About Joan Forsyth

Canadian pianist Joan Forsyth is a multi-faceted musician who has received critical acclaim as a soloist and chamber music artist. She has been heard throughout Europe, Japan, South and North America in a wide range of repertoire, embracing the standard piano literature as well as the most recent works. Her prize-winning performances in the 1990 Concerts Atlantique and La Gesse competitions set in motion tours of France and Switzerland, and since that time she has maintained a lively concert schedule. She has collaborated with such ensembles as the Cassatt Quartet, the Theater Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center and CYGNUS, and appeared as soloist with the Westchester Philharmonic and the Westchester Chamber Orchestra. She toured the Netherlands and Scandinavia with CYGNUS and a program of new American music in 1997 and then travelled with theat ensemble again to Russia in 1998. She performed in Tokyo with Trio Spark! in 2006. Her performances have been broadcast over WNYC, WFAS, Vermont and New York Public Radio, RAI Italy, Radio Denmark and Polish National Radio.

Ms. Forsyth also makes recital appearances with duo-partner guitarist William Anderson, most recently an Italian tour and a concert dedicated to the Segovia repertoire at carnegie Recital hall in 2007. The two premiered and recorded Charles Wuorinen’s Sonata for Piano and Guitar the works of composer Meyer Kupferman on the Soundspells label. Other recordings have been for CRI and Furious Artisans.

In 1992 Ms. Forsyth’s interest in new American music led her to form the Stein Hall Players, an ensemble devoted to contemporary music. The group produced the American Mosaic series in Westchester throughout the 90s, featuring celebrated guest artists and the premieres of many new works. Members of that group went on to form the Cerwydden Trio, a flute, cello and piano trio that has played to great acclaim in festivals and chamber music venues on the East Coast. The Cerwydden Trio performs repertoire that spans a time period from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century, combining Ms. Forsyth’s many musical loves.

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