CANADIAN PIANIST
February 22, 2021 Dear Friends, It is with great pleasure and excitement that I announce the release of my debut solo album, Lineage: Tracing Influence, on February 22, 2021, on New Classics Records. It is available now both as a digital and physical album on Bandcamp. Lineage: Tracing Influence features premiere recordings of two works: […]
I am delighted that my duo, Piano Pinnacle, has been invited by Berkeley Symphony to perform at their “Joseph Young & Friends: Made in Berkeley” digital concert. This event is celebrating the works of Berkeley-based composers Gabriela Lena Frank, Olly Wilson, Myra Melford, and Samuel Adams, and we have the honour of performing Gabriela Lena […]
Today, I’m sharing moments from my recent set of solo recitals in the United Kingdom and Canada. I had the pleasure of taking my programme, entitled Lineage, on tour to Winnipeg, Toronto, Manchester, and Belfast (as well as a private house concert in New York City into the mix), which was supported in part thanks […]
On Sunday, August 19 2018, I am thrilled to be playing a solo recital in Belfast, Northern Ireland, presented by Music at McQuiston. Music at McQuiston is a wonderful concert series held at McQuiston Church Belfast. Belfast is the city in which my mother was born and raised, so I am especially excited to be […]
On Friday, August 17 2018, I will be making my United Kingdom debut presenting a solo recital in Manchester, England, at the Engine House at International Anthony Burgess Foundation. The Bösendorfer grand piano housed at the Engine House belonged to the late English poet and composer, Anthony Burgess. Date: Friday, August 17, 2018 Time: 8:00 […]
On May 25, 2018 I will be presenting a solo piano recital in Toronto ON, as part of my multiple city recital tour, Lineage. I’m thrilled to be returning Toronto, a city in which I lived during my grad school years, and I can hardly wait to make friends with the lovely Bösendorfer at The Ernest Balmer Studio! […]
I am thrilled to announce the first recital of my upcoming Canada/UK tour which will take place in Winnipeg, MB on May 13th 2018. See below for the press release. Tickets may be purchased online here: https://deborahgrimmettwinnipeg.brownpapertickets.com/ Lineage: A Piano Recital New York City based Canadian-British pianist, Deborah Grimmett, is performing multiple solo piano recitals across […]
I have uploaded several new videos to Youtube recently, including some live solo performances, as well as performances with Iman Habibi of my piano duo ensemble Piano Pinnacle in a collaboration with the Ann Arbor Camerata orchestra. Please have a listen! And don’t forget to subscribe to my Youtube Channel to be updated on new […]
This coming March, I am very excited to be making my debut with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, along with my partner, Iman Habibi (Piano Pinnacle). We will be performing as soloists in Camille Saint-Saëns’ ever-popular Carnival of the Animals, under the baton of the esteemed Maestro Bramwell Tovey. Saint-Saëns wrote Carnival of the Animals in 1886, but […]
Thursday March 17, 2016, 7:30pm The Firehouse Space Brooklyn, New York I am thrilled to be premiering 15 wonderful miniature works for two pianos with my ensemble, Piano Pinnacle, in New York City later this month. The pieces, which are dedicated to us, were selected from a pool of over 80 submissions, all composed on the theme: Canada. The compositions […]