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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.
RECENT AND UPCOMING CONCERTS:
April 9, 2021
University of Alberta Faculty of Arts YouTube channel link
Mark Hannesson - Constellations
Scott Smallwood - Quiet City
Gordon Fitzell - kamelyn
April 29, 2021
University of Alberta Augustana Faculty YouTube channel link
Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Op. 31 #3, 13, 90, and 22
May 29, 2021
Congress 2021 at Convocation Hall (Edmonton)
George Lewis - Impromptu: link to video
George Lewis - Shadowgraph, 5: link to video
July 31, 2021
Aventa Ensemble, Victoria
studio recording for release on Redshift, and via Avenue Ensemble this fall
Gilles Tremblay - Champs I; Phases; Réseaux; Traçantes (auprès, au loin...)
November 12, 2021
Aventa Ensemble, Victoria
Binaural Conference, linked with IRCAM (Paris), and studio recording
Philippe Leroux - VOI (rex)
November 27, 2021
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Centre for the Performing Arts (Camrose)
Franz Schubert - Impromptus, Op. 90
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Rondo in a, K.511
Johannes Brahms - Handel Variations, Op. 24
Postponed from March 22, 2020 New Music Edmonton, Piano Recital
Franco Donatoni - Françoise Variationen
Liza Lim - The Four Seasons
Heera Kim - Meuni II; Par I
Robert HP Platz - Kessel
March, 2022
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, 2022
Augustana Chapel (Camrose)
With Edmonton Saxophone Quartet
Howard Bashaw - 13 for Saxophone Quintet
Anthony Tan - Pose II
Dorothy Chang - Five
Huck Hodge - mi'ma'amakin
April, 2022
Edmonton, space tba
UltraViolet Ensemble
New works by Rebecca Bruton, Heather Hindman, Lesley Hinger, Emilie LeBel, Giorgio Magnanensi, Roxanne Nesbitt, and James O'Callaghan
June, 2022
Studio recording with percussionist William Linwood
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte
Postponed from October 18, 2020
Donaueschinger Musiktage, with the Südwestrundfunk Sinfonieorchester conducted by Titus Engel
Steven Takasugi - Piano Concerto Postponed to 2023
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.
RECENT AND UPCOMING CONCERTS:
April 9, 2021
University of Alberta Faculty of Arts YouTube channel link
Mark Hannesson - Constellations
Scott Smallwood - Quiet City
Gordon Fitzell - kamelyn
April 29, 2021
University of Alberta Augustana Faculty YouTube channel link
Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Op. 31 #3, 13, 90, and 22
May 29, 2021
Congress 2021 at Convocation Hall (Edmonton)
George Lewis - Impromptu: link to video
George Lewis - Shadowgraph, 5: link to video
July 31, 2021
Aventa Ensemble, Victoria
studio recording for release on Redshift, and via Avenue Ensemble this fall
Gilles Tremblay - Champs I; Phases; Réseaux; Traçantes (auprès, au loin...)
November 12, 2021
Aventa Ensemble, Victoria
Binaural Conference, linked with IRCAM (Paris), and studio recording
Philippe Leroux - VOI (rex)
November 27, 2021
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Centre for the Performing Arts (Camrose)
Franz Schubert - Impromptus, Op. 90
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Rondo in a, K.511
Johannes Brahms - Handel Variations, Op. 24
Postponed from March 22, 2020 New Music Edmonton, Piano Recital
Franco Donatoni - Françoise Variationen
Liza Lim - The Four Seasons
Heera Kim - Meuni II; Par I
Robert HP Platz - Kessel
March, 2022
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, 2022
Augustana Chapel (Camrose)
With Edmonton Saxophone Quartet
Howard Bashaw - 13 for Saxophone Quintet
Anthony Tan - Pose II
Dorothy Chang - Five
Huck Hodge - mi'ma'amakin
April, 2022
Edmonton, space tba
UltraViolet Ensemble
New works by Rebecca Bruton, Heather Hindman, Lesley Hinger, Emilie LeBel, Giorgio Magnanensi, Roxanne Nesbitt, and James O'Callaghan
June, 2022
Studio recording with percussionist William Linwood
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte
Postponed from October 18, 2020
Donaueschinger Musiktage, with the Südwestrundfunk Sinfonieorchester conducted by Titus Engel
Steven Takasugi - Piano Concerto Postponed to 2023
