Italian pianist Erika Crinò is very active both as a chamber musician and a soloist, performing extensively both in North America and Europe. Several of her performances have been featured on CBC Radio as a soloist and in chamber music settings, collaborating with percussionist Salvador Ferreras, clarinetist Francois Houle, pianist Brett Kingsbury, and with soprano Vania Chan, winner of the special prize at the Eckhard-Grammattè Competition. |
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With sTREga, a chamber music group which she co-founded with clarinetist Katarzyna Marczak during her doctorate at the University of British Columbia, she performed extensively throughout Canada and Europe. The group was invited to perform at prestigious Music Festivals, among which the Edmonton Composers Concert Society, the New Music Festival of the University of Toronto, the Festival Incontri di Canna (Italy), and the Festival Musicale delle Nazioni al Teatro Marcello (Rome). Since her move to Toronto, Erika has been regularly heard in several important venues among which the CBC Glenn Gould Studio, where she performed Bach’s Triple Concerto with pianists Robert Silverman and Brett Kingsbury, and the Koffler Chamber Orchestra directed by Jacques Israelievitch, as well as premiered Michael Pepa’s Trema, for Piano, Percussion and Orchestra, with the Canadian Sinfonietta. Erika has performed at the historical Massey Hall directed by William Shookoff, at the University of Toronto where she collaborated with cellist David Hetherington, and Heliconian Hall and Gallery 345 in several productions by sTREga and LesAMIS Concerts, collaborating with pianist Marianna Humetska, flutist Kaili Maimets, violinist Lynn Kuo, among others. In duo with Marianna Humetska, she was also invited to perform at the 7th Meridian-ISCM International Festival in Bucharest, Romania.
Upcoming engagements include several solo recitals in Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria and the Ukraine, as well as the performance of Bach’s D Minor Concerto in the Ukraine and Bulgaria.
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