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The Orchestre Classique de Montréal announces a new partnership and residency at Salle Pierre-Mercure

By Newswire on 15 January 2021 Chamber Music

Montreal, Monday, January 11, 2021 – After two highly successful webcast concerts which welcomed over 3000 viewings from all over the world, the Orchestre Classique de Montréal is proud to continue its 81st season, A Musical Tour of the World, adapted in accordance with public health guidelines. Performances will be made available online for two weeks through pay platforms, for only $20 per concert. The OCM is proud to be collaborating with Guillaume Lombart and the LiveToune team in the high quality broadcasts of its performances. After many years performing in various Montréal venues, the OCM is proud to announce…

The Lebrecht Weekly: Edward Elgar – Partsongs, From the Bavarian Highlands (BR Klassik)

By Norman Lebrecht on 15 January 2021 Lebrecht Weekly, Orchestral

Sir Simon Rattle, who became a German citizen this week, prefers to work with an English chorusmaster. In Berlin he had his former Birmingham partner, Simon Halsey. At his new job with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, he will find Howard Arman in charge of the salaried singers. Arman, a graduate of Trinity College London, has spent the past 40 years in German-speaking companies, working in Halle, Leipzig, Salzburg and Lucerne. The Munich he took over in 2017 choir is top-notch. Even a devoted Elgarian may be forgiven for never having heard these part-songs. The early ones, dated 1894, have words by…

The OSM Announces a Series of Five Online Concerts

By Newswire on 14 January 2021 Classical Music, Orchestral

Montreal, January 14, 2021 – The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal announces a series of five new concerts to be broadcast on OSM.CA between January 19 and April 13, 2021. The first two concerts will give music lovers an opportunity to better acquaint themselves with Rafael Payare, the Orchestra’s recently appointed music director for the 2022-2023 season. The maestro will be joined alternately by pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin and cellist Alisa Weilerstein. Passion and love will fill the air in February, when the Orchestra presents Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, under the baton of conductor Alexander Shelley, while irony and drama will take…

The SMCQ announces the 10th edition of its Montreal/New Musics festival

By Newswire on 14 January 2021 Contemporary

Montreal, January 14, 2021 – The Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) outlines the 10th edition of its Montreal/New Musics festival (MNM), to be held from February 18 to 28, 2021. The MNM festival is reinventing itself to offer an unprecedented online sound odyssey with the theme Au-delà des frontières (Beyond Borders). MNM 2021 will stand out for the global aspect that webcast now offers, and through its programming, tinged with openness and discovery. Thus for 10 days musical and artistic frontiers will open up to reveal new and unprecedented sounds with universal accents. “I have always wanted to…

Ontario’s Stay at Home Regulations Cause Cancellations and Postponements to RCM’s 20-21 Season and 21C Festival

By Newswire on 14 January 2021 Arts Industry, Classical Music

This week, the Ontario government extended and tightened restrictions for everyone in Ontario. Unfortunately, these new restrictions mean that concert halls remain closed to audiences and now we also are unable to have artists or production staff creating livestreams. This is a profoundly disappointing blow to all of us at The Royal Conservatory and to our artists who were so looking forward to performing. The Conservatory had had to postpone and reschedule all concerts and livestreams for the next 28 days, as follows: 21C MUSIC FESTIVAL The Glenn Gould School New Music Ensemble: FLIPBOOK: Music and Images originally scheduled for…

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The Conseil québécois de la musique will present Kent Nagano with the Prix Opus Hommage

By Newswire on 14 January 2021 Classical Music

Montreal, January 11, 2021 – The Conseil québécois de la musique (CQM) will present the Prix Opus Hommage to Maestro Kent Nagano at the 24th edition of the Prix Opus gala, broadcast on the Facebook page of La Fabrique culturelle de Télé-Québec, on Sunday, February 7 at 4 p.m. This prize, awarded annually by the CQM’s Board of Directors, recognizes an individual’s exceptional contribution to the Quebec music scene. In the sixteen years he has been musical and artistic director of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano has raised and maintained the level of excellence of this institution that…

Sébastien Ricard at the Salle Ludger-Duvernay

Prélude à l’opéra: When absence haunts us

By Newswire on 12 January 2021 Contemporary, Opera

WHEN ABSENCE HAUNTS US The postponement of the creation of L’orangeraie gave an opportunity for Chants Libres to film Prélude à l’opéra in the deserted Monument-National. This digital event, inspired by excerpts from the opera and coloured by constraints imposed on the performing arts milieu, will be webcast on January 21, 2021. “After four years of work, I received the last notes of the score in March of 2020 just before the lockdown,” explains Pauline Vaillancourt. “We were ready for what was to come (costumes, rehearsals, set design, etc.), everything that is requires for the months leading up to a…

2021 Honens Competition Quaterfinals Postponed

By Newswire on 12 January 2021 Arts Industry, Music Competition, Piano

Calgary, AB, January 12, 2021—National lockdowns, imposed quarantine periods, and increased travel restrictions have made it impossible for most arts organizations to proceed with their programs and events in the timelines that were originally planned. For these reasons, and to ensure the continued good health and safety of all involved, Honens has made the difficult decision to postpone its 2021 Quarterfinals. These recitals, which were scheduled to take place in Berlin and New York in March, will now take place in mid- to late- June. As plans are still being developed, more specific information will be shared as soon as it…

Rafael Payare

Solid start for Payare, maybe more to come

By Arthur Kaptainis on 11 January 2021 Classical Music

Went well, as they say. There were no calamities to report after the webcast debut on Sunday of Rafael Payare as the music-director-to-be of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Nor many revelations in a 65-minute program (film intro included) of standards by Berlioz and Brahms from the empty Maison symphonique. Perhaps these will be forthcoming in two online concerts still not announced. Or at least sometime before September 2022, when the MSO appointment becomes official. Rather than offer something new, the 40-year-old Venezuelan chose to pay homage to MSO tradition and to symphonic tradition in general. First up was Berlioz’s Carnaval Romain, a…

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Rafael Payare will reorchestrate the music scene in Montreal

By Arthur Kaptainis on 8 January 2021 Arts Industry, Orchestral

He has the hair. He has the flair. A Venezuelan who lives in Berlin, Rafael Payare has the international cachet that can fairly be deemed a vital prerequisite for a music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He does not have the French, although acquiring it is a high priority. Presumably Payare will make progress by 2022-23, when he is installed officially in the position, armed with a substantial initial contract of five years. What happens between now and then is clouded by post-COVID uncertainty, but Payare will be styled music director designate as of September. He might be said…

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