Sunday, April 19th 2026

India Gailey & Leah Plave

In the spirit of anarchy and exploration, award-winning artists India Gailey and Leah Plave present brand-new music for two cellos. The program features premieres by seven Canadian composers who have agreed to this surprising but refreshing prompt. This show will be a sneak peak of the music before their album comes out! India Gailey (she/they) is an award-winning Canadian cellist, composer, vocalist, and improviser. She draws from many eras and genres to craft poetic narratives of sound, most often performing in the realms of classical and experimental music. Named by CBC as one of “30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30,” India has toured across the Western hemisphere as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborator. She frequently works with living composers, filmmakers, dancers, visual artists, and musicians of various stripes to create works of exploratory art. India has worked with several admired composers of our time, including Philip Glass, Yaz Lancaster, Amy Brandon, Fjóla Evans, Michael Harrison, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Nicole Lizée, and Julia Mermelstein. Raised on a diet of Bach and Brahms, now heavily tattooed and genre-bent artist Leah Plave embraces not only classical but contemporary, electronic, non-Western, and ancient music. She frequently collaborates with living composers and seeks interdisciplinary, cross-cultural projects. Leah is based in the Netherlands, where her love for both the traditional and non-traditional canon have seen her performing in spaces ranging from posh concert halls to deconstructed airplanes and candlelit living rooms. She is an outspoken advocate for inclusive programming, and before an untimely deportation from Canada served as Artistic Director and cellist of the Montréal Music Collective.