Bader & Overton Canadian Piano Competition House Program 2023

The Jurors
Cécile Desrosiers
Pianist and harpsichordist Cécile Desrosiers
holds performance degrees from the University
of Western Ontario, McGill University and the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, U.K.
She appeared as guest soloist with symphony
orchestras across Canada and as chamber musician and soloist in
prestigious Canadian festivals. Her work has been featured on numerous
radio broadcasts (CBC, Radio-Canada, WQXR-New York). Sought
after as an adjudicator, she has served as jury member for music peer
assessment committees, piano competitions, piano examinations and
music festivals in Canada and abroad.
Deeply involved in the research and performance of keyboard music by
women composers, she gives regular webinars and presentations on
the subject, and played a major role in the inclusion of more than 250
works by women and BIPOC composers to the revised Conservatory
Canada piano syllabus.
She currently teaches at Carleton University.
Eve Egoyan
Eve Egoyan is an internationally celebrated artist
whose medium is the piano. She continually reinvents
her relationship with her instrument
through the creation and commissioning of new
works which she has performed around the
world. Trained as a classical pianist, Eve has followed her curiosity into
the world of contemporary music since moving to Toronto. She has
recorded thirteen solo CDs which have received accolades including
one of “Ten Top” classical discs, New Yorker magazine (2009). Presently,
Eve balances her interpretative practice alongside creating new works
for her newly imagined, enhanced piano, PIANO NEXT. These pieces
include collaborations with other musicians and visual artists as well as
works for herself and within an ensemble. www.eveegoyan.com
16 | Bader & Overton Canadian Piano Competition