Price – Andante moderato

Perkinson – Grass

Leanne Regehr - piano

Dvořák – Serenade for Strings

Soloist

Leanne Regehr is a versatile and sensitive pianist who is widely recognized for her intuitive ability to collaborate with other musicians across an extensive range of repertoire. She is a keyboardist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with organizations including the Chamber Orchestra of Edmonton, Pro Coro Canada, Luminous Voices, the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, Early Music Alberta, and the Academy Concert Series in Toronto. Leanne has been engaged as a répétiteur with Shreveport Opera, Mercury Opera, and Edmonton Opera and her dedication to the development of young singers has been shown through her work as a faculty member with Opera NUOVA, as a Coaching Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and most recently with the Ukrainian Art Song Project’s Summer Institute in Toronto. She is featured on a live recording of Victor Davies’ Mennonite Piano Concerto with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra as well as on Fire-flowers, a recently released recording with Juno-nominated Calgary based choir, Luminous Voices, in works by Brahms and Wadsworth.

Leanne completed her Doctor of Music in Piano Performance at Northwestern University and explored further studies at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Universitat Mozarteum in Salzburg. She has taught at the University of Alberta, and currently serves as piano instructor at The King’s University. For twenty three seasons, she has enjoyed playing the masterworks of the choral repertoire with the Richard Eaton Singers in Edmonton, where she freelances as a soloist, vocal coach, recital partner, and adjudicator.