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Newswire | Club musical de Québec Unveiling the 2026-2027 season

By Newswire on 18 March 2026 Chamber Music, Classical, Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Quebec City

Québec City, March 17, 2026 – A concert suspends time… just long enough for borders to disappear, for globetrotting performers to make a stop in Québec, for the pace of life to slow, and for audiences and musicians to share a moment together. This is your chance to appreciate the outstanding artistic personalities and the wealth of repertoire that the Club musical de Québec is proud to present for its 135th season. One of the jewels in the city’s crown, the Club offers outstanding musical experiences that bring people together in events that are worthy of the world’s greatest cities…

Left to right: Diana Damrau, Emily D'Angelo, Erin Morley, Peter Rose, Thomas Ebenstein, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Photos: Jiyang Chen, Mark Pillai, Jamie Fisher, Paul Cochrane, Julia Wesely, Vladim Vilain

Newswire | Orchestre Métropolitain and Opéra de Montréal Officialize Artistic Partnership

By Newswire on 18 March 2026 Arts Industry, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Montreal, Newswire, Opera, Orchestral

Montreal, Wednesday, March 18, 2026 – Orchestre Métropolitain (OM) and Opéra de Montréal (OdM) are proud to announce the official launch of their artistic partnership, sealing a long-standing relationship between two leading institutions in Montreal’s and Canada’s cultural life. Developed over more than twenty years of collaboration, this relationship now enters a new, structuring phase, with a shared commitment to strengthening artistic, human, and institutional ties between the two organizations. “The collaboration between Orchestre Métropolitain and Opéra de Montréal is rooted in shared values: openness, innovation, and respect. We share the conviction that by building on our respective strengths, we can…

Jean-Philippe Sylvestre with Orchestre Classique de Montréal. Photo: Tam Photography

Review | Polish Gems with Orchestre Classique de Montréal

By Amanda Wong on 17 March 2026 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Montreal, Orchestral, Piano, Vocal, Winds

On an unassuming night in the seclusion of Montreal’s Salle Pierre-Mercure, Orchestre Classique de Montréal (OCM) welcomed three unique soloists to perform a stylistically diverse program, unified under a theme of Polish music. Under the direction of OCM’s music director Andrei Feher, soprano Karoline Podolak, clarinettist Kornel Wolak (both Polish), and local pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre presented pieces by Frédéric Chopin (to no one’s surprise given the theme), Stanisław Moniuszko and Mieczysław Weinberg, as well as more contemporary pieces including works by Wojciech Kilar. The OCM, this time, was just a small group of string-only players. Sylvestre and Wolak kicked off…

Demetrious Sampson Jr. and Alissa Goretsky, Photo: Lynn Lane

Newswire | HGO streams Of Mice and Men

By Newswire on 12 March 2026 Classical Music, Newswire, Opera, Orchestral

WHAT: On Mar. 15, 2026 at 2:30 p.m., Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will share the company’s new production of Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men via its YouTube and Facebook channels. The livestream of the matinee performance at the Wortham Theater Center’s Cullen Theater will provide online audiences with the opportunity to experience the classic opera featuring a cast comprised entirely of rising artists from the company’s Sarah and Ernest Butler Houston Grand Opera Studio program. For audiences who wish to attend Of Mice and Men in person, tickets to both performances—on Friday, Mar. 13 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Mar. 15 at 2:30 p.m.—are…

Paavo Järvi, Photo: Alberto Venzago

Newswire | Paavo Järvi to Lead London Philharmonic From 2028

By Newswire on 9 March 2026 Arts Industry, Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral

March 2026 — Grammy-winning Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi has been appointed Chief Conductor & Artistic Advisor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), succeeding current Principal Conductor Edward Gardner at the start of the 2028–29 season. With an initial five-year contract, Järvi will be responsible for directing the orchestra’s centennial celebrations in 2032. Järvi is as renowned for his compelling interpretations of the symphonic repertoire as for his advocacy of new music. He currently serves as Music Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and as the founder and Artistic Director of the Estonian Festival Orchestra.…

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Newswire | Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Announces 2026-27 Season

By Newswire on 4 March 2026 Chamber Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Vancouver, West

[Vancouver, B.C.] — The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) is thrilled to announce its 2026/27 season of concerts. Audiences can look forward to hearing some of the world’s greatest soloists join Music Director Otto Tausk and Vancouver’s very own Grammy- and Juno Award-winning symphony orchestra. “In spring 2026, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra travels to Europe, proudly representing our city on the international stage while carrying the spirit of our audiences with us,” says VSO Music Director Otto Tausk. “Experiences like this remind me that music connects people across borders just as powerfully as it does within a concert hall. The musicians of…

The 66 selected candidates for the 2026 Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition. Photo: Queen Elisabeth Competition

Newswire | Four Canadians selected for 2026 Queen Elisabeth Competition

By Newswire on 3 March 2026 Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Strings

Brussels – Applications for the third cello edition of the Queen Elisabeth Competition closed on Wednesday 26 November 2025. A total of 185 cellists, aged between 18 and 30, applied to take part in the 2026 session (nearly 20% more than the previous edition in 2022). Canadian Participants The following Canadian candidates are taking part in the Cello edition:Andrew Ilhoon Byun, Michael Song, Romain-Olivier Gray and Leland Ko. For the preselection stage, candidates were required to submit video recordings of a demanding programme including one of the Six Études for cello and piano, opus postumus by François Servais, Variations concertantes op. 17…

Newswire | Azrieli Music Prizes: New Jewish Music, Vol. 5, Out February 27

By Newswire on 27 February 2026 Choral, Classical Music, Music Competition, Newswire, Orchestral, Vocal

The Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP), the top music composition competition in Canada, returns with its fifth album for Analekta. Available February 27, 2026, New Jewish Music, Vol. 5 features the world‑premiere recordings of the 2024 Azrieli Music Prize–winning works by Jordan Nobles (Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music), Josef Bardanashvili (Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music), Yair Klartag (Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music), and Juan Trigos (Azrieli Commission for International Music). All four works are performed by members of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and the OSM Chorus, conducted by Andrew Megill. The album will also be available in stereo and Dolby Atmos formats. Opening the album is kanata, an a cappella choral work in which Jordan Nobles uses…

NACO conductor Alexander Shelley in performance. Photo: Curtis Perry.

Newswire | Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra Announces 100th Tour

By Newswire on 24 February 2026 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Ottawa

February 24, 2026 – OTTAWA (Canada) – Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) is thrilled to announce its 100th tour since its founding in 1969. This spring, the Orchestra, led by Music Director Alexander Shelley, will visit Canada’s East Coast, with performances in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Joining NACO and Shelley as a special guest throughout the tour is acclaimed Wolastoqiyik composer and singer-songwriter Jeremy Dutcher—a two-time Polaris Music Prize winner and the 2025 recipient of the NAC Award at the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards. NACO’s collaboration with Dutcher, a member of the Tobique First Nation in northern New Brunswick, will feature a…

Tabea Zimmermann with Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Photo: Simon Pauly

Review | Konzerthausorchester’s “Unfinished” Evening with Tabea Zimmermann in Berlin

By Gianmarco Segato on 23 February 2026 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Opera, Orchestral

The second concert in Konzerthausorchester Berlin’s “Vom Anfangen” (“On Beginnings”) festival featured works that could be described as unfinished in different ways. This superbly-curated evening brought together Schubert, Bartók, Kurtág and Puccini—strange bedfellows perhaps—in a program of stimulating connections (seen Feb. 20). As detailed in the program notes, György Kurtág (currently celebrating his 100th birthday) cites Schubert as his inspiration to compose, and for his ideal of musical beauty. In that light, the orchestra, under their chief conductor Joana Mallwitz, began with Schubert’s two-movement “Unfinished” symphony of 1822. There is much debate as to whether this work was truly unfinished,…

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