Friday May 29, 2026 at 7:30 pm
Guelph Youth Music Centre Recital Hall
75 Cardigan Street, Guelph, ON
75 Cardigan Street, Guelph, ON
REPEAT PERFORMANCE
Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society
Sunday May 31, 2026 at 3 pm
Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society
Sunday May 31, 2026 at 3 pm
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Festival Trio
Sadie Fields violin
Katie Schlaikjer cello
Ken Gee piano
Katie Schlaikjer cello
Ken Gee piano
Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3
Michael Conway Baker Piano Trio
Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 (final version)
Michael Conway Baker Piano Trio
Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 (final version)
Cellist Katie Schlaikjer joins violinist Sadie Fields and Guelph Musicfest director/pianist Ken Gee as the new member of the Festival Trio which has been performing since 2014.
Sadie now lives in Brussels, Belgium, and has a stellar career in Europe, performing in top-drawer ensembles, and recently become the new principal violinist of the famed Edinburgh String Quartet. But she grew up in Guelph before heading off for studies in Manchester and London, UK.
Katie Schlaikjer is the new member of the Festival Trio, as Paul Pulford has now retired from concert performance. Katie is well known as a member of the JUNO-winning Penderecki String Quartet, quartet-in-residence at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty of Music in Waterloo, Ontario. At Laurier she serves on the performance faculty, teaching cello and chamber music.
Ken is a Hamilton native and he was very involved in the local music scene, performing, organizing concerts, managing a string chamber orchestra, and was even a music critic for the Hamilton Spectator. Now living happily in Guelph, he has been performing even more, and founded and continues to organize Guelph Musicfest by himself.
Sadie now lives in Brussels, Belgium, and has a stellar career in Europe, performing in top-drawer ensembles, and recently become the new principal violinist of the famed Edinburgh String Quartet. But she grew up in Guelph before heading off for studies in Manchester and London, UK.
Katie Schlaikjer is the new member of the Festival Trio, as Paul Pulford has now retired from concert performance. Katie is well known as a member of the JUNO-winning Penderecki String Quartet, quartet-in-residence at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty of Music in Waterloo, Ontario. At Laurier she serves on the performance faculty, teaching cello and chamber music.
Ken is a Hamilton native and he was very involved in the local music scene, performing, organizing concerts, managing a string chamber orchestra, and was even a music critic for the Hamilton Spectator. Now living happily in Guelph, he has been performing even more, and founded and continues to organize Guelph Musicfest by himself.
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This 20th Anniversary Season is dedicated to the memory of Diana Philbrick, a true lover of music and great supporter of Guelph Musicfest.
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