Esprit Orchestra: Keeping audiences on the edge of their seats
Esprit Orchestra’s 2024-25 season is titled “The Edge of Your Seat”—but that could well describe their entire ethos. Established in 1983 by Music Director and…
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2024 Azrieli Music Prizes
Composers Yair Klartag, Josef Bardanashvili, Jordan Nobles and Juan Trigos are the 2024 Azrieli Music Prizes laureates, named by the Azrieli Foundation. This biennial competition…
Upcoming Concerts: September 2024
The Orchestre classique de Montréal is celebrating its 85th season this year. Their first performance of the season honours their history of orchestral excellence, while also championing the future of Canadian opera.
Chamber Music & Solo Performances: Homegrown Talent & Canadian Debuts
Bourgie Hall’s 2024-25 season promises a wide range of chamber and solo musical performances, spanning numerous genres, centuries and musical styles. Perhaps most notably, Bourgie Hall will kick off a multi-year project: the performance of all of Franz Schubert’s lieder.
La Rentrée: Indigenous Artists
Polaris Music Prize-winner Jeremy Dutcher will join the National Arts Centre Orchestra and conductor Alexander Shelley for an evening of new music as part of his Motewolonuwok tour. He invites audiences into an evening of personal, intimate musical experiences….
Andrew McAnerney & SMAM: A World of Creative Possibilities
Andrew McAnerney comes by his love of early music, particularly choral repertoire, honestly. It’s a love affair that began quite early in the tenor-turned-conductor’s life.
Tanya Tagaq: Ears Wide Open
Tanya Tagaq has her ears open to the world around her. She is listening. From her home in Ikaluktutiak (Cambridge Bay, Nunavut), where the season of 24-hour sun is coming to an end, she describes how she hears.
Music Nova Scotia announces nominees for 2024 Nova Scotia Music & Industry Awards
Music Nova Scotia has announced the nominees for the 2024 Nova Scotia Music & Industry Awards.
Concert Previews: Opera5’s Turn of the Screw, Hit Musical Waitress in French, Chants Libres Presents Six New Works
The Broadway hit musical Waitress, adapted for the stage by composer and singer Sara Bareilles and librettist Jessie Nelson, is coming to Quebec—in French!
Alon Sariel at Early Music Vancouver’s Bach Untamed
Alon Sariel is as comfortable on the mandolin as he is on the lute, the archlute, the oud, and on the podium as a conductor.
