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Prizewinner in the 2022 CMC Stepping Stone, Connor O\u2019Kane is a highly sought-after pianist, conductor, chamber musician, vocal coach, and teacher. Following his concerto debut with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in 2014 under the baton of Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, he has appeared as a recitalist in the United States, France, and across Canada. He is regularly invited to perform in such concert series as the Canadian Opera Company Noon Concert Series, Sundays at Chateau Windrush, Noon at St. Andrews Toronto, Ottawa Chamberfest, and The Banff Centre Summer Arts Festival. He has also made recent appearances as a guest artist in noon hour concerts at Brock University, Western University, and the University of Waterloo.\u00a0<\/p>

A passionate collaborative musician with a special affinity for opera, Connor has enjoyed success as a music director, conductor, vocal coach, harpsichordist, and r\u00e9p\u00e9titeur. In 2024 he joined the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music as music director of Ravel\u2019s L\u2019enfant et les sortil\u00e8ges<\/em> and Debussy\u2019s Progidal Son<\/em>, and assistant conductor of Die Zauberfl\u00f6te<\/em>. Other recent conducting credits include Carmen<\/em> (Toronto City Opera), Albert Herring<\/em> (Western University), and St. Matthew Passion<\/em> (The Banff Centre). He previously spent five years as assistant conductor of opera at Western University, in addition to r\u00e9p\u00e9titeur\/continuo work at the National Arts Centre, Banff Centre, the University of Ottawa, and Wilfrid Laurier University. Connor has had the privilege of working with some of the leading opera directors in Canada, as well as many outstanding conductors including Alexander Shelley, Tyrone Paterson, and Alain Trudel. He has also worked as an assistant to Simone Luti, Jennifer Tung, Sandra Horst, and Alexander Weimann.<\/p>

Connor\u2019s chamber music collaborations are richly varied. In 2026 he will perform alongside mezzo Michal Aloni in a recital program of Hebrew music by Jewish composers titled \u201cPictures from the Private Collection of God,\u201d presented as part of the Canadian Opera Company\u2019s Vocal Series. In the 2024-25 season he joined forces with pianist Ryan Baxter to present a series of recitals featuring four-hands piano sonatas by Australian composers Carl Vine and Stuart Greenbaum, which represented the Canadian premiere of both works. A champion of Canadian and contemporary music, he is currently pursuing a comprehensive Canadian art-song recording project with renowned soprano Natalie Image. Together they completed a residency at the Canadian Music Centre in Vancouver in 2024, generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.<\/p>

Connor was recently appointed as a piano instructor at Western University, having completed a Doctor of Musical Arts at the same institution in 2023. For his research on the piano transcriptions of Sergei Prokofiev, he was awarded the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, having previously held a Canada Graduate Scholarship for his research on Ferruccio Busoni. Connor studied piano with St\u00e9phan Sylvestre, David Jalbert, Heather Taves, and Joan Walker, with additional training at the Conservatoire de Lyon in the studio of Manuel Schweizer. He also maintains a small but active private studio of dedicated piano students in Kitchener-Waterloo, and is frequently invited to serve as an adjudicator at provincial and local music festivals, such as the Ontario Music Festivals Association, Kitchener-Waterloo Kiwanis Music Festival, Pickering Rotary Music Festival, and the Guelph Kiwanis Music Festival.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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