Photo by Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye.
Roger Admiral performs repertoire spanning the 17th through the 21st century. He works regularly with UltraViolet (New Music Edmonton) and Aventa Ensemble (Victoria). Roger also teaches piano at University of Alberta, Augustana Faculty.
Recent performances include György Ligeti's Piano Concerto with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, the complete piano works of Iannis Xenakis for Vancouver New Music, and recitals for Curto-Circuito de Música Contemporânea Brazil with saxophonist Allison Balcetis, for Lincoln Center's Great Performers series with baritone Nathan Berg, and Carnegie / Weill Hall with violinist Guillaume Tardif. In 2023 he will premiere Steven Takasugi's Klavierkonzert with the SWR Symphonieorchester for the Donaueschingen Musiktage.
UPCOMING
June 18, 2022
New Music Edmonton / Muttart Hall (Edmonton)
With UltraViolet Ensemble
New works by Lesley Hinger, Rebecca Bruton, Rio Houle and Diana Tayler
September 25, 2022
Philip T. Young Auditorium (Victoria)
With Aventa Ensemble
George Crumb - Music for a Summer Evening
October 1 / 2, 2022
University of Alberta Convocation Hall (Edmonton)
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre (Camrose)
With Robert Uchida, violin, and Rafael Hoekman, cello
Ludwig van Beethoven - Trio, Op. 70 No. 2
Johannes Brahms - Trio, Op. 8
October 14, 2022
New Music Edmonton / Muttart Hall (Edmonton)
With UltraViolet Ensemble
Barbara Assiginaak - new work
March, 2023
American Musicological Society Pacific Northwest Chapter, Augustana Chapel (Camrose)
With Guillaume Tardif, violin
Béla Bartók - First Sonata
Alban Berg - Piano Sonata
Arnold Schoenberg - Phantasy
Anton von Webern - Four Pieces, op. 7
March, 2023
American Musicological Society Pacific Northwest Chapter, Augustana Chapel (Camrose)
With Edmonton Saxophone Quartet
Howard Bashaw - 13 for Saxophone Quintet (first performance)
Anthony Tan - Pose II: On the Shadows of Ideas
Dorothy Chang - Five
Huck Hodge - mi'ma'amakin
June, 2023
New Music Edmonton
Liza Lim - The Four Seasons (after Cy Twombly)
Franco Donatoni - Françoise Variationen
William Northlich - Skybridge
Siaw Kin Lee - 32 miniatures - a set of three
October, 2023
Donaueschinger Musiktage, with the Südwestrundfunk Sinfonieorchester conducted by Titus Engel
Steven Takasugi - Piano Concerto (first performance)
February, 2024
Annesley Black - 4238 de Bullion
Annesley Black - a piece that is a size that is recognized as not a size but a piece
Stefan Prins - Piano Hero
Roger Admiral performs repertoire spanning the 17th through the 21st century. He works regularly with UltraViolet (New Music Edmonton) and Aventa Ensemble (Victoria). Roger also teaches piano at University of Alberta, Augustana Faculty.
Recent performances include György Ligeti's Piano Concerto with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, the complete piano works of Iannis Xenakis for Vancouver New Music, and recitals for Curto-Circuito de Música Contemporânea Brazil with saxophonist Allison Balcetis, for Lincoln Center's Great Performers series with baritone Nathan Berg, and Carnegie / Weill Hall with violinist Guillaume Tardif. In 2023 he will premiere Steven Takasugi's Klavierkonzert with the SWR Symphonieorchester for the Donaueschingen Musiktage.
UPCOMING
June 18, 2022
New Music Edmonton / Muttart Hall (Edmonton)
With UltraViolet Ensemble
New works by Lesley Hinger, Rebecca Bruton, Rio Houle and Diana Tayler
September 25, 2022
Philip T. Young Auditorium (Victoria)
With Aventa Ensemble
George Crumb - Music for a Summer Evening
October 1 / 2, 2022
University of Alberta Convocation Hall (Edmonton)
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre (Camrose)
With Robert Uchida, violin, and Rafael Hoekman, cello
Ludwig van Beethoven - Trio, Op. 70 No. 2
Johannes Brahms - Trio, Op. 8
October 14, 2022
New Music Edmonton / Muttart Hall (Edmonton)
With UltraViolet Ensemble
Barbara Assiginaak - new work
March, 2023
American Musicological Society Pacific Northwest Chapter, Augustana Chapel (Camrose)
With Guillaume Tardif, violin
Béla Bartók - First Sonata
Alban Berg - Piano Sonata
Arnold Schoenberg - Phantasy
Anton von Webern - Four Pieces, op. 7
March, 2023
American Musicological Society Pacific Northwest Chapter, Augustana Chapel (Camrose)
With Edmonton Saxophone Quartet
Howard Bashaw - 13 for Saxophone Quintet (first performance)
Anthony Tan - Pose II: On the Shadows of Ideas
Dorothy Chang - Five
Huck Hodge - mi'ma'amakin
June, 2023
New Music Edmonton
Liza Lim - The Four Seasons (after Cy Twombly)
Franco Donatoni - Françoise Variationen
William Northlich - Skybridge
Siaw Kin Lee - 32 miniatures - a set of three
October, 2023
Donaueschinger Musiktage, with the Südwestrundfunk Sinfonieorchester conducted by Titus Engel
Steven Takasugi - Piano Concerto (first performance)
February, 2024
Annesley Black - 4238 de Bullion
Annesley Black - a piece that is a size that is recognized as not a size but a piece
Stefan Prins - Piano Hero
