Nicole Linaksita has performed solo and chamber concerts in Canada, USA and Europe. A participant in national and international competitions, she was awarded First Place, Audience and Teacher’s Prizes at the 2011 Seattle International Piano Competition and was the third prize winner in the 42nd Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition. She was featured on the CBC 2019 list of 30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30 for her first prize win at the 2019 CMC Stepping Stone Competition.
Nicole has frequently performed the works of contemporary composers and her interest in new music has also led her to work with a number of composers, including Dorothy Chang and Yota Kobayashi.
Nicole has had the opportunity to debut with various orchestras such as the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vancouver Academy of Music Orchestra, the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra.
Nicole completed undergraduate studies in Piano Performance and Computer Science at the University of British Columbia in 2016, studying under Corey Hamm and Ryo Yanagitani, receiving the Director’s Graduation Prize for Outstanding Piano Performance. She recently graduated from her Masters of Music at the University of Texas in Austin under the tutelage of Professor Anton Nel.
The Postmodern Camerata 