We are delighted to announce our final evening concert of 2025 with Judith Valerie Engel. An Austrian pianist, musicologist and feminist scholar she holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and is currently persuing a DMA in Piano Performance at the University of British Columbia. With a particular interest in women composers she presents a varied programme of lesser known repetoire from the 18th & 19th Centuries.

Join us for a unique musical journey as we conclude our in-house events programme for 2025.

Programme

Marianna Martines
Sonata E major
I. Allegro
II. Andante
III. Allegro

Josepha Aurnhammer
Six Variations sur un Thême Hongrois, D major

Helene Liebmann
Sonata op. 2, E-flat major
I. Allegro maestoso
II. Andante con espressione
III. Allegretto. Thema: Pria ch'io l'impegno.

Biography

Judith Valerie Engel is an Austrian concert pianist, musicologist, and feminist scholar. She completed a DPhil (PhD) in Historical Musicology at the University of Oxford in 2025 and is currently pursuing a DMA in Piano Performance, but funded through the Department of Sociology, at the University of British Columbia. At Oxford, she was a Stone-Mallabar Music Scholar, funded by Christ Church, researching the 18th-century composer-performer and salonnière Marianna Martines. At UBC, she is one of the university’s Public Scholars, investigating how professional identities of contemporary Canadian women composers are shaped by – and intersect with – age, gender, the myth of meritocracy, and the dominant narrative of white male genius in classical music. Judith Valerie holds a BA and MA in Piano Performance from the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where she trained in the piano studio of Prof. Pavel Gililov. For many years, she also studied with renowned Austrian pianist Prof. Paul Badura-Skoda, and with Prof. Nina Igudesman.

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