Alexandre Da Costa: Striving for Perfection
Appointed last year as chief conductor of the Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil (OSDL), violinist Alexandre Da Costa is very much delighted by the audience’s response…
Yearly Archives: 2020
Airat Ichmouratov: The Neo-Romantic with a Passion for Klezmer
His favorite repertoire includes works by great Russian composers including Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky and Borodin. “It’s in my blood. I grew up in…
Jonathan Cohen Brings Many Skills to Les Violons du Roy
Meet Jonathan Cohen, cellist, baroque cellist, classical cellist, orchestral player, chamber musician, Cambridge scholar, pianist, harpsichordist, conductor, recreational sailor, father of one. And most importantly…
Greater Toronto Area Performing Arts and Cultural Centres
Canada is truly a diverse nation and a mosaic of many different communities. Each community tries to authentically serve up to its constituents the best…
Industry News
Shekumania hits the U.K. The 20-year-old British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason in January became the first classical artist to crack the Top 10 of the UK…
Xian Zhang: A Conductor to Watch
Xian Zhang’s career spans continents. She conducts 80 to 100 concerts a year, divided between her posts as music director of the New Jersey Symphony…
Grazyna Bacewicz: Complete violin sonatas (Muso)
The missing voice in modern Polish music is female. At the time of her early death, aged 59, in 1969, two contemporaries of Grazyna Bacewicz,…
Jean-Claude Picard of the OSTR “A good conductor must be a good leader”
by Adrian Rodriguez and Andréanne Venne It’s a homecoming for conductor Jean-Claude Picard, who has studied and worked in Europe for the past 12 years…
Dance: DANCE HIGHLIGHTS
FEBRUARY Montreal choreographer Louise Bédard celebrates 30 years of her eponymous company with Promesses, performed by six talented dancers alternating duos and counterpoints. Wilder Building,…
Dance: JEAN-SÉBASTIEN LOURDAIS, THE INTIMATE BODY
After denouncing the dissonances of the human condition, Jean-Sébastien Lourdais has chosen to embrace the somatic approach. Les appuis imaginés, the newest creation by the…
