Elaine Lau

Name:	Elaine Lau
Location:	Toronto Canada M6P 0A1
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Additional Info:	Elaine Lau is a Toronto-based pianist and toy pianist. Versatile as both a soloist and collaborative artist, she has appeared as keyboardist and soloist with Canadian orchestras, and broadcast on CBC Radio 2 and National Public Radio in the United States. Equally at home with the standard canon, Elaine also has an avid interest in the contemporary repertoire/new music for toy, solo and duo piano, and is active in the premiering of new works for these mediums. She has had the opportunity to collaborate with many composers, such as George Crumb, Canadians Linda Catlin Smith and WL Altman. Recent new music appearances include performances with the Canadian Chamber Ensemble, NUMUS, the Canadian Opera Company’s Piano Virtuoso concert series, and a solo recital at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario. As duo pianist with Joseph Ferretti, Elaine and Joseph have performed across Canada, including concerts at the Banff Centre, the Royal Conservatory of Music, McMaster University, and Mount Allison University. In the US, they performed at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Festival. The duo has premiered many works and in 2006, held an artist residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. As recording artists, they participated in a disc of music by Jack Behrens released in 2009 by Capstone Records entitled “Soliloquies”. As a founding member of junctQín, a keyboard collective of three devoted to performing new music, Elaine performed most recently at Toronto’s spOtlight Festival and Plein Air Concert Series. Performances in the 2009/2010 season included Artsweek Peterborough in September, and the Piano Virtuoso Series at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre in March. She has also given premieres of works by US composer Jack Behrens, such as the world premiere “No Wrong Notes” in 2002 at the Royal Conservatory of Music, and the Canadian premiere of German composer Moritz Eggert’s “One Man Band II” in February of 2010. Elaine has also given the Canadian premieres of duo piano works with Joseph Ferretti written by Gao Ping, a Chinese composer now residing in New Zealand, and of Eggert at Wilfrid Laurier University. Elaine was coach and repetiteur for the Opera Theatre of Lucca, Italy, and a collaborative pianist for the Glenn Gould School and the Young Artist Performance Academy at the Royal Conservatory of Music. In addition to performing, Elaine remains dedicated to teaching: she has taught at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts and is active as an adjudicator and RCM/NMCP examiner in Canada and the USA. She currently teaches piano at Wilfrid Laurier University, a post she has held since 2003, while maintaining a private studio in Toronto. Elaine holds graduate degrees in Piano Performance and Piano Pedagogy from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Eugene and Elizabeth Pridonoff and the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music. Influential teachers include Peter Longworth, Valerie Tryon, June Caskey, Gwen Beamish, Golda Wainberg-Tatz and Karl Ulrich Schnabel.
Fees:	Rehearsals $60/hr Performances start at $80 for festivals, RCM Exams University auditions & recital rate by request (includes rehearsal)
Instruments:	Piano
Additional Specialisms:	Contemporary Music, Instrumental Accompaniment, Vocal Accompaniment

Elaine Lau

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