Nicolas Namoradze : Honens 2018 Winner
Born in Georgia but raised in Hungary, the pianist-composer Nicolas Namoradze launched his international career when he became the winner of the 2018 Honens International…
Carol Xiong
Carol Xiong
Carol Xiong is ever-interested in connecting disparate cultures and human experiences. She holds a Master of Music from the Unversité de Montréal, a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music, as well as an ARCT from the Royal Conservatory of Music. She is currently pursuing her DEPA in piano performance at the Université de Montréal. You may find out more about her here: http://www.carolxiong.com
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Higher education news
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One might assume a leading expert on Early Music to be esoteric. Hank Knox shatters this assumption. An entire side of Knox’s McGill University office is…
We Do Not Hear What They Heard – Tuning and Temperament Through the Ages (Part 1)
The practice of using period instruments in Early Music has facilitated a general awareness of how Baroque pitch is about a semitone lower than modern…
