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Newswire | The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and Médecins Francophones du Canada Launch Music on Prescription

By Newswire on 31 October 2025 Arts Industry, Montreal, Newswire, Orchestral, Philanthropy

Feature photo: Sacha Cohen – TUX Creative House Montreal, October 29, 2025 – United by a shared mission to bring the many benefits of music to the community, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Médecins francophones du Canada are joining forces to launch a new initiative: La musique sur ordonnance (Music on Prescription). Beginning today, physicians who are members of Médecins francophones du Canada and practice in Montreal will be able to prescribe an OSM concert to their patients, offering free access to a live musical experience as a complementary tool for wellness and health. The program will run from October 29, 2025 to October 28, 2026. A…

Newswire | Rachel Podger & Tafelmusik to Tour in Western Canada

By Newswire on 30 October 2025 Baroque and Early, Newswire, Orchestral, West

Toronto, ON (October 27, 2025) — This November, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, directed by the incomparable Rachel Podger, embarks on an exhilarating Western Canada and U.S. tour (November 4–22, 2025) with a program titled Brilliant Baroque, a vivid musical journey through 17th- and 18th-century Europe. Praised by The Times as “the unsurpassed British glory of the baroque violin,” Rachel Podger returns for her second season as Principal Guest Director, leading Tafelmusik in a program that captures the colour, energy, and expressive power of the baroque. From Lully’s lively French dances to Bach’s transcendent counterpoint, Brilliant Baroque celebrates a tapestry of brilliant…

Newswire | Bernard Labadie appointed Music Director of Les Violons du Roy

By Newswire on 28 October 2025 Arts Industry, Newswire, Orchestral, Quebec City

Quebec City, October 28, 2025 – Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Québec announce that Bernard Labadie will assume the music directorship of the orchestra starting in the 2026-2027 season, thereby ensuring the ensemble’s artistic continuity while guiding the organization in recruiting his eventual successor. This decision comes at an important transitional period for the orchestra, as the tenure of Jonathan Cohen, who has led the ensemble since the 2018-2019 season, concluded at the end of June 2025. An iconic figure of Les Violons du Roy, which he founded in 1984, Bernard Labadie shaped the orchestra’s artistic identity…

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Review | Honens Finals: The Quintets and the Concerti

By Viktor Lazarov on 28 October 2025 Music Competition, Orchestral, Piano, Strings, West

Disclosure: this article was published without the author’s knowledge of final results. Finals I: October 23, 2025 The first finals round of the Honens International Piano Competition featured all three finalists performing Franck, Brahms, and Dvořák piano quintets with the Isidore String Quartet. The New York City-based ensemble are recipients of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant and winners of the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022. A seemingly promising match of youth, talent, and ambition with each competing pianist. Yet this pairing conceals a more complicated reality: the Isidore Quartet contributes to each candidate’s evaluation in their final…

Photo: Brent Calis

Mécénat Musica | Jaap Nico Hamburger: Composer-in-residence

By Wah Keung Chan on 28 October 2025 Arts Industry, Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Contemporary, Opera, Orchestral

Scores and notes of Mécénat Musica Composer-in-Residence and Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes composers and librettists are offered to emerging Quebec and Canadian artists royalty-free, forever! Juno-nominated Jaap Nico Hamburger has composed or is composing 112 movements of Mécénat Musica Compositions featuring symphonies, concertos, chamber music, oratorios, and opera, including multiple recordings with the Orchestre Métropolitain, Ensemble Caprice, Ensemble ArtChoral, the Residentie Orkest (Netherlands) and the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra. “The music just comes to me. I just write down what I hear,” says Hamburger. Only seven years after leaving a full-time career as a cardiologist to devote his life to…

Bruce Liu with the TSO conducted by Franz Welser-Möst at Roy Thomson Hall. Photo: Allan Cabral

Review | Young Pianist Outclasses Seasoned Conductor at TSO

By Michelle Assay on 21 October 2025 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Orchestral, Piano, Toronto

Here was a ghost of Christmas Future for the finalists of the International Chopin Competition currently battling it out in Warsaw. Since his victory at the 2021 Competition, the Paris-born Canadian Bruce Liu has been conquering some of the most prestigious stages of the world—including a BBC Proms appearance this summer. And for 2025-26 he adds the feather of TSO Spotlight Artist to his cap. For his first concert of the new season, Liu chose a Mozart concerto rather than a virtuoso blockbuster. That comes as little surprise. Chopin’s well-known love of Mozart is one connection. Also, since his Chopin…

Newswire | Opera’s Greatest Moments: Edmonton Opera & ESO Together for Bravi!

By Newswire on 14 October 2025 Newswire, Opera, Orchestral, West

Edmonton, AB – [September 29, 2025] – Edmonton Opera is thrilled to launch its 2025/26 season with Bravi! Opera’s Greatest Hits, a celebration of the world’s most beloved opera music, presented in partnership with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) at the Winspear Centre. This dazzling staged concert brings together the power of two of Edmonton’s leading arts organizations to present an evening of timeless arias, duets, and ensembles, along with marvelous orchestral moments. Bravi! is a testament to the enduring love audiences have for music and the strength of collaboration in Edmonton’s cultural community. Guiding the evening will be William…

Newswire | National Arts Centre Orchestra Opens Applications for Resident Conductor and Mentorship Programs

By Newswire on 7 October 2025 Arts Industry, Music Competition, Newswire, Orchestral, Ottawa

Ottawa, Oct. 6, 2025 — Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) announces a call for applications for its Resident Conductor and Mentorship programs. These flagship professional development initiatives offer participants the opportunity to hone their skills under the guidance of musicians and administrators from one of North America’s leading orchestras. The call for applications for Resident Conductor – a two-year appointment for an early-career conductor who is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, beginning in the 2026-7 season–opens October 6 and closes November 17. The window for applications for the Mentorship Program, designed for emerging and early – career instrumentalists,…

Jonathan Crow with the TSO conducted by Peter Oundjian. Photo: Allan Cabral/Courtesy of the TSO

Review | Intimacy and Mischief: Oundjian & TSO Reunite in Elgar’s Enigma Variations

By Michelle Assay on 6 October 2025 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Orchestral, Toronto

What is the ideal duration for a concert opener? For TSO’s Conductor Emeritus Peter Oundjian, the answer would seem to be 12 minutes, give or take. That’s the duration of his “sampling” of Joan Tower’s 1991 Concerto for Orchestra, to use the composer’s less than glowing endorsement. A distilled version of a longer work is nothing new in itself, as Oundjian himself pointed out in his notes, using Prokofiev and Stravinsky’s ballet suites as examples. But in the case of Tower, the original work is just 28 minutes long, and as charming as the onstage chat between conductor and composer…

L’Orchestre symphonique de Laval: Forty years of music

By Benjamin Goron on 5 October 2025 Orchestral

The 2025–26 season marks a major turning point for Orchestre symphonique de Laval. Not only is the ensemble celebrating its 40th anniversary, but it is also inaugurating a new artistic direction under the baton of Adam Johnson and a new general management led by Daphné Bisson. This double change at the helm promises to revitalize the orchestra, strengthen its ties with the community and broaden the impact of its concerts. Johnson will be on the podium to start the season on Oct. 29 at Salle André-Mathieu, for Celebration: 40 Years of History and Future at the OSL. The concert will…

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