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Allie Su is an internationally recognized collaborative pianist and chamber musician whose performances and teaching engagements have taken her across the United States, Asia, and Europe. Acclaimed for her specialization in wind and brass repertoire, she has collaborated with leading artists including Christian Lindberg, Nitzan Haroz, Carol Jantsch, Charles Neidich, Carol Wincenc, Benjamin Kamins, and Alexa Still. Her festival appearances include the Perlman Music Program, Interlochen Center for the Arts, American Viola Society Festival, Cooper International Violin Competition, and the Meadowmount School of Music. In 2025, Su presented a lecture on the topic of “The Collaborative Piano Landscape in China” at the CollabFest, the leading festival dedicated to advancing the art of collaborative piano.

As an active chamber musician and educator, Su has performed and presented masterclasses at Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Texas at Austin, University of Denver, University of Colorado Boulder, Cleveland State University, Taipei University, Tunghai University, Sun Yat-sen University, Seoul National University, and Yonsei University. She is also a versatile vocal collaborator, having served as a coach and pianist for the Land of Enchantment Opera, Butler Opera Center, Franco-American Vocal Academy, ISING Festival in Suzhou, and Lingua e Canto in Italy.

Su is currently on the faculty of The Tianjin Juilliard School, where she teaches in the Graduate Studies program, coaches chamber ensembles, and coordinates the staff pianist area. She earned her DMA in Collaborative Piano from the University of Texas at Austin and her MM in Piano Performance from Arizona State University.

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In recognition of International Mountain Day, join us for a special screening of award winners and audience favourites from the 2025 Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival. 

International Mountain Day, designated by the United Nations in 2003, raises global awareness of the vital role mountains play in sustaining life on Earth. It highlights both the opportunities and challenges of mountain development and fosters alliances that promote positive change for mountain communities and environments worldwide.

Celebrate the spirit of mountain culture and adventure through a curated selection of films that inspire, challenge, and connect us to the landscapes and communities that shape life in the mountains.
 

Featuring three films:  
Echo of Turns 
(Japan, 2025, 14 min) - G
With unknowns and anxiety in his heart Shikaichi Ueki moved from Japan to Golden, BC. Five years later, he's feeling the positive energy that flows from person to person. At the heart of it all is, without a doubt, skiing. 

Le Moulin des Artistes - A Home for Free Spirits
2025 Best Film: Snowsports
(France, 2025, 25 min) - PG
Director: Pierre Cadot
Some people make a living from their craft. Others can’t live without it. In a 16th century mill in the Chamonix valley, Peter and Anati run Le Moulin des Artistes: a ski workshop, art space, and gathering place for like-minded free spirits. Le Moulin des Artistes shows us how creative expression can bring purpose, build lasting community, and even help overcome disaster.

Run Again
(France, 2025 65 min) - PG (Coarse language)
2025 Special Jury Mention
Director: Alexis Berg
Dave Pen is the singer of Archive, an English rock band that has been selling out Europe's biggest venues for 30 years. At 45 years old he's looking for a new lease of life and signs up for a 460-kilomentre race in winter. 

From the film Le Moulin des Artistes
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Celebrate International Mountain Day with award-winning films from the 2025 Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival.
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Sharon Lockhart, still from WINDWARD, 2025. Co-commissioned and co-produced by Shorefast/Fogo Island Arts, The Vega Foundation, and the National Gallery of Canada, with the support of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin. © Sharon Lockhart, 2025

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Featuring the film installation, WINDWARD, and a new series of photographs, titled Fogo Island Portrait Studio, artist Sharon Lockhart explores life on Fogo Island and its entwinement with geography and landscape in SHARON LOCKHART, on view from October 22, 2025 until January 7, 2026.

BANFF, AB, OCTOBER 22, 2025 – Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity invites the Canadian eastern shores onto its Rocky Mountain campus with SHARON LOCKHART, now open at Banff Centre’s Walter Phillips Gallery. Running from October 22, 2025 to January 7, 2026 the exhibition includes a new film installation and a series of photographs developed over four summers on Newfoundland and Labrador’s Fogo Island.

Both the film, WINDWARD, and the series of photographs, Fogo Island Portrait Studio, build upon core themes that have defined Lockhart’s career: an exploration of place and how people engage with landscapes, a durational approach to attention and focus through extended static takes, and a deep, long-term commitment to those who appear before her lens.

Fogo Island, the largest offshore island of Newfoundland and Labrador, is known for its rich fishing heritage and oceanside scenery. During her 2022 residency on the island, Lockhart encountered Colin Low’s film The Children of Fogo Island, one of twenty-seven films made between 1966 and 1968 that were a part of the participatory filmmaking project, The Fogo Process. With Low’s work as a symbol of Fogo’s past, Lockhart created WINDWARD, a filmic exploration of the site’s present.

In WINDWARD, Lockhart carefully observes the island’s geography, capturing its youth in structured play amid fields of tall grass, volcanic rocks, and crashing waves. Filmed on the island’s northern face—its windward end—the work takes cues from an unseen force: persistent gusts that descend uninterrupted from the Arctic, arriving on land as a presence inseparable from daily life.

Fogo Island Portrait Studio presents Lockhart’s subjects—Fogo Island’s children—in daylit portraits, their proximity countering their depiction in WINDWARD> as figures subsumed by the landscape. Posed with striking directness, each child is seen asserting an agency within their material and environmental conditions, positioning them as active participants in their own futures.

WINDWARD is co-commissioned and co-produced by Shorefast/Fogo Island Arts, The Vega Foundation, and the National Gallery of Canada, with the support of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

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Sharon Lockhart, still from WINDWARD, 2025. Co-commissioned and co-produced by Shorefast/Fogo Island Arts, The Vega Foundation, and the National Gallery of Canada, with the support of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin. © Sharon Lockhart, 2025


 

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We are honoured to present Sharon Lockhart’s works on the community, culture and landscape of Fogo Island in Banff, and to support the artist’s important new film, WINDWARD alongside its co-commissioners.

Both WINDWARD and the series of photographs, Fogo Island Portrait Studio, are explorations of engagement with people and place that I feel will resonate deeply with artists and audiences here who are attuned to a very different, but no less striking landscape, as well as the challenges of making work within such a visually arresting context. The depiction of the experiences of children in the film and the youth’s deep engagement with their environment, presents a document of childhood that I feel will also connect with viewers here who value relationship to land and landscape.

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SHARON LOCKHART will be celebrated with a free public event at Walter Phillips Gallery with the artist present on Wednesday, December 3 from 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. A free, public conversation with Sharon Lockhart and Kitty Scott, Strategic Director, Shorefast/Fogo Island Arts, will take place on Thursday, December 4, 2025. Both events are presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Canada.

SHARON LOCKHART

  • Dates: October 22, 2025 to January 7, 2026
  • Venue: Walter Phillips Gallery at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
  • Address: 107 Tunnel Mountain Dr., Banff, Alberta
  • Price: Free
  • Hours: Wednesdays through Sundays, 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
  • Public Celebration: Wednesday, December 3, 2025
  • Conversation with Sharon Lockhart and Kitty Scott: Thursday, December 4, 2025
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The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Government of Canada and Government of Alberta.

To find out more about Walter Phillips Gallery exhibitions and events, please visit banffcentre.ca/walter-phillips-gallery.

Interviews are available with:

Jacqueline Bell - Director, Walter Phillips Gallery and Collections at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Josephine Ridge - Executive Director, Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Interviews with the artist may be available upon request.

See Banff Centre’s Media Room here.

For photos, information or interview requests, please contact:

Carly Maga
Director, Communications
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
tel: +1.403.763.6210
cell: +1.403.431.3423
carly_maga@banffcentre.ca

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About Sharon Lockhart

Sharon Lockhart (b. 1964) creates installations, photography, film, painting and sculpture centered on the compelling and complex interactions between the various media and forms she employs, histories she encounters, and the communities and people with whom she collaborates.

In 2017, Lockhart represented Poland at the 57th Venice Biennale with her multidisciplinary project, Little Review. Solo exhibitions include: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Augarten, Vienna; The Jewish Museum, New York; Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fonzadione Fotografia Modena, Italy; Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal; and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland. Lockhart’s films have been presented in the New York Film Festival, Vienna International Film Festival, FID Marseille, Berlin Film Festival, and Sundance Film Festival. Lockhart has been awarded the Herb Alpert Award, Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, D.A.A.D. Artist in Residence Fellowship, Berlin, Mike Kelly Foundation Artist Project Grant, and a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University, among others. Lockhart lives and works in Los Angeles. lockhartstudio.com

About Walter Phillips Gallery

Walter Phillips Gallery is exclusively committed to the production, presentation, collection and analysis of contemporary art and curatorial practice. For contemporary artists, particularly those engaged in alternative forms of practice, Walter Phillips Gallery remains an essential and principal site where art is presented to an audience for critical reception. banffcentre.ca/walter-phillips-gallery

About Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Founded in 1933, Banff Centre is a post-secondary institution built upon an extraordinary legacy of excellence in artistic and leadership development. What started as a single course in drama has grown to become a global organization leading in arts, culture, and creative decision-making across dozens of disciplines, from the fine arts to Indigenous Wise Practices. From our home in the stunning Canadian Rocky Mountains, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity aims to move everyone who attends our campus - artists, leaders, thinkers, and audiences - to unleash their creative potential and realize their unique contribution to build an innovative, inspiring future through education, performances, convenings, and public outreach. banffcentre.ca

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Please join us for a conversation presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Canada with artist Sharon Lockhart and Kitty Scott, Strategic Director, Shorefast/Fogo Island Arts, on the current exhibition at Walter Phillips Gallery, SHARON LOCKHART.

Over the course of four summers spent on Newfoundland’s Fogo Island, at Canada’s easternmost reaches, Sharon Lockhart developed a new film and a series of photographs, both building upon core themes that have defined her career: an exploration of place and how people engage with landscapes, a durational approach to attention and focus through extended static takes, and a deep, long-term commitment to those who appear before her lens. This exhibition features her film installation, WINDWARD, in which the island’s striking geological formations, unique climate, and austere beauty are brought to life through portrayals of youth. The presentation also debuts her photographs, collectively entitled Fogo Island Portrait Studio, picturing the island’s young residents.

WINDWARD is co-commissioned and co-produced by Shorefast/Fogo Island Arts, The Vega Foundation, and the National Gallery of Canada, with the support of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin. © Sharon Lockhart, 2025

The National Gallery of Canada’s National Engagement initiative is generously supported by Michael Nesbitt, with additional funding from the National Gallery of Canada Foundation.

The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Government of Canada and Government of Alberta.

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Join Sharon Lockhart and Kitty Scott in conversation on the current exhibition at Walter Phillips Gallery, 'SHARON LOCKHART.'
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Sharon Lockhart

Sharon Lockhart (b. 1964, Norwood, Massachusetts, US) creates installations, photography, film, painting and sculpture centered on the compelling and complex interactions between the various media and forms she employs, histories she encounters, and the communities and people with whom she collaborates.

In 2017, Lockhart represented Poland at the 57th Venice Biennale with her multidisciplinary project, Little Review. Solo exhibitions include: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Augarten, Vienna; The Jewish Museum, New York; Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fonzadione Fotografia Modena, Italy; Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal; and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland. Lockhart’s films have been presented in the New York Film Festival, Vienna International Film Festival, FID Marseille, Berlin Film Festival, and Sundance Film Festival. Lockhart has been awarded the Herb Alpert Award, Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, D.A.A.D. Artist in Residence Fellowship, Berlin, Mike Kelly Foundation Artist Project Grant, and a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University, among others. Lockhart lives and works in Los Angeles.

Kitty Scott

Kitty Scott is a curator, writer and senior arts administrator. She is currently Strategic Director at Shorefast and Fogo Island Arts. Former Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, she has also served as the Carol and Morton Rapp Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Director of Visual Arts at The Banff Centre, Chief Curator at Serpentine Galleries, and curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada.

She has curated exhibitions of artists such as Francis Alÿs, Janet Cardiff, Paul Chan, Peter Doig, Geoffrey Farmer, Theaster Gates, Brian Jungen, Ragnar Kjartansson, Ken Lum, Gordon Matta-Clark, Scott McFarland, Silke Otto-Knapp, Ron Terada, and Jin-me Yoon. She co-curated the Liverpool Biennial (with Sally Tallant) (2018), presented Geoffrey Farmer’s project at the Canada Pavilion for the Venice Biennale (2017) and was an agent for dOCUMENTA (13) (2012), Kassel, Germany.

She has written extensively on contemporary art for catalogues and journals including Parachute, Parkett, and Canadian Art. Scott has contributed to numerous books on curatorial studies and written texts for monographic publications on the work of Matthew Barney, Peter Doig, Brian Jungen, Adam Pendleton, and Daniel Richter; and for the publication Creamier: Contemporary Art in Culture (Phaidon, London, New York, 2010). As an independent curator, she has worked on numerous exhibitions including Gordon Matta-Clark: Line of Flight (2020), Bankside Browser (2000) for Tate Modern, London, and Universal Pictures (1999) at the Melbourne International Biennial.

Scott organized the curatorial symposium “Are Curators Unprofessional?” (2010) at The Banff Centre and edited the publication Raising Frankenstein: Curatorial Education and Its Discontents (Koenig Books, Cologne, 2010). She was the Canadian coordinator for the Seventh International Istanbul Biennial (2001) and also worked on the inaugural SITE Santa Fe Biennial (1995). Scott has taught at numerous institutions including the Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco.

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Please join us for the public celebration for the exhibition, SHARON LOCKHART at Walter Phillips Gallery, presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Canada through their National Engagement initiative.

Over the course of four summers spent on Newfoundland’s Fogo Island, at Canada’s easternmost reaches, Sharon Lockhart developed a new film and a series of photographs, both building upon core themes that have defined her career: an exploration of place and how people engage with landscapes, a durational approach to attention and focus through extended static takes, and a deep, long-term commitment to those who appear before her lens. This exhibition features her film installation, WINDWARD, in which the island’s striking geological formations, unique climate, and austere beauty are brought to life through portrayals of youth. The presentation also debuts her photographs, collectively entitled Fogo Island Portrait Studio, picturing the island’s young residents.

Running concurrently to this event is the Fall Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) Open Studios, an exciting opportunity for the artists to share their work, and for the public to ask them about their processes. Artists, art appreciators, and curious first-time viewers alike are encouraged to attend.

WINDWARD is co-commissioned and co-produced by Shorefast/Fogo Island Arts, The Vega Foundation, and the National Gallery of Canada, with the support of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin. © Sharon Lockhart, 2025.

The National Gallery of Canada’s National Engagement initiative is generously supported by Michael Nesbitt, with additional funding from the National Gallery of Canada Foundation.

The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Government of Canada and Government of Alberta.

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Experience Walter Phillips Gallery's current exhibition, 'SHARON LOCKHART,' presented alongside Fall Banff Artist in Residence Open Studios.
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Sharon Lockhart

Sharon Lockhart (b. 1964, Norwood, Massachusetts, US) creates installations, photography, film, painting and sculpture centered on the compelling and complex interactions between the various media and forms she employs, histories she encounters, and the communities and people with whom she collaborates.

In 2017, Lockhart represented Poland at the 57th Venice Biennale with her multidisciplinary project, Little Review. Solo exhibitions include: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Augarten, Vienna; The Jewish Museum, New York; Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fonzadione Fotografia Modena, Italy; Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal; and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland. Lockhart’s films have been presented in the New York Film Festival, Vienna International Film Festival, FID Marseille, Berlin Film Festival, and Sundance Film Festival. Lockhart has been awarded the Herb Alpert Award, Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, D.A.A.D. Artist in Residence Fellowship, Berlin, Mike Kelly Foundation Artist Project Grant, and a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University, among others. Lockhart lives and works in Los Angeles.
 

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Artistic director, scenographer, and costume designer with over 25 years of international experience. She has designed more than a hundred productions across theatre, circus, opera, and visual arts. A multidisciplinary artist, she has collaborated with Michel Lemieux & Victor Pilon (4D Art), The 7 Fingers (Shana Carroll, Gypsy Snider), magician Luc Langevin, Jean Grand-Maître (Alberta Ballet) 2014-2021, and Cirque du Soleil since 2003 on major productions: 

Delirium Arena (2005)_Iris Los Angeles (2010)_Pan American Games Toronto (2015)_Paramour – New York (2016)_Volta – Big Top (2017)_Crystal – Arena (2018)_Vitori – Malta (2019)_Alegria – Big Top, Montreal (2019)

Currently in creation: LUDO (11th collaboration with Cirque du Soleil)

Since 2020, her company has been based in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, where she develops unique and intimate performance evenings in the small town of Waterloo. There, she owns her creative studios and runs a unique cultural bar in the region: SISSI BUVETTE.
 

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Experience a work-in-progress showing and open rehearsal of Tanya Tagaq’s Split Tooth: Saputjiji. This presentation offers audiences a rare look into the creative process behind a new performance in development. A Q&A with the creative team will follow the presentation.

Split Tooth: Saputjiji is a new performance drawing on the elemental, poetic, and personal currents that course through Tanya Tagaq’s acclaimed book Split Tooth. At its center is Tagaq herself, an artist whose vocal power collapses boundaries. Her performance summons genetic memory and future possibilities, weaving them into an ecstatic sonic field.

Directed by Kaneza Schaal, known for her boundary-breaking work in opera and theatre, Saputjiji merges Tagaq’s vocal landscapes into a staged environment that blurs music and memory, landscape and breath, body and cosmos. Split Tooth: Saputjiji is not an adaptation so much as an expansion — an expression of thought rendered through sound and image.

Channelling the Split Tooth universe into a new theatrical language, the performance carries the book’s lyrical power into new dimensions, revealing the deep continuities between language and breath, violence and transcendence, music and body. The work initiates a conversation with the future through mythic realism.

Be among the first to experience this bold new work-in-progress before its full premiere.

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“One of the avant-garde’s most dynamic performers.” — Rolling Stone

“This fiercely charismatic Inuk singer’s throaty voice demands full attention, whether she’s whispering in her softest register or howling at the sky.” — NY Times

“The Inuk experimental musician joins landscape, culture and resistance.” — Pitchfork

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A work-in-progress showing and open rehearsal of Tanya Tagaq’s Split Tooth: Saputjiji, directed by Kaneza Schaal.
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New York based bon vivant and all-around creative provocateur Machine Dazzle has been dazzling stages via costumes, sets, and performance since his arrival in the City in 1994. He designs intricate, unconventional wearable art pieces and bespoke installations. As a stage designer, Machine has collaborated with Mx. Justin Vivian Bond, Taylor Mac, Basil Twist, Godfrey Reggio, The Dazzle Dancers, the Curran Theatre, Spiegelworld (among others); and has created bespoke looks for fashion icons including Diane von Furstenberg and Cara Delevingne for the 2019 Met Gala. Recent collaborations include Bassline Fabulous with the Catalyst Quartet (Metropolitan Museum of Art); Treasure, a rock-and-roll cabaret of original songs + accompanying fashion show; and the Rameau comedic opéra-ballet, Io (Opera Lafayette). Dazzle was a co-recipient the 2017 Bessie Award for Outstanding Visual Design, the winner of a 2017 Henry Hewes Design Award, a 2022 United States Artists Fellow, and a 2024 EMMY Award Winner for “Outstanding Costumes for Variety, Non-fiction, or Reality Programming” for his work in the HBO concert documentary Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History of Popular Music.  Machine Dazzle has had solo exhibitions at NYC’s Museum of Arts and Design (Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle), Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre (Machine Dazzle: Art and Intention), and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ouroboros). In 2024/2025, he opened gallery exhibitions “Soft Serve” at Wasserman Projects (Detroit, MI), “Obsession and Evidence” at Gallery AP Space (New York, NY), and “Surfacing” at The Fitz Gallery of the Red Lion Inn (Stockbridge, MA). 

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Step into the creative world of Banff Musicians in Residence. This relaxed evening invites you to wander through the studios and huts of our resident musicians, where each space becomes its own intimate stage.

Experience a series of spontaneous mini-concerts — short sets curated by the artists themselves on the day of the event — and enjoy the chance to listen, linger, and connect with music in its purest, most immediate form.

These Open Studios are part of the Banff Musicians in Residence program, which gives musicians and ensembles the time and space to develop new work, refine their craft, and collaborate in Banff Centre’s inspiring mountain setting.

January 29 Program:

Please meet in the Rolston Recital Hall lobby at the start of the evening.

Performance times are approximate and may shift slightly depending on the length of each set.

Pre-Show: Miko Rytowski– Studio 109
7:00 pm: Theresa Thordarson – Studio 112
7:25 pm: Magpie Duo (Matthew Schultheis and Lauren Conroy) – Studio 113
7:50 pm: Charlotte Tang – Studio 143
8:15 pm: Amy Hillis – Studio 144
8:40 pm: Laura Roy – Hut 2
9:05 pm: SAMWOY – Hut 26
9:30 pm: PTP Audio Engineers – Listening Room (Studio 115)

Agar Haineault also known as K.$TONE, BMiR Open Studio 2025, photo by Rita Taylor.
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Discover new sounds as Banff resident musicians share impromptu performances and works-in-progress in intimate studio settings.
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Step into the creative world of Banff Musicians in Residence. This relaxed evening invites you to wander through the studios and huts of our resident musicians, where each space becomes its own intimate stage.

Experience a series of spontaneous mini-concerts — short sets curated by the artists themselves on the day of the event — and enjoy the chance to listen, linger, and connect with music in its purest, most immediate form. 

These Open Studios are part of the Banff Musicians in Residence program, which gives musicians and ensembles the time and space to develop new work, refine their craft, and collaborate in Banff Centre’s inspiring mountain setting.
 

January 22 Program

Please meet in the Rolston Recital Hall lobby at the start of the evening.

Performance times are approximate and may shift slightly depending on the length of each set.

7:00 PM – Miko Rytowski | Studio 109
7:25 PM – Johnny Tomasiello | Studio 103
7:50 PM – Justin Wright | Bentley Studio
8:15 PM – Alice Belém | Studio 145
8:40 PM – Rainbow Chan | Studio 141
9:05 PM – Gage Salnikowski | Hut 25
9:30 PM – Hannah Epperson | Hut 27

Maddalena Ohrbach from À Mer (voice), Elissa Nakhleh from À Mer (piano), and Aditya Bhat (percussion)BMiR 2025 Open Studio
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