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CMIM 2025: Our Predictions

By La Scena Musicale Team on 31 March 2025 Art Song, Classical Music, Montreal, Music Competition, Opera, Vocal

Each year, La Scena Musicale assembles an informal jury that listens, grades and evaluates the 24 participants of the Concours musical international de Montreal (CMIM). For this year’s Voice edition, a team consisting of La Scena’s voice specialists Adrian Rodriguez, Justin Bernard, Wah Keung Chan and Gianmarco Segato have drawn their top predictions for the competition winners. Jingjing Xu, mezzo-soprano, China Aria 1st: Adrian, Gianmarco Song 1st: Adrian, Gianmarco, Justin, Wah Keung AR: Jingjing Xu possesses what can only be described as flawless bel canto technique—her voice is consistently focused, her coloratura is impeccable, she can sing forte and (AR…

Orchestre Métropolitain. Photo: François Goupil

Review | Orchestre Métropolitain Delivers Three Cs of Success with Schubert’s ‘The Great’

By Michelle Assay on 28 March 2025 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Montreal, Orchestral, Piano

In these troubling moments, music brings us what the news doesn’t. There is nothing ‘fake’ here”. Thus, a characteristically engaging Yannick Nézet-Séguin announced what he called “one of my favourite programs”: three chronologically close works, united by their shared tonality (C). The three Cs reminded me of the “Communication, collaboration and commitment” mantra of motivational speakers; add competence, confidence and consistency, and you have a fair summary of this outstanding Orchestre Métropolitain concert (heard on March 26). The Overture No. 3 by Emilie Mayer, dubbed ‘the Female Beethoven’ in her time, had as much Rossinian warmth and Mendelssohnian youthfulness as…

Cameron Crozman and Meagan Milatz. Photo: Antoine Saito

Preview | HausMusique Revives Chamber Music Within Montreal Art Deco Splendour

By Amanda Wong on 26 March 2025 Classical Music, Montreal, Piano, Strings

The first time pianist Meagan Milatz and cellist Cameron Crozman played together was for a backyard concert during the pandemic. A few years later, this collaboration blossomed from friendship into their exciting passion project, HausMusique, where select guest musicians join the duo in Montreal’s heritage venue, Le 9e, to play chamber music concerts. Le 9e is the recently-restored 9th floor restaurant-turned-event-space in the old Eaton’s Centre on rue Sainte-Catherine in Montreal. Within its luxurious Art Deco setting, the pair have managed to recreate the sort of intimate ambience similar to the house concerts first popularized in Europe during the 19th…

Photo: Kilyan Sockalingum

An Inspiring Budget for the Arts Sector: Le Front commun Celebrates a Major Victory

By Newswire on 26 March 2025 Arts Industry, Montreal, Newswire

Montréal, Tuesday, March 25, 2025 – The 21 organizations that form the Front commun pour les arts welcome the budget presented on March 25, 2025, with satisfaction and extend their thanks to Ministers Éric Girard and Mathieu Lacombe. Since the release of the budget in March 2024, Le Front commun has taken shape and intensified its efforts to bring recognition to the crisis facing the arts sector, while launching an exceptional and interdisciplinary mobilization. The aim of this movement was to halt the deterioration of the cultural ecosystem by calling for rapid and sustainable action from the Government of Quebec.…

Happy Hour Concert: Touches modernes : Debussy, Descarries, Louie

By Newswire on 22 March 2025 Classical Music, Montreal, Newswire, Piano

Only Two Weeks Left Until The Final Happy Hour Concert of the Season! 😊 Modern Touches: Debussy, Descarries, Louie Gabrielle Gagnon-Picard, piano April 3, 2025 Joseph-Rouleau Hall (Montreal) 7 p.m. (complimentary cocktail as of 6 p.m.) For the final Happy Hour Concert of the season, discover the masterpieces of Debussy, the richness of Descarries’ compositions, and the contemporary boldness of Alexina Louie, performed with emotion and virtuosity by Gabrielle Gagnon-Picard. Let yourself be transported by her sensitive interpretation and immerse yourself in the creative power of impressionist and contemporary compositions from the past 100 years. On tour until April 29,…

Festival de la Voix: A Celebration of Cultural Diversity

By Adrian Rodriguez on 20 March 2025 Arts Industry, Folk, Indigenous, Interviews, Jazz, Montreal, Popular Music, Vocal, World Music

Since its inception, Le Festival de la Voix has been dedicated to showcasing the beauty of the human voice, offering audiences a rich variety of vocal music from classical to jazz, folk, and world music. For its 12th edition, the festival continues to spotlight artistic diversity and meaningful cultural collaborations. One of its highlights is Nikamu Mamuitun (Songs That Unite Us), a project uniting Indigenous and Quebecer singer-songwriters to explore shared histories and musical traditions by blending French and Innu lyrics to reinforce connection and reconciliation. Eight emerging artists will present the results of their work at the Beaconsfield High…

Ana Sokolović & Kris Defoort Compose imposed works of the 2025 Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition

By Newswire on 20 March 2025 Canadian Music, Classical, Montreal, Music Competition, Newswire, Piano, Quebec Music, Scena Jazz

Announcement of the composers of the unpublished imposed works for the 2025 Piano Competition Semi-final Ana Sokolović – Two Studies for Piano www.anasokolovic.com A key figure in contemporary music, composer Ana Sokolović was born in Belgrade, Serbia, and has been based in Montreal since 1992. With a background in the rhythmic universe of Balkan folklore, her music is coloured with playful images and inspired by diverse artistic disciplines. Her vast repertoire is regularly performed both in Canada and internationally. According to Operabase, Sokolović is the fourth most performed female opera composer in the world in the last decade according to Operabase. Her opera, Svadba, which ‘seems to…

Fauré Quartett. Photo: Tim Kloecker

Review | Chamber Music with the Fauré Quartett

By Amanda Wong on 20 March 2025 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Montreal, Piano, Strings

Despite the lack of works by Gabriel Fauré on the program, the Fauré Quartett (aptly named for the French composer) impressed with their remarkable playing in a well-balanced recital for the Montreal Ladies’ Morning Musical Club on March 16. This German quartet has been performing together for 30 years with the same founding members from 1995. The group consists of typical piano quartet instruments: piano (Dirk Mommertz), violin (Erika Geldsetzer), viola (Sascha Frömbling), and cello (Konstantin Heidrich). What you missed The Fauré Quartett’s repertoire has developed a “visionary, experimental” style as per the program notes, with the group playing many…

NTS unveils the 2025 Gascon-Thomas Award recipients

By Newswire on 18 March 2025 Arts Industry, Dance, Film, Montreal, Multimedia, Music Competition, Musical Theatre, Newswire, Theatre, Toronto

ahdri zhina mandiela and Brigitte Poupart: Recipients of the 2025 Gascon-Thomas Awards from the National Theatre School of Canada Montreal, March 18, 2025 – The National Theatre School of Canada (NTS) is proud to announce the recipients of the 32nd edition of the Gascon-Thomas Awards. This prestigious event recognizes outstanding artists who have made a lasting impact on the performing arts landscape in Canada and beyond. This year, NTS is celebrating two major figures in theatre and multidisciplinary arts: ahdri zhina mandiela and Brigitte Poupart. ahdri zhina mandiela, a pivotal figure in Canada’s artistic landscape, is the recipient of the…

Rameau et la muse oubliée, a musical theatre performance

By Newswire on 17 March 2025 Canadian Music, Classical, Contemporary, Montreal, Musical Theatre, Newswire, Theatre, Vocal

Rameau et la muse oubliée, a brilliant new show at the Théâtre Rouge of the Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique de Montréal with Luc Beauséjour and Marie-Ève Beaulieu Montreal, March 17th, 2025. Clavecin en concert invites you to a musical theatre on March 29th and 30th. In the afterlife, almost 300 years after his death, composer Jean-Philippe Rameau (Luc Beauséjour) is visited by a young woman (Marie-Ève Beaulieu), who claims to have inspired the character of Zima in his famous opera Les Indes galantes. Suffering from oblivion, she confronts the composer, demanding justice or, at the very least, a little…

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