Based in Ithaca, NY, Canadian pianist Ariel Mo is sought-after as a versatile performer and thoughtful collaborator committed to a range of repertoire from the 18th century to today. Upcoming projects include six new works for solo piano with electronics & media, and a short film with cellist Annie Hyung exploring works by Bach, Brahms, and Katherine Balch, featuring a 1857 Streicher piano from the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards as well as the university’s particle accelerator. She also created and directed ALL THE WRONG NOTES: Charles Ives at 150, a four-day festival celebrating Ives’ sesquicentennial, where she performed the complete Ives Violin Sonatas with violinist KJ Macdonald; and WATERx, a hybrid concert-installation with original music by East Coast composers. Ariel performs regularly with Boston-based Trio Gaia, and has attended many festivals in the US and Europe, from a residency at MASS MoCA with Bang On a Can to Ensemble Modern’s inaugural Hans Zender Akademie. She is currently in the second year of her DMA at Cornell University with pianist Xak Bjerken, and holds a GD, MM, and BM from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with pianists Alessio Bax, Pavel Nersessian, Stephen Drury, Bruce Brubaker, and Victor Rosenbaum.