Echo Lau in concert, June 5

Echo Lau is back home for a few weeks, having returned from the University of Ottawa where she has just completed her Master of Music in Piano Performance. She will play a piano recital at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall on the UPEI campus on Sunday, June 5 at 4:30 pm. The program includes the Mozart Sonata in D Major, K.311, the first movement of the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 3 (accompanied by Frances Gray), and the Ravel “Gaspard de la nuit.” Admission is by donation.

Echo Lau was a student of Dr. Frances Gray at the University of Prince Edward Island where she graduated with the Bachelor of Music degree in 2013. During her high school years, she was a student of Frances McBurnie. At the University of Ottawa, she studied piano with Andrew Tunis and accompanied the Opera Company and the Calixa-Lavallée Choir. She has represented PEI at the CFMTA National Piano Competition and the National Kiwanis Music Festival, and performed a concerto with the PEI Symphony Orchestra as the winner of the Suzanne Brenton Award. She accompanies other musicians quite often, and has played for the UPEI choirs and the Kings Playhouse. In addition to playing the piano, she has also been a violinist with the PEI Symphony, the Singing Strings, and the Strathgartney Chamber Orchestra. Echo was born in Hong Kong and she immigrated to Canada in 2004.

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