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Esprit Orchestra: Keeping audiences on the edge of their seats

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2024 November / December / January 2025

Esprit Orchestra’s 2024-25 season is titled “The Edge of Your Seat”—but that could well describe their entire ethos. Established in 1983 by Music Director and Conductor Alex Pauk, the 65-member orchestra is one of the few organizations of its kind on a global scale. It is Canada’s only professional, full-sized orchestra dedicated to the promotion and performance of new orchestral music. Its new season comprises two Prelude Concerts at Toronto’s Koerner Hall in November and February as well as an International Festival made up of five concerts, kicking off in March and taking place at both Koerner Hall and Trinity…

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TSO Delights with Romantic Bruch & Rachmaninoff

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By on Concert Reviews, Orchestral, Toronto

Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Oct. 24th program featured two beloved Romantic works: Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G major, and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 in E minor, with Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda (Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC) at the helm. As with most TSO concerts, the evening opened with and introduced audiences to a rarely performed modern piece. Goffredo Petrassi’s Concerto for Orchestra No. 2 is one of six concerti for orchestra the TSO is spotlighting this season. Petrassi, a highly regarded composer, conductor and teacher in his home country of Italy, is…

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Alex pauk avec Esprit Orchestra. Photo : Karen reeves

Esprit Orchestra: Keeping audiences on the edge of their seats

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October 2024

Esprit Orchestra’s 2024-25 season is titled “The Edge of Your Seat”—but that could well describe their entire ethos. Established in 1983 by Music Director and Conductor Alex Pauk, the 65-member orchestra is one of the few organizations of its kind on a global scale. It is Canada’s only professional, full-sized orchestra dedicated to the promotion and performance of new orchestral music. Its new season comprises two Prelude Concerts at Toronto’s Koerner Hall in November and February as well as an International Festival made up of five concerts, kicking off in March and taking place at both Koerner Hall and Trinity…

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Naomi Woo conducting the National Youth Orchestra at Koerner Hall. Photo : Dahlia Katz

Naomi Woo: NYOC’s Leader Says Authenticity is the Key

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By on Orchestral
October 2024

“One of the most exciting things about being a musician is the necessity of life-long learning,” Naomi Woo says over a video call. These are not just aspirational words. Woo practises what she preaches. As an emerging music director and conductor, she continues to be both a student and a teacher. Next year, Woo will continue to nurture young talent in her role as Music Director for the National Youth Orchestra for a second year, after leading them in their successful Horizons tour across Canada in the summer of 2024. Presently, Woo is being mentored by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the renowned…

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Photo : Dahlia Katz

Tafelmusik’s Rachel Podger: Communication is Key

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By on Orchestral
October 2024

Adjusting to life in a new position in a new country comes with a unique set of challenges. Rachel Podger has approached the task with a combination of communication, collaboration, and curiosity. The award-winning British-born musician was named Principal Guest Director of famed classical ensemble Tafelmusik in April 2023; she formally launched the 2024-25 season in her new capacity in Toronto last month, with an all-Mozart program. “Musically, they are so incredibly responsive—I just love the energy in the group!” Podger first worked with Tafelmusik in May 2012. As well as being the founder and artistic director of the Brecon…

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Bells Will Ring at Maison Symphonique for the Grand Premiere of OSM

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By on Newswire, Orchestral

Montreal, September 17, 2024 – Tomorrow evening, two carillon bells in G and C especially cast for the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM), will officially join the Orchestra’s instrumental forces. The bells will peal for the first time within the walls of the Maison symphonique during the OSM’s performance of Hector Berlioz’s daring Symphonie fantastique, as well as in its World Premiere of an OSM commission La Chapelle to composer Michael Oesterle. These works will be conducted by Rafael Payare in three performances on September 18 and 19. The bells will also travel with the OSM for the Orchestra’s European tour…

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CD Review | Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Mahler: Rückert Lieder

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By on CD and Book Reviews, Classical Music, Orchestral, Vocal
September 2024

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Mahler: Rückert Lieder Sonya Yoncheva, soprano; Orchestre symphonique de Montréal; Rafael Payare, conductor Pentatone, 2024 Following their successful release last year on the Pentatone label of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony comes this new disc, by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal under the felicitous baton of its music director, Rafael Payare. The forces are back with more Mahler—this time, the sublimely introspective Rückert Lieder (1901-02)—paired with the grand Ein Heldenleben (1898) by Richard Strauss.  Pentatone’s press release points out the rather unusual, if not perplexing, pairing of an exuberant Strauss tone poem with an inwardly radiant and spiritual Mahler…

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Antoine Bareil and the OSL Explore the Mendelssohns

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By on City, Montreal, Orchestral
September 2024

Since its founding in 1984, Orchestre symphonique de Laval (OSL) has brilliantly established itself in the musical landscape of Greater Montreal. On the eve of its 40th anniversary, the orchestra will open its new season with Encounter: Antoine Bareil plays Mendelssohn, an evening under the direction of conductor Adam Johnson featuring Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor (1844), Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) by Modest Mussorgsky, and the Overture in C major (1832) by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. A grandiose program combining the enchanting expressiveness of German Romanticism with the raw lyricism of the Russian tradition. A family story Felix…

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Goosby Gimeo TSO Bartók
Randall Goosby and Gustavo Gimeno. Photo: Allan Cabral/TSO

Concert Review | Invigorating Bartók in a disconnected TSO program

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By on City, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, La Scena Online, Orchestral, Toronto

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s (TSO) eclectic June 6 program pulled together a disparate selection of works by Canadian, German, Hungarian and Austrian composers ranging over four centuries. If it was difficult to ascertain a dramaturgical connection between them, individually, they each had something to offer. TSO CAMH Art of Healing To start, TSO CEO Mark Williams took the stage alongside President & CEO of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Sarah Downey to speak about their Art of Healing program, in collaboration with Shkaabe Makwa—the Centre for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Wellness. Art of Healing brings together…

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