Meagan Milatz
Piano
Meagan Milatz, pianist, is winner of the prestigious 2025-2028 Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer and the 2024 Prix Opus “Discovery of the Year”. She is “a remarkable pianist with a seemingly limitless palette of expression” (Le Devoir). Meagan regularly shares the stage with top international musicians including Andrew Wan, concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Dohr, Principal Horn of the Berlin Philharmonic, cellist Matt Haimovitz, and mandolinist Avi Avital.
Awarded the 2024 Prix Choquette-Symcox by Fondation Jeunesses Musicales Canada, Meagan’s recent engagements have included performances with Olivier Charlier, Michel Michalakakos, Cho-Liang Lin, Peter Hanson, Olivier Charlier, Pablo Hernán Benedí, Steven Dann, and tubist Øystein Baadsvik, among others. Internationally, Meagan has performed at the New Ross Piano Festival in Ireland in 2023 - the first Canadian musician to be invited - as well as at the Edeta Arts International Chamber Music Festival where she appeared in concert in Spain with violinists Wolfgang Redik in 2024 and Kai Gleusteen, concertmaster of the Orchestra del Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona, in 2022. Meagan recently embarked on a 2025 recital tour of China with cellist Cameron Crozman, and a European tour in Italy, France, Malta, and Portugal in 2024.
Meagan has appeared as soloist with the Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, Sherbrooke, and McGill Symphony Orchestras and will be featured with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in April 2027 in Mozart's Triple Piano Concerto alongside Charles RichardHamelin and Kevin Chen. Meagan was top prize winner in the Shean Piano Competition, CFMTA National Piano Competition, and Canadian Music Competition, and the recipient of a Sylva Gelber Music Foundation Award. Alongside violinist Amy Hillis, Meagan was winner of the first ever 50-concert Pan-Canadian Tour in the 2019/2020 season offered by Jeunesses Musicales Canada, Debut Atlantic, and Prairie Debut. Her performances are regularly broadcast on CBC/Radio-Canada.
Meagan has a deep passion for fortepianos and recently recorded a solo album, "Innig", in Belgium on an 1835 Conrad Graf fortepiano from the Chris Maene Museum Collection centred on Schumann’s "Kreisleriana", to be released by ATMA Classique in October 2026. Previously, she recorded an album for fortepiano and natural horn alongside Louis-Pierre Bergeron, "Bravura", released in December 2023 to great acclaim.
Meagan was recently appointed as Artistic Director of the Cecilian Chamber Series in her home province of Saskatchewan, where she began her studies before pursuing performance degrees from McGill University (B.Mus. and M.Mus.). She is grateful to her teachers and lifelong mentors Cherith Alexander, Ilya Poletaev, Philip Chiu, and Tom Beghin with whom she was greatly privileged to study the fortepiano. Enthusiastic about helping the next generation of young musicians, she has been a guest faculty member for the “Session sonates violon et piano” of Camp Musical du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean as well as for the 10,000 Hours piano studio in Ottawa.
Meagan is based in Montreal where she loves biking, reading outside whenever possible, and enjoying the occasional tasty pastry.