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Eve Egoyan is an internationally celebrated artist whose medium is the piano. She continually re-invents her relationship with her instrument through the creation and commissioning of new works which she has performed around the world.

Eve trained in classical repertoire at the Victoria Conservatory of Music; the University of Victoria with Eva Solar-Kinderman; the Banff Centre of Fine Arts with György Sebök; the Hochschule der Künste in West Berlin with Georg Sava (German Academic Exchange Scholarship); the Royal Academy of Music in London, England, with Hamish Milne (Commonwealth Scholarship). She completed her M.Mus. at the University of Toronto with Patricia Parr (Chalmers Award). Eve is an elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London.

Eve followed her curiosity into the world of contemporary music since arriving in Toronto thirty years ago, inspired by an emerging generation of Toronto-based composers. She has recorded twelve solo CDs which have received accolades including “Best Classical” The Globe and Mail (1999) for her first solo CD, one of “Ten Top” classical discs, New Yorker magazine (2009), and “Top Classical Disc of the Year”, The Globe and Mail (2011). These discs primarily feature works which Eve commissioned. Renowned composers James Tenney (U.S./ Canada), Alvin Curran (U.S.), Ann Southam (Canada), Rudolf Komorous (Canada), Maria de Alvear (Germany), Michael Finnissy (Britain), Karen Tanaka (Japan), Martin Arnold (Canada), Linda Catlin Smith (Canada) and Jo Kondo (Japan) have written for her amongst many others.

Eve is one of Canada’s primary ambassadors for Canadian music abroad. She is one of fifty Canadian performers and conductors given and designation of “CMC Ambassador” by the Canadian Music Centre. Eve has performed as a solo artist at the following international festivals amongst others: Canberra International, Festival, Luminato Festival, Sydney Festival, Klangspuren Festival, Transart Festival, Modulus Festival, PuSh Festival, Huddersfield Festival, ISCM (Vancouver), Kwadrofonik Festival, Other Minds Festival, Images Festival, 21C Festival, Nuit Blanche (Paris), Sound Symposium, Open Ears Festival, Dias da Música, Festival Domaine Forget, Vancouver International New Music Festival, and the Kobe International Modern Music Festival.

Eve received New Chapters funding from the Canada Council in 2017 to develop SOLO FOR DUET. In this work, she takes her piano explorations to a new level delving deeper into her dreams of what the piano can be by augmenting its capacities and challenging its history. SOLO FOR DUET premiered at the Luminato Festival in Toronto and has performed internationally. Su Rynard created a feature length film documenting this work, “Duet for Solo Piano”, which is available internationally.

Eve began working with new technologies in 2009 when the Open Ears Festival, Kitchener, commissioned Surface Tension (for disklavier and interactive video), a collaboration media artist David Rokeby. Eve more recently created a series of works for herself which delve into the space between “what a piano can do” and “what I wish a piano could do” combining acoustic piano with new technologies. Eve premiered eight new compositions in January 2022 at the 21C Music Festival, Koerner Hall, alongside “Études for Augmented Piano” (film) by Su Rynard. Eve was invited to residencies at Avatar (Quebec City) the University of Toronto, and CMMAS (Mexico), for the development of this work.

Eve presently continues to create new works for augmented/acoustic piano including new commissions and new collaborations (with animator Christopher Hinton and improviser/composer Mauricio Pauly) alongside a full interpretative practice of other composers’ work.

Eve is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) and an elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London, England (ARAM). She has also been selected as one of 25 top Canadian pianists of all time by the CBC. Other honours include numerous commissions and awards from the Canada Council, Ontario and Toronto Arts Councils, FACTOR, a Muriel Sherrin Award for music performance (Toronto Arts Foundation), a University of Victoria Distinguished Alumna Award, a K.M. Hunter Award, a Chalmers Award and a Chalmers Arts Fellowship.