Sarah Hagen - Music For An Autumn Morning

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Friday, October 11th, 2019
10:30 AM

Pianist Sarah Hagen returns to the Comox Valley to perform works by Scarlatti, Chopin, and Mozart. This will be a programme of cozy and familiar music, all perfect for an autumn morning.

Tickets are $24, including all taxes and fees, can be purchased online at https://sarahhagen.tickit.ca/

For more information, or to reserve tickets and pay with cash or cheque, contact Sarah directly at (416) 454-2363, or [email protected]

Please note: this concert will take place at Comox United Church, located at 250 Beach Drive in Comox.

About Sarah Hagen:

Awarded as Artist of the Year by both Ontario Contact (2017) and the BC Touring Council (2015), and mentioned by The Guardian (Charlottetown) as the Best Classical Performance of 2014, Sarah’s extensive touring has taken her across Canada, to Sweden, France, Germany and Italy, and twice to New York City’s Carnegie Hall. She has appeared as soloist with the Victoria Symphony, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the West Coast Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Pacific, and the Nanaimo Chamber Orchestra. Her debut solo album, Glass House Dancing, was nominated for Classical Recording of the Year at the 2009 Western Canadian Music Awards. In 2013 she released her second album, Devoted: Music of Robert & Clara Schumann, featuring solo piano works and Clara Schumann’s Romances, Opus 22 with violinist Martin Chalifour, concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Her collaboration “Exultation” with Canadian Slam Poetry Champion Brendan McLeod explores Rachmaninoff’s complete Opus 32 Preludes through poetry and storytelling and premiered to critical acclaim in 2017. Sarah also tours a one-woman musical comedy show called “Perk up, pianist!” of which the Edmonton Journal wrote, “Her comic timing is as solid as her musical meter.”

Select Reviews:

“...the level of passion that Hagen possesses - when it comes to experiencing, interpreting and ex- pressing art - is something quite extraordinary. It does seem to be this deep level of artistic under- standing, and ability to communicate on this level - either through words or through artistic expression - that truly sets her apart as a pianist and musical artist. ...it was immediately apparent that this would be a piano concert beyond the norm. ...Hagen is one of the most expressive piano players that I have ever seen perform. ” - The Guardian (Charlottetown)

“If all you wanted was a marvellously handled piece of difficult piano music, it would be hard to ask for more. Hagen did much more than just hit the notes in the right spots. [...] Hagen’s performance has made me reconsider my classical music likes and dislikes.” - Smithers Interior News

Mozart's D minor Fantasy K. 397, “played flawlessly by Sarah

Hagen” - Review Vancouver Hagen played “with great sensitivity and heart.” - Vernon Morning Star

“Her Bach and Haydn were outstandingly inventive” - University of Waterloo Gazette