Celebrated as “exquisite” by the Philadelphia Inquirer and a “pianist of exceptional talent” by Gramophone, Grammy Award–winning pianist Michelle Cann is one of the most sought-after artists of her generation. Recent engagements include appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the São Paulo Municipal Symphony Orchestra. She has received the Sphinx Medal of Excellence and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, and was the inaugural Christel DeHaan Artistic Partner of the American Piano Awards.

Highlights of Cann’s 2025–2026 season include performances with the Colorado Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. She also gives the world premiere of a new piano concerto by Valerie Coleman with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. Her recital engagements include Stanford Live, Music Toronto, Chamber Music Detroit, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Spivey Hall, and a recital tour in China.

Recognized as one of the leading interpreters of Florence Price’s piano music, Cann gave the New York premiere of Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement with The Dream Unfinished Orchestra in 2016. Her recording of the concerto with the New York Youth Symphony won a Grammy Award in 2023 for Best Orchestral Performance. She won another Grammy Award in 2025 for Beyond the Years: Unpublished Songs of Florence Price, recorded with soprano Karen Slack, featuring 19 previously unpublished songs by Price. Her acclaimed debut solo album, Revival, featuring works by Price and Margaret Bonds, was released in 2023.

Cann holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and an artist diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music. She joined the piano faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music in 2020 as the first holder of the Eleanor Sokoloff Chair in Piano Studies, and she also teaches piano at the Manhattan School of Music.

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Composer and pianist Timo Andres (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

2023/24 highlights include a solo recital debut for Carnegie Hall, new commissions for the Moab Music Festival and the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, a tour with the Calder Quartet including performances at San Francisco Performances and Chamber Music Albuquerque, and the world premiere of a piano concerto for Aaron Diehl at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by John Adams. Andres’s orchestrations and arrangements for Justin Peck’s new production of Sufjan Stevens’s Illinoise, were premiered in a sold-out Summer 2023 run at The Fisher Center at Bard; the production has upcoming dates in Chicago, New York and elsewhere.

Notable works include Everything Happens So Much for the Boston Symphony; Strong Language for the Takács Quartet, commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Shriver Hall Concert Series; Steady Hand, a two-piano concerto commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia premiered at the Barbican by Andres and David Kaplan; and The Blind Banister, a concerto for Jonathan Biss, which was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist.

As a pianist, Timo Andres has appeared with the LA Phil, North Carolina Symphony, the Albany Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Metropolis Ensemble, among others. He has performed solo recitals for Lincoln Center, and Wigmore Hall.

Collaborators include Becca Stevens, Jeffrey Kahane, Gabriel Kahane, Brad Mehldau, Nadia Sirota, and Philip Glass, who selected Andres as the recipient of the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize. He was nominated for a Grammy award for his performances on 2021’s The Arching Path, an album of music by Christopher Cerrone.

Andres’s collaborations with Sufjan Stevens also include his May 2023 recording with Conor Hanick of Stevens’s latest album, Reflections; arrangements of ballets for New York City Ballet, and a solo piano album, The Decalogue.

A Nonesuch Records artist, Timo Andres has multiple solo albums on the label (with more set for upcoming release in 2024) and is featured as composer and pianist on the May 2020 release I Still Play, an album celebrating Robert Hurwitz. A Yale School of Music graduate, he is a Yamaha/Bösendorfer Artist and is on the composition faculty at the Mannes School of Music at the New School.

A passionate communicator, Daniel brings clarity and meaning to the concert hall, fostering deep connections between audiences and performers. Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser is concurrently the Principal Youth Conductor and Creative Partner of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Principal Education Conductor and Community Ambassador of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Artist in Residence and Community Ambassador of Symphony Nova Scotia, and Resident Conductor of Engagement and Education of the San Francisco Symphony.

He served as Assistant Conductor of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and Associate Conductor of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. Daniel has performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, and was Cover Conductor with the Washington National Opera in 2020.

In the 2021 Season Daniel will debut with the Carnegie Hall Link-Up Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Regina Symphony Orchestra, the Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra and the Canadian Opera Company.

Daniel is the host of Canadian Broadcasting Company’s nationally broadcast weekly radio show Centrestage.

He was also the subject of an award-winning, full-length Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary called Disruptor Conductor, focusing on his concerts for Neurodiverse, Prison, African Diaspora and LGBTQ2S+ populations.

Daniel earned his Bachelors in Music Performance and Education from the University of Calgary, and his Master of Philosophy in Performance from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England.

Bridie Hooper is an award-winning Australian artist and maker who champions circus within multidisciplinary and contemporary performance contexts. 
Her work reveals multi-faceted perspectives on hope, connection, catharsis and mortality, navigating universal themes through deeply personal works that challenge form, context and performer/audience relationship. Intersecting ritual, endurance and the body's potential, her performances affirm and celebrate the intricate human psyche.

Bridie’s practice is centered in circus and physical performance, but places huge value on working collaboratively with multidisciplinary forms including sound art, visual art, theatre, and participatory performance to extend, challenge and reframe her work. These engagements are built on a mutual drive to find new ways to create transformative live art experiences for audiences across theatres, galleries and public space.

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Keaton is a multi-disciplinary acrobat and physical theater performer whose work has taken them around the globe. They have performed with acclaimed companies including C!RCA, Broadway’s Water For Elephants, and 7 Fingers. Raised in the circus, Keaton developed an early love for chaos, community, and the creative freedom that thrives in collaborative art-making. When not on stage, Keaton can often be found at the pottery wheel, happily covered in clay, mud seems to be their natural state.Keaton extends deep love and gratitude to their family, Jessica, Mike, Terry, Mary, Eliana, Wyndon, Kellin, Daniel, and Caroline. Without their unwavering support, Keaton jokes they’d still be stuck in the mud... literally.

John de Lancie is an actor, director, producer, writer, educator, sailor, voice artist, and comedian, best known for his iconic portrayal of the omnipotent Q across multiple Star Trek series, including The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Lower Decks, Picard, and Strange New Worlds. He also appeared as Q in Star Trek: The Game Show and Star Trek: Borg, co-wrote the novel I, Q with Peter David, and narrated several Star Trek audiobook adaptations, including Q-in-Law (with Majel Barrett Roddenberry) and Dark Mirror. Outside of Star Trek, de Lancie is widely recognized for voicing Discord, a character inspired by Q, in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2010–2019).

His television credits include recurring roles as Colonel Frank Simmons in Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007), Donald Margolis in Breaking Bad (2008–2013), and Donald Finley in the revival series episode “The Gun.” In 1996, he co-founded Alien Voices with Leonard Nimoy and Nat Segaloff, producing a series of science fiction audio dramas, including the popular Spock vs. Q recordings, as well as televised specials for the Sci-Fi Channel. He has also appeared in concert settings, co-hosting Star Trek: The Music with Robert Picardo in 2008 and 2010, celebrating music from all eras of the franchise.

Heather Clara Young, CPB, founded Young Associates in 1993 to provide bookkeeping, payroll, training, consulting and outsourced CFO services to not-for-profits and charities, specializing in the arts and culture sector. Heather teaches accounting and financial management in Humber College’s Arts Management program, and has taught for Humber’s Fundraising and Volunteer Management program and University of Toronto’s Arts Management program. Finance for the Arts in Canada (2005, 2024) is a unique self-study guide, reference source and textbook. The book has been praised for its straightforward approach to mastering nonprofit accounting and financial management skills.