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2017 Orford Music Festival : Programming Unveiled

By Newswire on 23 April 2017 Arts Industry, Canadian Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Piano, Scena Jazz, Violin

Orford, April 20, 2017. – Orford Music is proud to present the 2017 edition of its international Festival, Wonny Song’s second as artistic director. More than 70 events will take place throughout the summer, with Canadian artists figuring prominently as Canada celebrates the 150th anniversary of Confederation. “This summer promises to be a spectacular season, with some 20 performances in the Great Concerts series, and something for every taste. I am firmly committed to making classical music accessible to everyone and, with this in mind, we are creating opportunities to meet and discuss with the artists, as well as question-answer sessions…

New Maison de Radio-Canada project is a go

By Newswire on 21 April 2017 Arts Industry, Canadian Music, Newswire, Quebec Music

Montreal, April 18, 2017 – CBC/Radio-Canada announced that the Treasury Board of Canada has approved the new Maison de Radio-Canada (MRC) construction project led by Broccolini. The approval also includes the sale of the existing facility and western part of the lot to Groupe Mach. In the coming months, CBC/Radio-Canada will now work to finalize its agreements with the promoters and complete other steps with the City of Montreal before ground is broken. “Receiving Treasury Board approval is a critical step in making this project a reality, said Hubert T. Lacroix, President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada. It’s another vote of…

McGill Music Students to Present Holocaust Memorial Concert, “Petr’s Moon”

By Newswire on 13 April 2017 Arts Industry, Canadian Music, Classical Music, Newswire, Quebec Music

(MONTREAL)—In the week following Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Downwind Quintet, comprising McGill University graduate and undergraduate students, presents “Petr’s Moon,” a powerful recital in memory of the composers, artists, and children who perished in the Holocaust. The quintet performs on April 25, 2017, at 8:00 p.m. in Tanna Schulich Hall, in a dynamic and thought-provoking concert that incorporates narration, poetry, and film projection. Admission is free. The recital features music by composers Pavel Haas and Erwin Schulhoff, both of whom were killed in the concentration camps of World War II. Haas’ Wind Quintet, Op. 10, is a Modernist masterpiece, deeply…

Kent Nagano | Season Announcement 2017/18 Philharmonic State Orchestra and State Opera Hamburg

By Newswire on 13 April 2017 Arts Industry, Canadian Music, Classical, Newswire, Orchestral, Quebec Music, Strings

On 11 April 2017, Kent Nagano, General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra, together with GeorgesDelnon, director of the State Opera Hamburg, and John Neumeier, director of the Hamburg Ballet, announced their season 2017/18. Even before the official start of the opera and concert season, the Philharmonic Academy, as in the past two years, features music by composers who lived and worked in Hamburg, such as Telemann and Ligeti. On 2 and 10 September 2017, Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra present two Academy days of concerts at the Laeiszhalle…

Music Monday Celebration Expected to Engage Thousands of Music Makers

By Newswire on 8 April 2017 Canadian Music, Newswire, Quebec Music

IN CANADA’S LARGEST SIMULTANEOUS SING-ALONG 13th Annual Music Monday will be led by National Showcase Concert at National Arts Centre, Ottawa! DETAILS ON THE MONTREAL EVENT ON MONDAY, MAY 1 TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON! For Immediate Release, April 7 (Toronto, Canada) – On Monday, May 1st, thousands of students, musicians, parents and community members across the country will sing together creating the world’s largest single event dedicated to raising awareness for music education. A testament to the unifying power of music, from coast to coast to coast the nation comes together each year with the simultaneous singing of the Music…

Unveil of the 2017-18 OSM Season : Over 60 Programs and 105 Concerts as Striking evidence of its Diversity

By Newswire on 2 April 2017 Canadian Music, Classical, Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Quebec Music, Romantic, Strings, Violin

MAHLER, BEETHOVEN, MOZART AND VERDI HIGHLIGHT THE OSM SEASON WITH SUBLIME WORKS Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand” opens the season on a grand scale A finale with the complete Beethoven symphonies Mozart tints the season in a series of concerts featuring bold combinations Four sacred works: Verdi’s Requiem, Mozart’s C Minor Mass, Saint-Saëns’s Christmas Oratorio and Bach’s Magnificat The premiere of Matthew Ricketts’s Blood Line will celebrate 150 years of Confederation Nordic Festival from Mathieu to Sibelius: with Alain Lefèvre and Samian Science and fiction: a week in images and music when the OSM meets E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Express concerts:…

Samy Moussa, Photo: Manu Theobald

Samy Moussa Celebrates Montreal in Music: La Symphonie Montréalaise for the 375th with the OSM

By An-Laurence Higgins on 1 April 2017 150/375, Contemporary, Interviews, Quebec Music

Samy Moussa, a young Montreal composer, will see his work premiered on the occasion of the 375th anniversary of the city of Montreal by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. At 32 years old, Moussa has just won the 2017 Hindemith Prize, given to a contemporary composer and accompanied by an award of 20,000 euros. This is not the composer’s first collaboration with the OSM, since the soberly-titled Symphonie is his fifth orchestral commission. It is, however, his longest and most ambitious work. In a brief interview, Moussa spoke to us about the circumstances of the creation of the work and…

Louis Riel, UBC dress 2010, Photo: Evan Kreider

Deciphering Harry Somers’ Opera Louis Riel

By Réa Beaumont on 1 April 2017 150/375, Canadian Music, La Scena Spotlight, Opera

Louis Riel is one of the most important Canadian operas ever written. It was inspired by the life of controversial Métis hero Louis Riel (1844-1885) and events surrounding Canadian Confederation in 1867 that became defining moments in the country’s history. With a libretto by Canadian playwright Mavor Moore in collaboration with Jacques Languirand and music by Harry Somers, Louis Riel was premiered in Toronto by the Canadian Opera Company for Canada’s centennial celebrations and performed soon after at Montreal’s Expo ’67. Louis Riel is being programmed this year by the COC as a co-production with the National Arts Centre to…

Entre Félix et Django, fourth album of Christine Tassan et Les Imposteures receives the Prix Opus for Jazz Album of the Year

The 20th edition of the Prix Opus

By Dino Spaziani on 1 April 2017 Arts Industry, La Scena Spotlight, Quebec Music

This February 7, 2017, it was a celebration of the excellence of performance and artistic creation and the Conseil Québécois de la Musique, under the presidency of Robert Leroux, thanked the artists who contributed. Collectif9, with their youth and dynamism, were entrusted with the opening performance by the CQM. This great ensemble demonstrated that classical music demands a lot of effort. Their interpretation of Brahms required an exceptional form and a collective discipline. And for 2016, young performers were not shy to take their place in the spotlight. Beth McKenna received the prize for the Concert of the Year – Jazz and World Music for Home Montreal. Ballet-Opéra-Pantomime, a young company, has been…

Phil Cohen

Discovery Through Sound: The Art of Phil Cohen

By Kristine Berey on 1 April 2017 Interviews, Piano, Quebec Music

When retired Concordia music professor Phil Cohen was hospitalized in early February, his piano students didn’t want to miss their lesson, so they joined him at the Richardson Hospital where he was recovering. For a brief moment the common room was transformed into a concert hall with a master class in progress. As patients watched TV while others listened, the old beat-up piano-in-residence, freshly tuned for the occasion, filled the space with the music of Granados, Albeniz, and Prokofiev. This is a significant year for Cohen, who turned 90 in February. It is his 50th year since joining Concordia, where…

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