March 13-14, 2026
Day 1: The Gryphon Trio
Friday, March 13, 19:30
La Fab sur Mill, Chelsea
Program to include:
Antonin Dvorak: Piano Trio no. 3 in F minor, op. 65
Kelly-Marie Murphy: Give me Phoenix Wings to Fly Dinuk Wijeratne: Love Triangle
Artists:
The Gryphon Trio:
Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin
Roman Borys, cello
Jamie Parker, piano
Leading Canada’s chamber music scene for the past 30 years, the endlessly inventive Gryphon Trio has captivated their audiences with dynamic, deeply expressive performances. Recognized among the world’s leading piano trios, the Gryphon bridges tradition and innovation with repertoire spanning European classicism to 21st-century multimedia, redefining chamber music for today. The trios 22 acclaimed recordings have garnered numerous accolades, including three Junos. The program they’ll play in Chelsea features, among other things, works by Ottawa-based composers Kelly-Marie Murphy and Dinuk Wijeratne.
Day 2: The Forest
Saturday, March 14, 16:30 (pre-concert talk 15:30)
Centre Wakefield La Pêche, Wakefield
Program to include:
Carson Becke: The Forest - A Symphonic Song Cycle (world premiere)
Ralph Vaughan-Williams: Songs of Travel (excerpts, arr. for piano trio + voice)
Oscar Navarro: Creation (excerpts)
Antonin Dvorak: From the Bohemian Forest (excerpts)
Jeffrey Ryan: Chimera
Artists:
Meghan Lindsay, soprano
Juan-Gabriel Olivares, clarinet
Carson Becke, piano
Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin
Roman Borys, cello
Jamie Parker, piano
This concert, presented collaboratively by Festival Collines-en-musique founders Carson Becke, Meghan Lindsay, and Juan Olivares with the Gryphon Trio, is a celebration of the forests that surround us here in the Gatineau Hills. The centrepiece of the program is Carson Becke’s new song cycle, The Forest. Based on texts by six poets with deep relationships to these hills - Alice-Irene Whittaker, Quinn McCart, Ilse Turnsen, Madeline Kerr, Peter Mullins, and Chris MacLean - the cycle explores the intimate and personal connections that we all feel with the birches, oaks, willows, pines, hemlocks, cedars, and elms that surround us.
To find our more about the song cycle, its creation, and the specific trees behind each poem, join Carson and the poets for a pre-concert discussion in Gwen Shea hall at 3:30pm (free entry for all).
