We see the performance of live music as a collective

experience to enhance human connections in our

lives. We measure the success of our concerts by
the connection we have to our music, and by how
we communicate this connection to our audiences.
We seek to build community through our art, an
especially important goal in the modern world.
We value moments where music is created in the
same space and time it is listened to.
Our duo is a truly collaborative endeavour.
We believe that beautiful music for flute and
pianowith a select expansion into contemporary
repertoirehas a limitless capacity to reach our
audiences, both intellectually and emotionally.
We are committed to offering the best repertoire,
performed at the highest level.
Judy Tye Arts Management
519 272 5150 | tye-arts.com
dumlavdeppe.ca
lieseldeppe.ca | dumlavwalla.com
It takes an individual with equal gumption to
tackle a work that defies the norm in composi-
tional aesthetics and expectations as it does to
perform it with the composers intent in mind.
~ Ontario Arts Review on Diana Dumlavwalla
To paraphrase the song in Carousel, spring
was bustin out all over in Vivaldis Piccolo
Concerto in C-major. Some high notes hit by
soloist Liesel Deppe might have prompted
audience members to glance skywards for
evidence of uninvited guests on the wing..
~ Ted Shaw, The Windsor Star
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Program Selections
Include:
Beautifully in control
of shaping and
expressing the
essence of the music
~ The Expositor
Liesel Deppe Diana Dumlavwalla
Female Canadian Composers, including
Schmidt, Ho, Weaver, Uyeda
French Composers, including Debussy,
Jolivet, Leclair, Dutilleux, Messiaen
German Romantic Composers, including
Schubert, Schumann, Karg-Elert
Composers Through the Ages, e.g. Bach,
Schumann, Rutter
Also available as a trio with the
addition of a cellist
In 2011, Diana Dumlavwalla became the first
pianist to receive a Doctor of Musical Arts
Performance degree at the University of
Toronto. She studied piano with James Parker and
completed pedagogical
research under
the direction of
Midori Koga.
Diana is an
Assistant
Professor at
the University
of Western
Ontario.
In addition
to UWO, she
teaches at the
University of Toronto
and previously instructed
at the University of Windsor and Wilfrid Laurier
University. She is Director of the Childrens Piano
Pedagogy Program at the University of Toronto,
a member of the Royal Conservatory of Musics
College of Examiners and a sought-after private
instructor in Brantford.
Diana is an award-winner musician who has
performed throughout North America, Europe and
Australia. She received a Master of Music degree
from the Royal College of Music in London,
England, a Bachelor of Music in Piano
Performance and Voice from Wilfrid Laurier
University and Associate diploma from the Royal
Conservatory of Music. She has also studied with
many fine pedagogues including Agnes Olsheski,
Virginia Blaha, Heather Taves,Yonty Solomon
and Logan Skelton
Liesel Deppe, a member of the Windsor Symphony
Orchestra, has performed throughout South
Africa, Europe, the United States, and Canada.
Career highlights include touring with the
Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra in Europe
and Israel, and solo performances with the
Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra, the
National Academy Orchestra, and the Windsor
Symphony Orchestra. She is a former member of
the Central City Opera Company, the Fort Collins
Symphony Orchestra, the National Academy
Orchestra, and performed as a substitute member
with the the Colorado Springs Orchestra.
Born in South Africa, Liesel completed her
undergraduate studies at the University of Kwa-
Zulu-Natal. She is the recipient of a scholarship
from the German Academic Exchange Service
and received a Meisterklassendiplom from the
Hochschule fr Musik und Theater in Munich,
Germany, She has a Masters from the University
of Western Ontario and a Doctor of Musical Arts
from the University of Toronto. She has studied
with Alexa Still, Leslie
Newman, Jennifer
Stinton, Richard
Davies and
Stewart
McIlwham.
She lives in
Stratford,
where she
performs
with the
chamber
music series,
INNERchamber..