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2025

Curiosity, Genius, and The Search For Petula Clark

January 22, 2026 - January 23, 2026
7:30pm
Location: Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, ON

Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno, conductor, Toronto, January 22+23, 2026, Toronto.
***Continues on through the European tour***

The Confectioner’s Handbook

January 19, 2026 - January 23, 2026
Location: Winnipeg, MB

CC Duo + Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Raskin, conductor, Winnipeg New Music Festival
Dates TBC

Huron Carol Interlude

November 16, 2025
4:00pm
Location: Bellows Falls Opera House, Bellows Falls, VT

Made in Vermont with The Moth Radio Hour – Bellows Falls
Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Crust, conductor

The Book of Elegant Feelings

October 28, 2025 - November 1, 2025
Location: Winnipeg

International Cello Festival of Canada; Cameron Crozman

Machines, Mannequins, and Monsters

October 5, 2025
3:30pm
Location: The Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, Ottawa, ON

Shh!!! Ensemble & Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, Melanie Leonard, conductor

Dark Energy

September 26, 2025 - September 29, 2025
Location: Vancouver

Vetta Chamber Music Society’s founding String Quartet: David Harding, viola; Joan Blackman, violin; Maria Larionoff, violin; Zoltan Rozsnyai, cello
Check website for locations and times

Into the Darkness They Go, The Wise and the Lovely

September 15, 2025
Location: Osaka, Japan

Mikeneko Brass Band, Katrina Marzella, conductor

Blues and the Principals of Excitation

August 20, 2025
Location: Rexxam Hall [Kagawa Prefectural Hall] Small Hall, Kagawa, Japan

World premiere of arrangement for string nonet
Affinis Music Festival

ad lucem

August 13, 2025
8 pm
Location: La Maison Tresler, Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC

Elvira Misbakhova, violist
Meagan Milatz, pianist

Fierce Urgency of the Now (WORLD PREMIERE)

August 2, 2025
7:30pm
Location: Edward Johnson Building, Toronto, ON

Toronto Summer Music Festival; Cassia Drake and Jonathan Mac

NMN II: Kelly-Marie Murphy at 60

July 20, 2025
2:30 pm
Location: Huguette Labelle, Tabaret Hall, uOttawa, Ottawa, ON

Ottawa Chamberfest highlights the vast and varied work of Kelly-Marie Murphy.
Jeff Dyrda, violin; Jessy Kim, violin; Desiree Abbey, cello; Katherine Dowling, piano; Zac Pulak, percussion; Brenna Hardy-Kavanagh, viola; Ruby Jin, piano

Chamber Chat: New Music Now Composers

July 19, 2025
5:30 pm
Location: Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre | 355 Cooper St, Ottawa, ON

Ottawa Chamberfest’s Chamber Chat shines a spotlight on the featured composers of this year’s New Music Now series: Vincent Ho, Kelly-Marie Murphy, and Steven Gellman.

ad lucem

July 13, 2025
5 pm
Location: St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, Ottawa, ON

Elvira Misbakhova – viola / alto
Megan Milatz – piano

Featured in NAC Orchestra Korea & Japan tour program

May 25, 2025 - June 8, 2025
Location: Korea and Japan

From honouring jazz legend Oscar Peterson at Expo 2025 Osaka, Japan, to presenting international premieres of works by Kelly-Marie Murphy and Keiko Devaux, the NAC Orchestra and its creative partners will celebrate the brilliance of Canadian artists across generations.

And so be changed to lightning in the end

May 23, 2025
8:00 pm
Location: Tlaqná, Cultural Center

Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa, Rodrigo Cadet, guest conductor
CONCERT FOR THE 30TH EDITION OF FILU DEDICATED TO CANADA AND THE USA

From the Drum Comes a Thundering Beat

April 26, 2025
Location: Halifax, NS

Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra

And Then At Night, I Paint the Stars (Harp Concerto)

April 25, 2025 - April 26, 2025
Location: Germany

Sächsischer Musikrat

Star Burning Blue (2000) 

March 15, 2025
Location: Merkin Concert Hall, New York City

Pianists Anthony de Mare and Adam Sherkin join forces for this all-Canadian program COMPOSERS IN PLAY XV: “Ink from the Shield”. Adam Sherkin plays Murphy’s work.

Curiosity, Genius, and the Search for Petula Clark

February 14, 2025

Recording release by Toronto Symphony Orchestra with Stravinky’s Pulcinella – Recorded Feb 2024.

The Unstoppable Fear Machine

February 13, 2025 - February 15, 2025
Location: Vancouver, BC

2 saxophones and piano. Presented at the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference.

Violin Concerto (World Première)

February 13, 2025 - February 14, 2025
Location: Québec City, QC

Kerson Leong, violin + Les Violon de Roy; Nicolas Ellis, conductor. Palais Montcalm – Maison de la musique.

ad lucem (World Première)

February 9, 2025
Location: Vancouver, BC

In recital by Ryan Davis/Radia, viola with Lucas Wong, piano. Co-commissioned with Chamber Factory.
Roy Barnett Recital Hall

Drumming the Plain, the Horseman is Coming

January 26, 2025
Location: Manchester, UK

RNCM Brass Band, 2025 RNCM International Brass Band Festival, RNCM Concert Hall.

O Frabjous Day, Alice Slays!

January 25, 2025
Location: Manchester, UK

Athena Brass Band, in the 2025 RNCM International Brass Band Festival. RNCM Concert Hall.

Dark Nights, Bright Stars, Vast Universe & Death and Transfiguration (Recording)

January 17, 2025

Poema 1. Ad Astra – Recording release from Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra with Strauss’s Don Juan and Kevin Lau’s The Infinite Reaches. Conductor: Alexander Shelley

2024

And So Be Changed to Lightning in the End

January 26, 2024 - January 28, 2024
Location: The Orpheum, 601 Smithe Street, Vancouver

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra; Nicolas Ellis, Conductor

Curiosity, Genius, and the Search for Petula Clark

February 23, 2024 - February 24, 2024
Location: Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto

Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Curiosity, Genius, and the Search for Petula Clark

March 8, 2024
Location: Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Concertgebouw Orchestra

Curiosity, Genius, and the Search for Petula Clark

May 3, 2024
Location: Koerner Hall, Toronto

Royal Conservatory Orchestra

Curiosity, Genius, and the Search for Petula Clark

May 7, 2024
Location: Carnegie Hall, New York

Royal Conservatory Orchestra

On Rethinking Heroism in the 21st Century

May 23, 2024 - May 25, 2024
Location: Rennes, France

Orchestre de Bretagne, Direction musicale: Nicolas Ellis

This Is the Colour of My Dreams

October 27, 2024
Location: Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary

Beth Root Sandvoss, cello & Calgary Civic Symphony

Dark Nights, Bright Stars, Vast Universe (U.S. première)

October 28, 2024
Location: Tsai Performance Center, Boston

Boston University Orchestra; Sarah Ioannides, conductor

Dark Nights, Bright Stars, Vast Universe

November 15, 2024 - November 16, 2024
Location: Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary

Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra; Sarah Ioannides, conductor

Trajectories, Entanglements, and Intersections (World Première)

November 22, 2024
Location: Basel, Switzerland

2023

Dragon, Unfolding

January 21, 2023
Location: Victoria

Victoria Symphony Orchestra

Mentor for Composers Institute

January 25, 2023 - January 30, 2023
Location: Winnipeg New Music Festival

Machines, Mannequins, and Monsters (WORLD PREMIERE)

February 1, 2023
Location: Winnipeg

SHHH!! Ensemble + Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra,
Winnipeg New Music Festival

In the Time of Our Disbelieving

February 4, 2023 - February 5, 2023
Location: Kamloops,BC

Kamloops Symphony Orchestra

Machines, Mannequins, and Monsters

February 9, 2023
Location: Thunder Bay, ON

SHHH!! Ensemble + Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra

Light the Night: The Symphony Illustrated/Illumine la nuit: la symphonie illustrée (WORLD PREMIERE)

March 16, 2023
Location: Drummondville

Orchestre Symphonique de Drummondville

En El Escuro Es Todo Uno

March 25, 2023
Location: Washington State

Skagit Symphony Orchestra

Oblique Light (Toronto Summer Music Festival)

July 26, 2023
7:30 pm
Location: Walter Hall, 80 Queens Park, Toronto

New Orford String Quartet: Jonathan Crow, violin; Andrew Wan, violin; Sharon Wei, viola; Brian Manker, cello 

Give Me Phoenix Wings to Fly (Ottawa Chamberfest)

July 27, 2023
7:00 pm
Location: Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre | 355 Cooper St, Ottawa, ON

Gryphon Trio

For Fragile Personalities in Anxious Times (Ottawa Chamberfest)

July 30, 2023
7:00 pm
Location: Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre | 355 Cooper St, Ottawa, ON

Lafayette String Quartet featuring James Campbell

Dance me to your Beauty with a Burning Violin (Festival of the Sound)

August 3, 2023
2:30 pm
Location: Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts, Parry Sound

INSPIRED BY CLARA: Duo Concertante, violin and piano; Cameron Crozman and Rachel Mercer, cello; Angela Park, piano

Into the Darkness They Go, The Wise and the Lovely (National Youth Brass Band )

August 5, 2023
7:00 pm
Location: Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, England

National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain Summer Concert “Music from around the World”Guest Conductor: Sarah IoannidesGuest Soloist: Scott Hartmann, trombone

Prima-Goodman Fantasy

September 9, 2023 - September 24, 2023
Location: Debut Atlantic Tour, Eastern Canada

La Fiammata Piano Duo

The Unstoppable Fear Machine

September 14, 2023
Location: Arkansas State University

US premiere

The Unstoppable Fear Machine

September 14, 2023
Location: University of Regina

Canadian premiere

Si veriash a la rana

October 29, 2023
Location: Philippe-Filion du Centre des arts, Shawinigan, QC

Valerie Milot + Stéphane Tetreault

Flowers Band, for Brass in Concert

November 18, 2023
Location: Sage Gateshead, UK

Dark Nights, Bright Stars, Vast Universe

November 22, 2023 - November 23, 2023
Location: Southam Hall, 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Canada

World Premiere, National Arts Centre Orchestra

Si veriash a la rana

December 2, 2023
Location: Salle Michel-Côté, Alma, QC

Valerie Milot + Stéphane Tetreault

The Saxophone Music of Kelly-Marie Murphy

December 6, 2023
Location: World Saxophone Congress, Casa Museo Colón, Spain

Preston Duncan, saxophone presents:Dynamic SequencesThe Unstoppable Fear Machine

2022

Oblique Light (string quartet) 

June 24, 2022
Location: Paris
Quatuor Odyssée


Glacial Ablations (oboe + piano) (WORLD PREMIERE)

June 4, 2022
Location: Ottawa
Chip Hamann and Frédérick Lacroix


And the Sun Brought Darkness (trombone + piano) (WORLD PREMIERE)

June 2, 2022
Location: Wolfville, NS
Dale Sorenson

Dr. Blue’s Rapidly Deployable Escape Ladder – 2 pianos (WORLD PREMIERE)

July 23, 2022
Location: Ottawa

Duo Octavian

Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine (Recording Release) – SHHHH!! Ensemble

September 26, 2022 - September 29, 2022
Location: Ottawa

CD: Meanwhile
Analekta Label

Dark Energy (Recording Release) – Andara Quartet

October 1, 2022 - October 31, 2022

Final Glimpse (Recording Release) – VC2

October 1, 2022
Location: Toronto

CD: I and Thou
Leaf Music Label

Give Me Phoenix Wings to Fly (Recording Release) – Odeon Trio

October 16, 2022
Location: Berlin

CD: Phoenix

For Fragile Personalities in Anxious Time (WORLD PREMIERE)

October 20, 2022 - October 23, 2022
Location: Victoria and Pender Harbour

Lafayette String Quartet

En El Escuro Es Todo Uno

October 22, 2022 - October 23, 2022
Location: London

London Sinfonia with Angela Schwarzkopf and Cameron Crozman

En El Escuro Es Todo Uno

November 26, 2022
Location: Regina

Regina Symphony Orchestra with Couloir

By-By Lullaby (WORLD PREMIERE)

December 4, 2022
Location: Vancouver

Vancouver Bach Choir

Kelly-Marie Murphy, composer