You’re invited to come and see a brand new line of performances in our 50th Anniversary Fall 2025 Noon Hour Concert Series! Admission to the building is free, and a sandwich lunch is available for purchase prior to each recital between 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., with the concerts beginning at 12:15 p.m.
About Ladyfingers
Ladyfingers is a piano four hands collaboration of Ellen Meyer and Michelle Kyle. Ellen and Michelle began playing together in 2009 in Toronto. Michelle was then a member of the Toronto Heliconian Club and the founder and artistic director of The Birthday Series, a concert series that honoured composers with programs of their art songs and chamber music on their birthdays. Michelle invited Ellen to participate, and while preparing piano four hands music for concerts at Heliconian Hall, they enjoyed their shared enthusiasm for chamber music and cats. In 2025, they decided to renew their collaboration and continue exploring piano four hands repertoire.
About Ellen Meyer
Ellen Meyer is one of Ontario's most in-demand pianists. As a sought-after collaborator and soloist, Ellen has performed in eight Canadian provinces and several American venues, including Carnegie Hall, as well as in Germany, Spain, and Italy. Ellen has presented recitals with notable clarinetists including Ricardo Morales and Julian Bliss and has performed with participants in masterclasses of Karl Leister and Sabine Meyer, amongst many others. She is a graduate of the Music Performance program at the University of Toronto, studying with Pierre Souvairan and Jane Coop, and she also attended the Banff Centre of Performing Arts.
Her musical activities include working with wind students at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, coaching aspiring vocal and string artists, and occasionally playing for choirs around the Greater Toronto Area. Ellen has contributed to Kitchener-Waterloo’s musical scene for decades, playing for auditions at Wilfrid Laurier University since 1984 and for the Southwestern Ontario Suzuki Institute since 2000. Her recording credits include more than 15 commercial CDs, as well as soundtracks for feature film and documentaries. She has been seen and heard on CBC, CTV, MuchMusic, Bravo, TVO, CFRB, and WNED. Ellen is the caretaker for two Maine Coon cats, Penny and Caesar, who offer unsolicited opinions when she attempts to practice.
About Michelle Kyle
Michelle Kyle is a Renaissance woman of diverse experience and skills. As a pianist, she graduated from Laurier and earned a Fellowship Diploma from Trinity College of Music as a student of Garth Beckett, then completed a Master of Music in piano performance at McGill University under Tom Plaunt. As a cellist, she participated in Kitchener-Waterloo music as the past principal cellist of both the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra and the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Orchestra, and she completed Laurier’s Chamber Music Diploma in 2025. Michelle has been a collaborative pianist for voice and strings in Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo, music director and pianist for professional musical theatre in Montreal and Port Dalhousie, and a pianist and cellist for special events throughout and beyond Ontario for decades.
Her love of learning and adventure led her to complete degrees in law at Osgoode Hall and adult education at Brock University and study German at Uni Wien in Vienna; work as a lawyer, web developer at a major bank, and certified rock climbing instructor; and ride her bicycle over 7,200 kilometres across Canada and throughout the Netherlands, race keelboats, and ride a CB450T Hawk motorcycle. Michelle enjoys rural life with her husband and many cats and chickens.