Artist in Residence, 2025-26

January 8, 2025 by Sonja Johnston

We are delighted to announce that the 2025-26 Artist in Residence at the Jackman Humanities Institute will be Eve Egoyan, in partnership with the Faculty of Music. She will participate in the Circle of Fellows during our annual theme, Dystopia and Trust.

Eve Egoyan is an internationally active Canadian pianist and composer of Armenian heritage. She was trained in the classical piano repertoire in Canada, England, and Germany, and completed an MMus degree at the University of Toronto in 1992. She has released over a dozen solo CDs concentrating on contemporary repertoire by Canadian and international composers, including many works commissioned for her. During the past 15 years, Egoyan has explored the use of cutting-edge technology to expand the expressive possibilities of the acoustic piano and incorporate real-time audio and visual effects into live performance. More recently, she has been researching and performing music by Armenian composers.

Fellowship Project: Echoes of Dystopia

The highlight of Egoyan’s residency will be “Echoes of Dystopia,” a creative project that offers musical and visual reflections on the Armenian Genocide. From 1915 to 1923, more than 1.5 million Armenians were killed, and half a million survivors were exiled by the Ottoman Empire. The widespread violence, forced deportations, starvation, and mass killings inflicted upon the Armenian population became a template for subsequent genocides.

The JHI Artist in Residence is a partnership between the Jackman Humanities Institute and a different unit each year. This collaboration will see Eve Egoyan appear as a presenter in the Faculty of Music’s Graduate Colloquium Series, and give a recital in the Thursdays at Noon Series. There will also be guest lecture opportunities in both undergraduate and graduate courses at the Faculty of Music. The Institute for Music in Canada will undertake to arrange a workshop by Egoyan for composition and performance students on the commissioning process (sources of funding, composer-performer interaction, performance and recording opportunities, etc). Eve Egoyan will also participate in weekly fellows' research meetings and hold an office at the Jackman Humanities Institute.

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