Diana Dumlavwalla
Friday, October 28, 2011
7:30 pm
Diana Dumlavwalla recently became the first pianist to receive the Doctor of Musical Arts Performance degree at the University of Toronto. She studied piano with the renowned soloist and chamber musician, James Parker. She also completed significant pedagogical research under the direction of Midori Koga, a highly-regarded professor in the field of pedagogy. Diana is a member of the keyboard faculty at the University of Windsor. She is also Director of the Children’s Piano Pedagogy Program at the University of Toronto, a member of the Royal Conservatory of Music’s College of Examiners and a private teacher in Brantford.
Diana has given solo, concerto and chamber performances in Canada, Europe and the United States. Along with violinist, Emma Banfield, she is the pianist of the San Agustin Duo. Her numerous awards include prizes at the Royal College of Music Contemporary Piano Music Competition and the NUMUS Pan-Am Chamber Music Competition. She was nationally recognized when she received the Marusia Yaworska Scholarship and the Elizabeth Massey Award from the Canadian Federation of University Women.
Prior to receiving her Master of Music degree from the Royal College of Music in London, England, Diana completed a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and Voice from Wilfrid Laurier University and Associate diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music. She has also studied with many fine pedagogues including Agnes Olsheski, Virginia Blaha of Brantford, Heather Taves, Yonty Solomon and Logan Skelton. Diana has also received intensive vocal training. She began in Port Hope with Elizabeth Kellogg and continued in Brantford with Irena and José Hernández. At Laurier, she studied with Patricia Pascoe and Kimberly Barber and continued with Roderick Earle in London.
This is Diana's third appearance with the Brantford Music Club. In 1997, she was featured in the Young Artists' Recital as a vocalist and again in 1999 as a pianist. She is excited to be performing once again for a hometown crowd!
Programme
Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major, BWV 846 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Volume 1
by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Los Requiebros (Flattery)
Quejas ó la Maja y el Ruiseñor (Laments or the Maja and the Nightingale)
Elmor y la Muerte: Balada (Love and Death: Ballade)
from Goyescas
by Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Memories In An Ancient Gardenfrom Scenes from a Jade Terrace
by Alexina Louie (b. 1949)
~Intermission~
Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata
from Années de Pèlerinage: Deuxième année, Italie, S. 161
by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
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