Our Mission

Facet Music is a non-profit organization committed to preserving the traditions of Asian music and arts by demonstrating their importance and relevance in Canadian society. We promote traditional and innovative Asian music and performing arts by:

  • discovering and presenting talented artists

  • producing high-concept shows and events

  • providing educational programs to the public

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
— Audre Lorde

Jiajia Li - Facet Music co-founder

Classically trained flutist Jiajia Li is being praised as "one of the city's finest and most adventurous flautists”. She was the 2016 recipient of Canada’s “Juno” music award micro grant and a multi-time scholarship recipient from the Banff Centre.S…

Classically trained flutist Jiajia Li is being praised as "one of the city's finest and most adventurous flautists”. She was the 2016 recipient of Canada’s “Juno” music award micro grant and a multi-time scholarship recipient from the Banff Centre.

Since her arrival in Calgary in 2014, Jiajia has forged her identity through music and performance, cutting across a wide range of modern musical experimentations and traditions.

Currently a faculty member at the Mount Royal Conservatory, Jiajia is an active performer and has joined the sublist of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra.

Miki Wu - Facet Music co-founder

With both an MBA and a background in marketing and advertising, Miki Wu worked for international banks and multinational advertising agencies for ten plus years in Beijing, China.After moving to Canada with her family, Miki started her own Chinese a…

With both an MBA and a background in marketing and advertising, Miki Wu worked for international banks and multinational advertising agencies for ten plus years in Beijing, China.

After moving to Canada with her family, Miki started her own Chinese antique furniture business with her husband and became very involved with Calgarys interior design community.

Her unique warehouse showroom has become a space to showcase arts and culture by hosting the successful “Warehouse Talks” and “Warehouse Live Concert” series which have been noted as great examples of cross-cultural community events by Avenue magazine.

[Donation to Red Cross for Covid-19] Two months have passed since our Facet Music 2020 Calgary Chinese New Year concert. After all the twists and turns, today we finally fulfilled our promise — donating half of the concert ’s box office i
Song of the Phoenix - 2020 Chinese New Year Show. Thanks all for coming! 🙌 Photos 📸 XY Photo Studio; 📸 1022
MRU Conservatory @mruconservatory offers Chinese Music Lessons. Calgary is a global platform for music, as the city is home to many culturally diverse communities. Eager to promote Eastern Classical music studies at Mount Royal Conservatory, we are e
On Saturday night you will also be treated to music by dynamic jazz trombonist Carsten Rubeling. His piece, “Bighorn Sounding”, explores the dual nature of shadow and light.
Our Chinese New Year show also features FOONYAP, an artist described by CBC Music as “a lush, weird and intoxicating blend of electro-opera meets experimental pop”.
Have you ever heard of the double-reed Chinese horn, the suona? The concert features a master of the instrument, Wu Zhongxi from China, who will perform one of the Chinese classics: “Song of the Phoenix”, with Calgary Chinese Orchestra.
We proudly present PEP (Piano and Erhu Project) from Vancouver. Pianist Cory Hamm and Erhuist Nicole Ge Li make up the virtuosic duo which has been a cross-cultural phenomenon in western Canada.
Dear friends, as you know, there is a coronavirus outbreak in China in the midst of the country’s biggest celebration, Chinese New Year. We all feel this tragedy deeply and want to help our brothers and sisters in China in their time of need.