pieces from Italy, China, Mongolia, Canada, USA, and Romania! Violinist Alessia Disimino and pianist Jialiang Zhu are great friends in life and longtime partners in music. They cannot wait to share with you music that represents their respective cultures and music that they both admire. Guest violinist Heng-Han Hou will join the party to make it even livelier!
This recital concludes the Empowered by Friendship Concert Series, generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Government, Ontario Arts Council, and Canadian Music Centre.
Canadian Music Centre,
Toronto ON M4Y 1J9
918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education, Toronto ON M5R 3G3
Sun, June 9, 2024 7:00pm EDT
Bedford Trio Presents IMMERSED 3.0
In Duo Dances, you are invited to join three musician friends on a worldwide trip through exciting and unforgettable pieces from Italy, China, Mongolia, Canada, USA, and Romania! Violinist Alessia Disimino and pianist Jialiang Zhu are great friends in life and longtime partners in music. They cannot wait to share with you music that represents their respective cultures and music that they both admire. Guest violinist Heng-Han Hou will join the party to make it even livelier!
This recital concludes the Empowered by Friendship Concert Series, generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Government, Ontario Arts Council, and Canadian Music Centre.
Sun, May 26, 2024 3:00pm EDT
Empowered by Friendship Concert Series: Dialogues - a solo piano journey
Join Jialiang in her solo piano recital Dialogues to discover piano music written by an array of fantastic Canadian and international composers. Accompanied by the aromatic drinks from Haku Tea, a Toronto-based premium Taiwanese oolong tea shop, this afternoon guarantees to be a captivating and inspiring journey where guests will have meaningful dialogues between music and another subject, such as poetry, language, religion, mental health, and self-discovery.
This recital is part of the Empowered by Friendship Concert Series. Jialiang is deeply grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Government, Ontario Arts Council, and the Canadian Music Centre for their generous support.
Canadian Music Centre,
Toronto ON M4Y 1J9
Timothy Eaton Memorial Church,
230 St Clair Ave W, Toronto,
ON M4V 1R5
Sun, April 21, 2024 7:00pm EDT
Winners Concert:
Bedford Trio X Unionville Music Competition
Bedford Trio is proud to promote local talents and support the next-generation artists. We are thrilled to collaborate with the Unionville Music Competition and feature the two winners from the Bedford Trio Class in our concert! Colin Zhang (piano) will join us to play Beethoven's Piano Trio No. 4 in B flat Major, Op. 11 (i. Allegro con brio, ii. Adagio), and Ho Mei (Edith) Suen (piano) will join us to perform Clara Schumann's Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17 (i. Allegro moderato, ii. Scherzo and Trio). The program will be completed by Bedford Trio's performance of Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, D. 929 and Piazzolla's Four Seasons in Buenos Aires (selected movements).
Violin/Piano Duo Recitals
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 12:10pm EDT
Yorkminster Baptist Church,
1585 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M4T 1Z9
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 12:00pm EDT
Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Ave.
Toronto, ON M5G 2C4
Friday, April 26, 2024 12:10pm EDT
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 73 Simcoe Street,
Toronto, ON M5J 1W9
All three concerts are free admission
Rebanks Fellow and award-winning violinist Julia Mirzoev joins forces with Jialiang to present a fascinating program featuring Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor, Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capricioso, Paganini 3 solo caprices, and solo piano music by Canadian composers David Jaeger, Kathryn Knowles and Edward Enman.
Recent Events
Thursday-Friday, Feb. 22-23, 2024
"Dream Big" Collaborative Piano Conference
University of Manitoba;
Canadian Museum of Human Rights
Jialiang is grateful to returns to the one-and-only collaborative piano conference in Canada. hosted by the Desautels Faculty of Music, University of Manitoba and the Canada Museum of Human Rights. UK-based American soprano and Chinese art song specialist Juliet Petrus co-presents with Jialiang a panel discussion on building a global movement of Chinese art song, along with four leading scholars/performers - Dr. Mei Zhong (US), Fleur Barron (UK), Helen Zhibing Huang (US), and Alex Chen (Canada).
Juliet and Jialiang are excited to join nearly 40 other performers to present Chinese art song and opera aria on Day 2 of the Dream Big Conference at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. The experience is made even more special with the performance located in the section where the history of Chinese immigration to Canada is displayed.
Sat. Feb. 3, 2024 Cosmos
University of Toronto New Music Festival
Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto, ON M5S 2C5
Bedford Trio is honoured and excited to return to the University of Toronto New Music Festival! And this is also the debut performance of the new version of our Trio - with the fantastic cellist Emma Schmiedecke! We are proud to share the stage with the acclaimed Bridge and Wolak Duo in this "Cosmos" themed recital. Program features Flashbacks (Wendy Lee), Big Sky (Joan Tower), Maker of the World (Anthony Gunadi, winner of the 2023-24 U of T Piano Trio Composition Competition), Moon Trio (Robert Paterson), and Dance of the Blind (Marjan Mozetich, the 2024 Roger D. Moore Distinguished Visitor in Composition at U of T), alongside programming by Bridge & Wolak Duo.
Sun. Jun. 25, 2023 1914
918 Bathurst St. Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education,
Toronto, ON M5R 3G5
In Bedford Trio's 2022/23 season finale, join us on a journey through the year that the Great War began. 1914 was a year of wonderful achievements and milestones, such as the first commercial air travel, baseball legend Babe Ruth's debut, and the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial laid, but it also was a year full of building international tension, which ultimately led to the beginning of World War 1, which would change the world forever.
1914 also saw the creation of one of the great classical masterpieces: Maurice Ravel's Piano Trio in A Minor. This monumental work takes the listener on a journey through a tumultuous time in the composer's life, exploring themes of loss and acceptance, as well as undertones of a building crisis that he surely experienced while living in France.
Punctuated by songs from composers such as Irving Berlin, Victor Herbert, and W.C. Handy, and performed by the exquisite guest artist Ekaterina Shelehova, the "1914" concert will take the audience on a journey through a year that began with hope and ended in chaos. As we reflect on this unforgettable year in our history, music will provide a soundtrack and a beacon of hope, and will continue to remind us that there is beauty in a world that can sometimes be more volatile than we would like it to be.
Sun. Apr. 2, 2023 IMMERSED 2.0
918 Bathurst St. Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education,
Toronto, ON M5R 3G5
The second edition of Bedford Trio's IMMERSED series features newly commissioned works by young composers from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Earl Haig Secondary School's Music Department. Each piece will be paired with a newly commissioned piece of visual artwork, created by local visual artists.
Located in the heart of downtown Toronto, this is the perfect event for your evening artistic experience in the heart of Toronto. Presented by one of Toronto's finest chamber music ensembles, prepare to be immersed in the aesthetic sound-world of this one-of-a-kind concert experience.
Sun. Jan. 29, 2023 Bedford Trio & Friends
918 Bathurst St. Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education,
Toronto, ON M5R 3G5
Bedford Trio is excited to present our first piano trio PLUS concert, with the amazing violist Maxime Despax and composer Saman Shahi! Featured works include Brahms Piano Quartet in C minor, Bach Goldberg Variations for String Trio, Dohnanyi Serenade for String Trio, and Shahi's "Elegy for the Falling Leaves." We'd like to express our deepest gratitude towards Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education for their generous support! For tickets, click here.
Tues. Jan. 10, 2023 The Power of Words
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre, 145 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M5H 4G1
A crossroad of poetry and music from different cultures in four languages, this program showcases songs in English, French, German, and Mandarin written by Canadian and international composers and poets.
Sun. Nov. 6, 2022 Silver Screen
918 Bathurst St. Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education,
Toronto, ON M5R 3G5
Welcome to Bedford Trio's 2022-2023 season! First of all, we'd like to express our deepest gratitude towards Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education for their generous support! We are truly grateful to be able to continue making art and serving our community during this tremendously challenging time. The first concert of our season features many familiar soundtracks arranged for piano trio and will take you down the memory lane of your favourite films! For tickets, click here.
Tues. May. 31, 2022
Singing Chinese Classical Poetry
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre, 145 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M5H 4G1
Jialiang and her amazing vocalist team join the Canadian Opera Company in celebrating the Asian Heritage Month! Together with three talented and dynamic sopranos - Xin Wang, Emily Lapin, Maeve Palmer, Jialiang will present poetry that is written thousands years ago and set in song by composers from diverse Chinese-speaking communities around the world in the past one hundred years. Come hear the dialogue across time and culture and experience some powerful universal human experience through stunning poetry and music!
Sat. Mar. 19, 2022 Immersed
Ernest Balmer Studio, 315-9 Trinity Street, The Distillery Historic District, Toronto, ON M5A 3C4
Welcome back to Bedford Trio's 2021-2022 season! Continuing our mission of collaborating with local fellow artists, we will be showcasing the amazing talent of young composers from the Earl Haig Secondary School and University of Toronto. In the past three years, we have had the fortune to work with students in both institutions and received piano trio pieces written for our ensemble. It is a tremendous joy and honour to build connections with fellow composers; and together we contribute to expanding the Canadian chamber music repertoire. Furthermore, we will be infusing digital art by local artists in this programme to provide you with a multisensory concert experience. Come join us to witness the world premiere of these Canadian works!
Thur. Mar. 24, 2022 Festival of Song
live-stream at https://youtu.be/L4vP82yD3YU
Welcome to the opening concert of the University of Toronto's Festival of Song, where Jialiang joins forces with the exceptional soprano Katy Clark in a song recital. The programme explores music by four female composers - Cecil Chaminade, Rebecca Clarke, Ana Sokolović, and Alice Ping Yee Ho - with poetry written in French, English, German, and Mandarin-Chinese.
In the summer of 2021, Jialiang had the great pleasure and fortune to work with Katy on composer Alice Ping Yee Ho's upcoming album for high voices and piano. Although only collaborating for the first time, the two artists immediately found special sparks and greatly admired each other's musicianship. Click here to learn more about Katy and hear her beautiful performances.
Wed. Dec.8, 2021 “古韵新唱”
UTCAA X Jialiang 多伦多大学华人校友会线上系列讲座
中国流行歌后王菲在一曲《但愿人长久》中以其缥缈的声线，将近千年前古人皓月当空、骨肉分離的情怀淋漓尽致地展现，撩动今人心弦。作为东方文化瑰宝的中文古典诗词如果和西方古典音乐结合会产生什么样的艺术火花呢？儿时熟读的古诗词在西洋曲调的衬托下又会给我们带来什么不同的感受呢？欢迎大家周三12月8号美东时间晚7-8点加入多伦多大学华人校友会的线上系列讲座，届时嘉亮将带领大家探索中文古诗词艺术歌曲的魅力！
Jialiang is thrilled to join UTCAA (University of Toronto Chinese Alumni Association)'s online lecture this coming Wednesday, Dec.8th, at 7-8pm EST and share with you the beauty and depth of art song inspired by classical Chinese poetry. Many familiar classical poems that native Chinese speakers grew up with have been set to music in the idiom of Western art song by composers around the world. What would result from the merging of these two art forms? And how do musicians from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds interpret these songs? Join us to explore more this coming Wednesday! Simply click on "Go to Link" on the event page below to register. The lecture will be delivered in Mandarin.
Tues. Dec.14, 2021 Music Mosaic
Timothy Eaton Memorial Church,
230 St. Clair Ave. W, Toronto, ON M4V 1R5
(416) 925-8494, info@temc.ca
or via live-stream at https://www.temc.ca/musicalmosaic
Bedford Trio is thrilled to join the Timothy Eaton Memorial Church's Music Mosaic Series and warm up your holidays with some festive music! Please check back for programme updates.