April 17th - Music for Two Celli - India Gailey & Leah Plave
In the spirit of anarchy and exploration, award-winning artists India Gailey and Leah Plave present brand new music for two cellos. The pair are deeply honoured to premiere the works of seven Canadian composers who have agreed to this surprising but refreshing prompt. In this concert, catch a sneak peak of the music before the album comes out.
Date: Friday April 17th
Doors 7:00 | Show: 7:30PM
Location: Gallery 78 - 796 Queen St, Fredericton
Tickets: $15 | Series Passes: $40
Advance tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/piumusicandsound/2060381
Series Passes: https://buytickets.at/piumusicandsound/store
photo credit: Jamie Kronick
India Gailey
India Gailey is a cellist, composer, vocalist, and improviser who appears most often in the realms of classical and experimental music. Named by CBC as one of “30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30,” India moves fluidly as a soloist, chamber musician, and interdisciplinary collaborator, performing across the western hemisphere. Her music imaginatively combines themes from the natural world with ethereal textures and poetic storytelling. She has written music for concert, film, dance, and theatre, often exploring environmentalism and magical realism in her work. In 2022 she composed music for Symphony Nova Scotia to illustrate Mi’kmaw poet Rebecca Thomas’s children’s book I’m Finding My Talk, followed by her own cello concerto Butterfly Lightning Shakes the Earth (Redshift Records), the recording of which received an East Coast Music for Composition of the year and a 2025 Juno nomination for Classical Album of the Year. India is the recipient of numerous honours, including awards from Arts Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Talent Trust, the Canada Council for the Arts, Upstream Music, and Acadia & McGill Universities.
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Photo credit: Nika Prokopenka
Leah Plave
Raised on a diet of Bach and Brahms, now heavily tattooed, genre-bent artist Leah Plave embraces not only classical but contemporary, electronic, non-western, and experimental music. She frequently collaborates with living composers and is drawn towards interdisciplinary, cross-cultural projects. A four-time immigrant by the age of 24, Leah has lived and toured extensively across North America, China, and Europe.
Leah is based in the Netherlands, where her love for both the traditional and non-traditional canon have seen her performing in spaces ranging from posh concert halls to deconstructed airplanes and art galleries. Her extensive experience as a soloist and chamber musician has included recent performances with ensembles such as B.O.X Ensemble, Pi Quartet, Spaceship Ensemble, London Film Orchestra, Lincoln Center Stage, and the Orchestra of the 18th Century. She makes frequent appearances in European new music festivals such as Rewire, November Music, Haarlem Vinyl Festival, Vers Fuur, and Angelica Festival Internazionale di Musica.
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More Upcoming Dates:
June 27 - Charles Harding: Hum (Charlotte Street Arts Centre)