Adaptive Concert: Charlotte Tang, fortepiano

Hear the piano as it once was—intimate, expressive, and alive.

How did music sound 200 years ago? Step into a 19th-century drawing room and experience the piano as audiences once did—rich with imagination, nuance, and human connection. Performed on a historical fortepiano, this immersive concert brings to life beloved works by Chopin, Schubert, Liszt, Beethoven, Clara Schumann, and more.

Audience members are invited to draw and respond creatively throughout the performance, making this concert a shared artistic experience.

The evening is led by award-winning fortepianist Charlotte Tang, whose performances are shaped by deep research into the expressive possibilities of early pianos. A laureate of the 2024 Musica Antiqua Competition in Bruges and recipient of the 2025 Early Music America Emerging Artist Award, Tang reveals colours, textures, and emotional nuance rarely heard on modern instruments.

Praised as an “expressive, fine chamber musician,” she brings both scholarly insight and artistic sensitivity to the stage—offering a vivid, intimate encounter with music history.

This is more than a concert—it’s a journey into the sound world of the past.

This adaptive music performance is being presented in a family-friendly, inclusive environment that embraces neurodiversity and disability.
The performance will run up to 60 minutes and includes a Q&A session with the artists.

Friendly Reminder: This is a scent-free concert. Please refrain bringing food and refrain from wearing perfume, cologne, scented lotions, body sprays, or other fragranced products, as members of our staff and performers have severe scent and food allergies.

Complimentary tickets for infants (aged 0-12 months) and support persons - please contact the Ticket Office for more information.
All sales final.

Concert Accessibility Features

• All expressions welcome! Feel free to make noise, get up, or stim!
• Wheelchair accessible venue
• Gender-neutral, wheelchair accessible washrooms
• PDF Venue Guide 
• Accessible PDF concert programs and listening guide emailed before event
• Fidget toys and noise-cancelling earmuffs can be provided upon request (please bring your own if you can)
• Flexible seating and a separate area for breaks
• Stretch breaks
• Visual schedule
• Xenia Concerts can also provide live ASL interpretation at our events upon request, given sufficient lead time. If you would like to request ASL interpretation, please send a request to kaylce.carter@xeniaconcerts.com at least ten (10) days before the event.

Questions and accessibility requests

Xenia Concerts is committed to meeting the needs of our audience to the best of our abilities. If you have a question or request, we really do want to hear from you!

Please review a Visual Venue Guide for this show.

For accessibility and general inquiries, please contact Xenia Concerts at info@xeniaconcerts.com or call 437-441-7543.

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