Joy Innis and Adrienne Shannon have shared a musical partnership built on artistic excellence, creative innovation, and a belief in music's power to connect people, cultures, and ideas. Together, they have developed an international career encompassing performance, education, cultural exchange, and community engagement.
About PALENAI
An extraordinary partnership
PALENAI Piano Duo has performed throughout Canada, in the United States, Europe, Israel, Korea, and Ukraine, appearing as soloists with many of Canada's leading orchestras, including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, and Victoria Symphony. Their performances and recordings have been featured on CBC, BBC, PBS, RIAS Berlin, and RAI Italy.
“Exhilarating — A standout at the Mainly Mozart Festival.”
— Toronto Star
“ Encompassing sensitivity.”
— The Muncie Star
Innovation in Performance
Straw Stacks_March Thaw
Illingworth Kerr
Long before multimedia concerts became common, Joy and Adrienne were integrating live performance with original visual imagery, bringing together music, photography, film and, later, digital animation. These productions developed over many years as new technologies expanded the possibilities for combining music and visual art.
“You have challenged us to expand our perceptions, to engage our visual senses and explore new interpretations of music.”
— Nomination, TELUS Arts of the Future Award
The International Stage
Watch & Listen
Selected performances and recordings from PALENAI’s concert career.
Schubert — Fantasie in F minor
Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
Debussy — En blanc et noir · Scherzando
Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts