Gloria Yip, Violin
Tristan Savella, Piano
Franck Violin Sonata
Prokofiev Five Melodies for Violin & Piano
All are welcome to join us in the Knox Sanctuary
Free admission / Freewill offering
We are grateful to partner with this group of emerging classical musicians as they present two commuter concerts, free for all, in our sanctuary.
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The next concert in the series is May 3 at 6pm
Musician Biographies
Gloria Yip
Gloria Yip is a Toronto-based violinist and educator who is well-known for her unique musicality and dynamic performances. She has performed in Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Spain and China; and has won several awards, including first prize at the Prix Ravel competition with string quartet, a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, and an Ihnatowycz Emerging Artist Scholarship from the Glenn Gould School. She obtained a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Toronto, where she studied as a full scholarship student with Dr. Timothy Ying and was awarded the Palmason Graduate Fellowship in Violin.
Recent highlights include performances on Hamilton’s Cable 14 TV network, with the Nexus Percussion Ensemble, as a principal player with Rob Kapilow’s “What Makes It Great”, and in the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Strauss’ Elektra. She has performed at the Conservatoire Américain in Fontainebleau, as well as the Domaine Forget, Brott, Bowdoin and Orford Music Festivals. Gloria has played in masterclasses for Ilya Kaler, Cho-Liang Lin, Phillippe Graffin, Gerard Poulet, Benjamin Bowman, and Jonathan Crow, among others.
Passionate about performing for wider audiences and in non-traditional spaces, Gloria has performed at the Royal Ontario Museum, Open Studio Contemporary Printmaking Centre, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Performing Arts Lodge and Union Station. She has also performed in many celebrated Toronto concert halls, such as Roy Thomson Hall, the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, the Four Seasons Centre, Meridian Arts Centre, Walter Hall and Koerner Hall.
Prior to completing her doctoral degree at UofT, Gloria was also a full scholarship student at the Glenn Gould School, obtaining an Artist Diploma under the tutelage of Paul Kantor and Barry Shiffman. She also holds a Master of Music degree from Indiana University, studying with Mauricio Fuks. She was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Toronto to Lydia Wong, and was also a past teaching assistant to Mauricio Fuks, Paul Widner and Stefano Pagliani. Before choosing to pursue music professionally, she obtained an Honours Bachelor of Science from UofT’s Life Sciences program, double majoring in psychology and music and graduating with honours. Her doctoral dissertation centres around themes of wellbeing and fulfilment through exploring the lived experiences of three graduate-level string majors.
Tristan Savella
Based in Toronto, Filipino-American pianist Tristan Savella has been an active soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Canada, and Europe. His career has taken him to performances at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in New York City, the Schloss Mirabell in Salzburg, Austria, and the Canadian Opera Company’s Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre in Toronto. In 2019, he performed Saint Saens’ Carnival of the Animals with the Toronto Concert Orchestra, under Vincent Cheng, at Flato Markham Theatre in Markham, Ontario and in 2013, his Piano Trio was chosen to represent the Eastman School of Music as part of “The Conservatory Project”, sponsored by the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
Tristan holds a Bachelor of Music in Applied Music from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, a Master of Arts (Klavier Solistenausbildung) with highest distinction from the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and an Artist Diploma from The Glenn Gould School in Toronto. He is also an alumnus of the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan. His principal teachers have included T.J. Lymenstull, Nelita True, George Kern, John O’Conor. He recently finished the Doctor of Musical Arts program at the University of Toronto, where he studied with the late Marietta Orlov as well as with Jamie Parker and Lydia Wong.
Furthermore, Tristan is the recipient of multiple prizes at various national and international competitions, including third place at the Concours Flame in Paris, first place at the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition in New York City, and a finalist prize at YoungArts Week – sponsored by the National YoungArts Foundation – in Miami. More recently, Tristan was awarded third prize at the 2018 Glenn Gould School Chamber Music Competition, alongside cellist, Kimberly Jeong. Apart from performing, Tristan works as a private piano and music theory teacher in Toronto, and as an accompanist at The Royal Conservatory School. Aside from music, Tristan enjoys traveling and is an avid tennis and ping pong fan.