Performances &#038; Events

Flowers Band, Paul Holland, Music Director

Into the Darkness They Go, The Wise and the Lovely

July 11, 2026 - July 12, 2026

Location: Kerkrade, The Netherlands

The Cooperation Band, Katrina Marzella, Music Director

Curiosity, Genius, and The Search For Petula Clark

July 12, 2026

Location: Buell Theatre, Denver, CO

Colorado Symphony Orchestra

It’s Like, I Don’t Know, You Know? *WORLD PREMIERE

July 26, 2026

Location: Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa, ON

SHHH!! Ensemble, NMN II: Fresh Ink, Ottawa Chamberfest

And Then At Night I Paint the Stars

July 31, 2026

Location: Metropolitan United Church, Toronto, ON

Judy Loman, harp

Dark Nights, Bright Stars, Vast Universe

August 27, 2026

Location: City Hall, Cape Town, South Africa

Spring Symphonies at the City HallCape Town Philharmonic Orchestra

A Thousand Natural Shocks

September 11, 2026 - September 13, 2026

Location: Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, BC

Vancouver Symphony, Otto Tausk, conductor.

Dark Nights, Bright Stars, Vast Universe

September 26, 2026 - September 27, 2026

Location: Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg, MB

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

Four Degrees of Freedom

September 27, 2026

Location: Metropolitan United Church, London, ON

Ensemble 132

A Thousand Natural Shocks

October 26, 2026

Location: Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY

Juilliard Orchestra

2026 Past

Untitled, WORLD PREMIERE

May 30, 2026

Location: Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Numus

Ashes, String quartet

May 9, 2026

Location: Jane Mallett Theatre, Toronto

Soundstreams

The Way Appears

April 29, 2026

Location: The Music Room, Halifax, Nova Scotia

India Gailey + Leah PlaveScotia Festival Chamber Players Series

Artifacts From the Auditory World

April 26, 2026

Location: Toronto Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players

The Way Appears

April 19, 2026

Location: Greenslades, Sackville, New Brunswick

India Gailey + Leah Plave

The Way Appears

April 18, 2026

Location: Marigold Cultural Centre, Truro, Nova Scotia

India Gailey + Leah Plave

The Way Appears (World Premiere)

April 17, 2026

Location: Piu Concerts – Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick

India Gailey + Leah Plave

A Thousand Natural Shocks

March 18, 2026 - March 19, 2026

Location: National Arts Centre Orchestra, Gemma New, conductor.

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

2025

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

January 17, 2025

Details / Listen

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Curiosity, Genius, and the Search for Petula Clark

February 14, 2025

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

Star Burning Blue (2000)

March 15, 2025

Location: Merkin Concert Hall, New York City

Tickets & Details

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.

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

April 25, 2025 - April 26, 2025

Location: Germany

Sächsischer Musikrat

From the Drum Comes a Thundering Beat

April 26, 2025

Location: Halifax, NS

Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra

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

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.

ad lucem

July 13, 2025

5 pm

Location: St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, Ottawa, ON

Elvira Misbakhova – viola / alto
Megan Milatz – 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.

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

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

ad lucem

August 13, 2025

8 pm

Location: La Maison Tresler, Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC

Elvira Misbakhova, violist
Meagan Milatz, pianist

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

Into the Darkness They Go, The Wise and the Lovely

September 15, 2025

Location: Osaka, Japan

Mikeneko Brass Band, Katrina Marzella, 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

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

The Book of Elegant Feelings

October 28, 2025 - November 1, 2025

Location: Winnipeg

International Cello Festival of Canada; Cameron Crozman

Huron Carol Interlude

November 16, 2025

4:00pm

Location: Bellows Falls Opera House, Bellows Falls, VT