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OCAD U honorary doctorates 2023

Newswire | OCAD University to recognize five changemakers with honorary doctorates

By Newswire on 1 June 2023 Arts Industry, Education, Newswire, Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, May 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – On June 9, OCAD University will award honorary doctorates to five remarkable individuals who have been leaders of change, having made a direct impact on arts and culture in Canada and worldwide. “We are excited to honour these inspiring individuals who have left indelible marks in their respective fields, making positive change possible,” says OCAD U’s President and Vice-Chancellor Ana Serrano. “These honorands all share the same exceptional passion and commitment to driving meaningful, long-lasting impact that we encourage at OCAD U.” The honorands will join more than 700 students from OCAD…

Newswire | Art of Time Ensemble Announces 25th Anniversary Season & Ensuing Closure

By Newswire on 31 May 2023 Newswire, Toronto

Toronto, ON (May 30, 2023) … This year Art of Time Ensemble, led by its founding Artistic Director Andrew Burashko, celebrates its 25th anniversary and announces its final concert season. Mr. Burashko has announced an exciting slate of live concerts and special projects that span the next 18 months, after which he plans to wind down the critically acclaimed arts organization in 2025. “When I started Art of Time Ensemble in 1998, I wanted to create a chamber music series like no other,” said Mr. Burashko. “I wanted to take classical music out of its silo and present it alongside…

Museum and Gallery Exhibition Picks

By Robin Mader on 29 May 2023 Montreal, Ottawa, Scena Arts, Toronto, Vancouver, Visual Arts

QUEBEC Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg, ongoing This narrative sequence of 30 tableaux forms a triptych more than 40 metres long. On display here in a glass case with subtle lighting, Jean Paul Riopelle’s largest work was acquired by the museum in 1996 and has been seen by more than 1.3 million people since that date. Riopelle began work on this immense composition in his studio on Île-aux-Oies in November 1992, after having learned of the death in Paris of his former companion, the American painter Joan Mitchell (1926-1992). Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg is a…

Kerson Leong. Photo: Marco Borggreve

Newswire | Ladies’ Morning Musical Club Announces Its 2023-2024 Season

By Newswire on 29 May 2023 Montreal, Newswire

Montreal, May 29 2023 – The Ladies’ Morning Musical Club is pleased to announce the 2023-2024 season. Dates of the 132nd season September 10, 2023 Kerson Leong, violin October 1, 2023 Jerusalem Quartet, strings October 22, 2023 Rémi Geniet, piano November 12, 2023 Danish String Quartet December 3, 2023 Hermitage Piano Trio, piano and strings February 14, 2024 Javier Perianes, piano February 25, 2024 Escher String Quartet with Roman Rabinovitch, piano March 17, 2024 Pavel Haas Quartet, strings April 7, 2024 Stewart Goodyear, piano April 28, 2024 Doric String Quartet Concerts will be…

Photo: Raoul Manuel Schnell

Quatuor Despax: All in the family

By Justin Bernard on 29 May 2023 Chamber Music, Interviews, Ottawa, Strings

The kinship that unites the members of the Quatuor Despax has stood the test of time—20 years, to be exact. Dedicating itself to a wide range of musical genres over the years, the group has kept its momentum going by maintaining its ties to kin, friends and music lovers alike. For those who may not know them, they are brothers and sisters (two of each) who play the required instruments for a standard string quartet comprised of two violins, a viola and a cello. A recent meeting with them for a conversation left no doubts about the family…

Mary-Jane Puiu (1950 – 2023)

By Wah Keung Chan on 27 May 2023 Choral, Education, Montreal, Obituaries

My first choral conductor Mary-Jane Puiu (b. March 8, 1950) passed away on May 16, 2023 at the age of 73. According to tenor Eduardo Aparicio, “despite battling a long devastating disease, she heroically managed to keep conducting her choir till the last minute of her life.” We pay tribute to Puiu by republishing a profile/interview I conducted of her in La Scena Musicale in 2010 for her 60th birthday. According to the McGill Choral Society’s Facebook page, here are the details of the service on June 12, 2023: An Orthodox service for close friends and family will be held…

Photo: Jag Gundu

Review | Toronto Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky Masterworks Elevated by Star Power

By Denise Lai on 26 May 2023 Classical Music, Orchestral, Toronto, Violin

How do you top a musical program of a world premiere paired with two classical warhorses? You add a star soloist from violin royalty. This week’s program is true to music director Gustavo Gimeno’s vision for the TSO’s centennial to introduce new commissions along with the familiar. The TSO commission and world premiere entitled “Hwa (Flowering)” is a new work from its own Affiliate Composer, the young Alison Yun-Fei Jiang. Jiang wrote this piece as a tribute to her grandmother and all the women who shaped her life. She describes the piece as a musical painting, an orchestral canvas on…

Fire at Chapelle du Bon Pasteur

By Eva Stone-Barney on 26 May 2023 La Scena Online, Montreal

Montreal mourns devastation at the Monastère du Bon Pasteur this morning. Over 150 firefighters were called to control a five-alarm fire yesterday evening, around 4:30pm. While no one has been seriously injured, 27 people have been displaced, with one man (age 80) sent to hospital. Predominantly located on the roof, the fire has created so much smoke that Environment Canada has issued a special air quality statement for the Montreal region. While the extent of the damage remains unclear, the fire department currently believes that the building will not be completely lost. Built in 1846, the historic building is both…

John Rutter (Photo provided)

Music and Beyond: The Big Comeback!

By Charles Geyer on 26 May 2023 Classical, Contemporary, Indigenous, Ottawa

It’s back! And it promises to be as big and bold as ever. It’s Music and Beyond, Ottawa’s summer music and arts festival which—every July since its inception in 2010—has blossomed across the capital in a gloriously scatter-cast profusion of musical sounds, styles and intriguing interdisciplinary programming. “The public is ready to return,” says Julian Armour, the festival’s plucky and indefatigable founder and artistic and executive director. “We’re doing a big festival! We’re going to do about 64 different major concerts.” It’s a bracing and welcome assertion of renewal, after the scaled-back famine years of global pandemic. Rock and a…

Concert de plein air au festival de Lanaudière en 2022 (Photo fournie)

Lanaudière Festival 2023

By Eva Stone-Barney on 26 May 2023 Classical, Montreal

Canadian classical music will make a home for itself in Joliette, Que., from July 7 to Aug. 6. The festival will include 14 concerts at the beautiful Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay, and a variety of other performances at the town’s churches, outdoor cultural venues and agritourism sites. The OSM and Rafael Payare will open the festival with a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (July 7), and will return the following night to pay homage to the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff’s birth (July 8). William Christie and Les Arts Florissants will present Handel’s Partenope (July 15). Canadian superstar conductor Yannick Nézet-Séquin and the…

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