Album Of The Week for the week of September 28, 2025
Nominated for Classical Recording of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards, “Glass House Dancing” by renowned Canadian pianist Sarah Hagen, is an exquisite album of finely curated classical music pieces for solo piano. Hagen’s mastery of the Yamaha C7 piano as well as the delightfully sparse arrangements of all 17 tracks on this gem of an album make for the perfect elixir.
This divinely tranquil hour long listening experience offers up some of the most achingly beautiful compositions from the finest composers of two centuries including enchanting pieces by Satie, Debussy, Chopin, Grieg, Rachmaninoff, Mendelssohn, Brahms and more!
Hagen, a highly sought-after recitalist, soloist and chamber musician, has performed concerts across Canada as well as in the United States, France, Italy, Germany, and Sweden. She has performed TWICE at New York’s legendary Carnegie Hall and has been awarded Artist of the Year by both Ontario Contact and the British Columbia Touring Council.
Throughout her storied career, Hagen’s unique interpretations of the classical cannon have been described as both outstandingly inventive and flawlessly executed. Both a visionary and an idealist, her performances are conceptually innovative, known for involving multi medias including photography, dance and spoken word.
She is Artistic Director for Pro’ject Sound, a performance project involving live piano with large-scale projected images. Her collaboration “Exultation” with Canadian Slam Poetry Champion Brendan McLeod explored Rachmaninoff’s complete Opus 32 Preludes through poetry and storytelling.
As a First Prize Winner at the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition, Hagen was awarded her first opportunity to perform solo at New York City’s Carnegie Hall.
In 2021 she released her fourth album, J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, which was heralded by Whole Note Magazine as “something to absolutely die for” winning two 2022 Music PEI awards for Instrumental Recording of the Year and Album Art of the Year.
Her albums include Women of Note, featuring female composers of the 19th century, winning the 2021 Music PEI Instrumental Recording of the Year; Devoted: Music of Robert & Clara Schumann with violinist Martin Chalifour, concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; and Glass House Dancing, nominated for Classical Recording of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards. She also collaborated with cellist Marit Sjödin in Helsingborg, Sweden recording Concealed Diamonds, an album of masterworks for cello and piano.
Hagen has completed five residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts and enjoyed two terms there as collaborative pianist. During her years on the west coast of Canada, she founded nine concert series, curating each one individually, inviting artists from across Canada and around the world to share the stage with her.
She has toured throughout Sweden numerous times with cellist Marit Sjödin, violinist Ian Peaston, and Per Johansson, principal clarinet of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. Other international concerts of note include a recital at DePaul University with Oto Carrillo, hornist in the Chicago Symphony, Schumann Piano Quintet in Darmstadt with members of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, and a performance at Carnegie Hall with Polish flautist Krzysztof Kaczka.
Hagen is currently embarking on her Autumn Tour 2025 and can be seen at the following venues:
Sarah Hagen Autumn Tour 2025
September 20 – New River Beach, NB
September 21 – Amherst, NS
October 3 – Charlottetown, PEl
October 7 – Comox, BC
October 15 – Burlington, ON
October 17 – Elgin, ON
October 23 – Kenora, ON
October 25 – Sioux Lookout, ON
November 15 – Chester, NS
November 16 – Canning, NS
November 19 – Halifax, NS
November 21 – Charlottetown, PEl November 22 – Fredericton, NB
November 27 – Duncan, BC
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