Daniel Taylor and Suzie LeBlanc shine with Handel’s Duos d’Amour
Saturday at the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours long-time collaborators Daniel Taylor and Suzie LeBlanc lit up the night with a dazzling display of virtuosity in a selection…
Kiersten van Vliet
Kiersten van Vliet
Kiersten van Vliet was the Web Editor and an Editorial Assistant for La Scena Musicale from 2015–17.
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And the 46th JUNO Award Nominees are…
Canada’s 2017 JUNO Award Nominations were announced today. The nominees represent an impressive cross-section of the Canadian musical scene; of the four Classical music categories…
Nicole Lizée: Techno-Hauntologist
“What happens when you find a ghost and you bring it into a work of music?” asks Nicole Lizée. Insofar as that question is answerable,…
Ehnes Quartet: Schubert & Sibelius String Quartets (Onyx)
Ehnes Quartet: James Ehnes & Amy Schwartz Moretti, violins; Richard O’Neill, viola; Robert deMaine, cello Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor “Death…
Industry News: February 2017
Industry Moves In mid-December, nine members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Board of Directors abruptly resigned from their positions, highlighting possible trouble behind the scenes.…
Daniel Taylor: The Tree of Life (Sony)
The Tree of Life Daniel Taylor & The Trinity Choir Sony 2016. 88985387032. 55 min. Its conspicuous release before Christmas is no accident: like the…
OdeM’s Dialogues des carmélites both Timely, Timeless
Stage Director Serge Denoncourt returns to the Opéra de Montréal for the first time in almost two decades, lending a measured dramaturgic eye to Poulenc’s…
mySCENA.org Contest Winner
In celebration of La Scena Musicale’s new online platform mySCENA.org and maSCENA.org, we launched an online raffle for Glenn Gould’s Complete Columbia Discography on 78…
Opera McGill at 60
If you peel back the layers of any opera company in Canada, you are likely to find Opera McGill graduates at every level: on the…
Wirth Vocal Prize 2016–17
The second annual Wirth Vocal Prize at McGill’s Schulich School of Music culminated in an evening of superior music-making by the three finalists: bass-baritone Jean-Philippe…
