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By Kaitlyn Chan on 3 April 2025 150/375, Classical Music, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto, Vancouver

Montreal Concert Highlights Bourgie Hall Pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin returns to Bourgie Hall on April 12 to play works by Debussy, Albéniz, Poulenc, and Chopin. This concert concludes with the four Scherzos by Chopin, one of Richard-Hamelin’s favourite composers. In the following week, Les Idées heureuses performs their 17th Passion Concert. Since 2023, this project, established by Geneviève Soly, explores Christoph Graupner’s Passiontide cantatas, which were composed for Good Friday. Les Idées heureuses welcomes the same collaborators who have participated in this complete work since 2023 to perform four cantatas at Bourgie Hall on April 18. www.mbam.qc.ca Orchestre symphonique de…

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2025 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Laureates Announced

By Newswire on 3 March 2025 Arts Industry, Music Competition, Newswire, Ottawa

OTTAWA, February 20, 2025 – The Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of Canada’s highest distinction in the performing arts. The laureates of the 2025 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA) for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, which recognize artists who have made an indelible contribution to cultural life in Canada and around the world, are: Bob Ezrin, O.C. – Music and entertainment producer, music education advocate and serial activist In a legendary career as a music and entertainment producer and entrepreneur, Bob Ezrin has worked around the world on recordings, TV, film, and live…

Orchestras Guide for Quebec and Ontario

By La Scena Musicale Team on 31 January 2025 Canadian Music, Classical, Classical Music, Montreal, Orchestral, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto

QUEBEC Arion Orchestre Baroque arionbaroque.com At the heart of Montreal’s musical life for over forty years, Arion Orchestre Baroque is a pioneer in Quebec and Canada in the world of early music on period instruments. Under the artistic direction of conductor and bassoonist Mathieu Lussier since 2019, Arion presents a concert series featuring internationally renowned guest conductors and soloists. The clarity and freshness of Arion’s interpretations of Baroque and Classical works are underpinned by a discography of over thirty critically acclaimed and award-winning titles. Committed to the creation and dissemination of youth and educational projects, and a partner of renowned…

Julian Armour & Guylaine Lemaire: Finding Balance

By Kaitlyn Chan on 31 January 2025 Arts Industry, Classical Music, Interviews, Multimedia, Orchestral, Ottawa, Strings

This February, renowned musicians and artistic leaders Julian Armour and Guylaine Lemaire celebrate 20 years of marriage. The Ottawa-based couple have contributed significantly to the Canadian music scene for decades now as both performers and arts administrators. Amidst all this busyness, Armour and Lemaire are also the proud parents of four boys. Armour and Lemaire wear several hats in their professional lives. Armour is the artistic and executive director of Music and Beyond, artistic director of the Chamber Players of Canada, principal cellist of the chamber orchestra Thirteen Strings, and teaches at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. Retired…

First Volume in Groundbreaking Strauss Recording Project

By Newswire on 17 January 2025 Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Ottawa

January 17, 2025 – OTTAWA (Canada) – Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) is celebrating an important milestone in its visionary recording project devoted to the tone poems of Richard Strauss. Poema: Ad Astra, the first of four albums fusing Strauss’s creative brilliance with contemporary works by leading Canadian composers, is now available for purchase and streaming worldwide via the Analekta music label. This latest addition to NACO’s award-winning discography pairs Strauss’s Don Juan with Kelly-Marie Murphy’s Dark Nights, Bright Stars, Vast Universe and Death and Transfiguration with Kevin Lau’s The Infinite Reaches. The NAC Orchestra commissioned both pieces and premiered them in Southam Hall in 2023. Strauss has long been a favourite…

Canada's NAC Orchestra (2024-2025 Season). Photo: Rémi Thériault

NAC Orchestra Set to Embark on a Monumental International Tour

By Newswire on 16 January 2025 Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Ottawa

January 16, 2025 – OTTAWA (Canada) – Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) is proud to announce the launch of its latest international tour. This major tour will see the NAC Orchestra, led by Music Director Alexander Shelley, return to Japan for the first time in 40 years and debut in the Republic of Korea. NACO and Shelley, along with star pianists Yeol Eum Son (in Korea) and Olga Scheps (in Japan), will visit and perform in six cities at some of the world’s most renowned concert halls, including Tokyo’s Suntory Hall and the Seoul Arts Center. The Orchestra’s concert…

Upcoming Concerts: Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto, West of Canada

By Heather Weinreb on 11 November 2024 Chamber Music, Classical, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto, Vancouver

On Tour Barbara Hannigan & Bertrand Chamayou Photo: Luciano Romano Barbara Hannigan & Bertrand Chamayou In celebration of their recent “Messaien” album release, Juno and Grammy Award-winning soprano Barbara Hannigan and pianist Bertrand Chamayou will tour Canada and the U.S. in November and December. The concert opens with Messaien’s Chants de terre et de ciel, rich with complex rhythms and vibrant, vocal colours. In addition, Hannigan and Chamayou will perform Scriabin’s Poème-nocturne, and Vers la flamme alongside John Zorn’s Jumalattaret —a sign cycle using text from Finnish epic poetry. The tour stops in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, and Ottawa along…

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Choral Calendar (Nov 2024)

By Kristen Whittle on 9 November 2024 Choral, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto, Vancouver

West Early Music Vancouver Dec. 22, Vancouver Under the direction of Alexander Weimann, Early Music Vancouver will present a pairing of “Festive Cantatas” featuring Gloria in excelsis Deo cantata by J.S. Bach and Missa Nativitatis Domini by Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. www.earlymusic.bc.ca Vancouver Chamber Choir Dec. 12, 13, Vancouver Peace and tranquility is the theme of the Vancouver Chamber Choir’s holiday concert entitled “Christmas by Candlelight.” Under the direction of Kari Turunen, the choir will present a large selection of holiday classics and new works, including Laura Hawley’s Mary called it an angel and the world première of Chris…

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Henry Kennedy Appointed First Resident Conductor of NAC Orchestra

By Newswire on 4 July 2024 Arts Industry, Orchestral, Ottawa

Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) is delighted to announce that Nova Scotian conductor Henry Kennedy has been selected as its new Resident Conductor.

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Ottawa Chamberfest: From Grieg to Gaga

By Bridget Esler on 31 May 2024 Chamber Music, Ottawa

The Ottawa Chamberfest will celebrate its 30th birthday this summer with more than 60 concerts and events over two weeks, featuring some of Canada’s brightest stars, including Angela Hewitt and Marc-André Hamelin. Yet, big names aren’t the focus at Chamberfest 30. This year’s theme is “championing.” Artistic Director Carissa Klopoushak has encouraged performers to champion something they care about in their programs—be it a social cause, a little-known composer, or an emerging artist. This directive is the reason Hewitt will share the stage with rising-star-of-the-piano-world Carter Johnson, and Arion Baroque Orchestra will explore gender in a gender-bent concert of Handel…

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