Bryn Blackwood - Darkness and Light in the Music of Scriabin and Liszt

November 29, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
2025-11-29 14:00:00 2025-11-29 15:00:00 Bryn Blackwood - Darkness and Light in the Music of Scriabin and Liszt Gordon Lightfoot Concert Hall America/New_York

Bryn Blackwood - Darkness and Light in the Music of Scriabin and Liszt

About The Artists

Dr. Bryn Blackwood is a solo and collaborative pianist based in Toronto, Ontario, with a keen interest in 20th and 21st-century music. As the winner of
the 2019 Eckhardt-Grammatté National Music Competition, he embarked on a Canadian recital tour, bringing contemporary Canadian music to nine cities
across the country. More recently, he performed a recital tour of the Maritimes with Debut Atlantic. Several of his performances have been broadcast on
CBC radio. In 2019, Bryn was featured on the prestigious CBC 30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30 List, and was a finalist and winner of
the Paul J. Bourret Memorial Award for Best Performance of the Test Piece at the 2018 Shean Piano Competition.

A recipient of a Joseph-Armand Bombardier SSHRC award for his studies of the Russian-American piano composer Leo Ornstein, he published
his dissertation, "Dissonance Reimagined: Tone Clusters in Leo Ornstein's Early Piano Music," in 2022, while completing a Doctor of Musical Arts at the
University of Toronto. Formerly a student of the late acclaimed pedagogue Marietta Orlov, he has also studied with Ilya Poletaev and James Hibbard.
Bryn received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music from Western University and McGill University, respectively.
Also a dedicated teacher, Bryn teaches at the Lane School of Music in Toronto and maintains his own private piano studio. He has given masterclasses at Brandon University and Mt. Alison University.

Program

Franz Liszt - Consolations, S. 172
Alexander Scriabin - Vers la flamme, Op. 72
Scriabin - Five Preludes, Op. 16
Liszt - Apres une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata

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