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Prince Edward County Classical Music Festival, 2012. Stéphane and the NOSQ accepting a standing ovation after a performance of Elgar’s Piano Quintet. (From left to right: Stéphane Lemelin, Brian Manker, Eric Nowlin, Jonathan Crow and Andrew Wan).

New Artistic Director for the Prince Edward County Classical Music Festival

PICTON, ON – Stéphane Lemelin, founding artistic director of the Prince Edward County Classical Music Festival, has announced that the 2017 Festival will be his final season. The Board of the Prince Edward County Classical Music Festival is delighted to announce the appointment of the New Orford String Quartet as new artistic directors of the Festival, effective October 1, 2017. Stéphane Lemelin first visited Prince Edward County while on a Piano Six tour in 2001. He fell in love with the beauty and charm of the County and the friendliness and enthusiasm of the people. He realized it would be an ideal…

Symphony Nova Scotia presents Free concerts across the city with its first-ever summer season

By Newswire on 17 July 2017 150/375, Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Folk, Newswire, Orchestral

HALIFAX, NS – This summer, Symphony Nova Scotia proudly presents its first-ever summer season, featuring 13 FREE concerts and events in public venues throughout Halifax from July 17 to 31. The festivities will feature Symphony Nova Scotia musicians giving live performances at venues like the Alderney Landing Theatre, the Keshen Goodman Public Library, and the Halifax Central Library’s O’Regan Hall. Highlights include the RDV 2017 Tall Ships Regatta Celebration on the waterfront with Natalie MacMaster, full-orchestra performances celebrating Nova Scotia with singer Reeny Smith and Mi’kmaq drummer Trevor Gould in Halifax and Dartmouth, and a charming afternoon Tea Dance with Halifax Pride at the Halifax Citadel. The full-orchestra concerts will be conducted by Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, Symphony Nova Scotia’s Artist in Residence and Community…

Lebrecht Weekly – Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli: Sonate da Camera, 1-6 (Delphian)

By Norman Lebrecht on 20 June 2017 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews, Chamber Music, Lebrecht Weekly, Violin

Never heard of Carbonelli? Don’t feel too bad about it. The Vivaldi scholar Michael Talbot writes that he ‘has remained unknown, even to specialists’. Listen to the music, though, and you will wonder how work of such quality and intricacy could vanish so comprehensively into the mists of history. Carbonelli was a star violinist in London during Handel’s time. Born in Livorno in 1694 and possibly half-French, he becomes concertmaster at Drury Lane Theatre at the age of 25 and a much sought-after soloist. The Duke of Rutland paid for the publication of 12 sonatas and Carbonelli seemed well set…

Photo: Graham McDowell

Ideas of North Concert Confronts Climate Change with Sound

By Orphée Russell on 7 June 2017 Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Contemporary, La Scena Spotlight

On Saturday, July 10 at 8:30 pm, the Centre des Arts Actuels Skol and Pronto Musica Chamber Orchestra will present the free concert Ideas of North. The multidisciplinary event brings together artists and researchers in a collaboration that celebrates the North and questions Canadian attitudes towards climate adaptation. With the arctic warming, what will the Canadian North look like in the coming years? How does our perspective of this issue change, when viewed from the lens of an Inuit, ecological, or Southern Canadian viewpoint? Ideas of North will use music to engage audience members on these questions. Vancouver-based environmental change…

Ensemble La Cigale: Up in the Morning Early (Leaf Music)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 June 2017 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews, Chamber Music

Up in the Morning Early Ensemble La Cigale Madeleine Owen, lute, theorbo; Sara Lackie, harp; Vincent Lauzer, recorders; Marie-Laurence Primeau, viola da gamba; Sara Tsuji, violin Leaf Music 2017, LM 211, 73 min 17 s. Ensemble La Cigale’s sophomore offering – their first album, Tiorba Obbligata for solo theorbo and accompaniment, was a Prix Opus finalist in 2012–13 – shows sophistication in its simplicity. The Celtic Baroque repertoire on this recording, oft-forgotten in contemporary considerations of the period, actually included some of the tunes and cultured styles that inspired continental European composers from George Frideric Handel to Francesco Geminiani. Returning…

Kronos Quartet, Photo: Jay Blakesberg

The Kronos Quartet Looks to the Future

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 June 2017 150/375, Chamber Music, Contemporary, Interviews

For Canada’s Sesquicentennial celebration, Ottawa’s 8th annual Music and Beyond Festival boasts a star-studded slate including Sarah Chang, Measha Brueggergosman, and Garrick Ohlsson, among other local and international favourites. From July 4 to 17, festivalgoers will enjoy a truly multi-disciplinary menu of classical music with artistic collaborations that include dance, visual art, poetry, comedy – even yoga for those who are feeling more adventurous. Of the 75 concerts and events scheduled, one of the most anticipated guests is surely the Kronos Quartet, who will perform at Dominion-Chalmers United Church on July 5. For over forty years, the string quartet has…

Flûte Alors!

Music and Beyond 2017

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 June 2017 Chamber Music

With over 75 concerts spread out over the entire city, there’s gotta be something that will tickle your fancy at Ottawa’s Music and Beyond Festival this season, which runs July 4 to 17. With their festival passes, festivalgoers will experience a veritable buffet of multi-disciplinary artistic collaborations that pair classical music with drama, dance, visual art, poetry, comedy – even yoga and wine. Invited guests include soprano Myriam Leblanc (5), the Elmer Iseler Singers (July 5), Quartango (6), next-gen recorder ensemble Flûte Alors! (7), the Canadian Brass (7), the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra with soprano Measha Brueggergosman (7), Quartetto Gelato…

Windermere String Quartet: Inner Landscapes (Pipistrelle Music)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 June 2017 CD and Book Reviews, Chamber Music, Contemporary, Romantic

Inner Landscapes Windermere String Quartet; Elizabeth Loewen Andrews, violin; Michelle Odorico, violin; Anthony Rapoport, viola; Laura Jones, cello Pipistrelle Music, PIP 1216, 71 min 22 s. With Inner Lanscapes, the Windermere String Quartet shows how far they’ve come since their 2012 debut The Golden Age of String Quartets, which featured the Classical masters: Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart. This disc features a commission by Canadian composer Robert Rival, Traces of a Silent Landscape, which was inspired by the Beethoven and Mendelssohn quartets on either side. The group plays on Classical period instruments, a bit lighter in tone perhaps, but no less…

Milton String Quartet

Milton Quartet Wins Gold Medal & Grand Prize at the 2017 Fischoff

By Newswire on 16 May 2017 Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Newswire

The Milton Quartet wins the Gold Medal & Grand Prize at the 2017 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Following in the footsteps of the Lloyd Carr-Harris Quartet, winner in 2005, the quartet studies under the tutelage of Prof. André J. Roy, director of the McGill International String Quartet Academy (MISQA). Home in South Bend, Indiana, the Fischoff Competition is the largest chamber of its kind in the world. Each year, an average of 125 ensembles, representing 22 nationalities enter the competition. The Schulich School of Music of McGill University is very proud of the achievement of the Milton Quartet and…

Les Violons du Roy, Photo: David Cannon

This Week in Montreal: Operatic Rendez-Vous with Les Violons du Roy

By Kiersten van Vliet on 8 May 2017 Chamber Music, Opera, This Week in Montreal

Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur This week: a recital for cello with Elinor Frey (May 11), and the 6th instalment of the Schubert Sonata Cycle by pianist Mathieu Gaudet (May 14). Cinema du Parc With the growing enthusiasm around the world for the presentation of live operas at the cinema, the Cinema du Parc will be presenting unique live events this spring from the Gran Theater del Liceu in Barcelona. On 14 May, see the presentation of Verdi’s masterpiece Rigoletto, libretto by Piave and inspired by Victor Hugo. See the Duke of Mantua and his jester Rigoletto in a mise-en-scène with…

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