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Ensemble Made in Canada

By Justin Bernard on 1 February 2019 Chamber Music, Contemporary

Co-founded in 2006 by violist Sharon Wei and pianist Angela Park, the Ensemble Made In Canada includes Elissa Lee (violin) and Rachel Mercer (cello). It is now one of Canada’s leading piano quartets and will be performing at the Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques Festival on Feb. 25 as part of a national tour. For its new Mosaïque Project, EMIC commissioned each of 14 Canadians to write a four-minute piano quartet inspired by a particular region of Canada. Among the composers are Nicolas Gilbert (Quebec), Julie Doiron (New Brunswick), Kevin Lau (Yukon Territory), Nicole Lizée (Saskatchewan), Richard Mascall (Ontario), Samy Moussa (Nunavut) and…

The Problem of Modern Music

By Arthur Kaptainis on 1 February 2019 Contemporary

“Only madmen invent entirely new languages,” wrote the Viennese-born British critic Hans Keller in a 1961 essay for The Musical Times bearing the same title that adorns this column. The comment puts me in mind of Walter Boudreau’s Concerto de l’asile, one of the more substantial Canadian contemporary pieces of recent years to reach a nonspecialist public, by which I mean OSM subscribers in the Maison symphonique, who heard the premiere in January 2013 with Alain Lefèvre at the piano and Ludovic Morlot on the podium. There were performances also last year by the National Arts Centre Orchestra under Alexander…

Samy Moussa, Citizen of the World

By Arthur Kaptainis on 1 February 2019 Contemporary

Samy Moussa was calling from the Villa Massimo, the spacious former estate of an aristocratic family in Rome, where he has lodgings as a fellow of the Accademia Tedesca or the Deutsche Akademie, depending on your language of choice. “A place where you can work, meet people, and be inspired,” he calls it. “I try to be here as much as I can.” No wonder. But multiple commitments draw the Montreal-born composer away from this outpost of German culture in the Eternal City, notably to Berlin, where he has lived for seven years. “I know you wrote a couple of…

Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen returns to the Met, March 9–May 11, 2019

By Newswire on 31 January 2019 Newswire, Opera

New York, NY (January 29, 2019)—The Metropolitan Opera will present Richard Wagner’s four-part masterwork Der Ring des Nibelungen in performances March 9–May 11, 2019. This season’s performances are the first time the Met has presented the inventive Robert Lepage staging in six seasons and are the only complete Ring cycles to be presented in North America in 2019. Marshaling the vast forces on stage and in the pit is the incoming music director of the Vienna State Opera, Philippe Jordan, who has conducted acclaimed Ring cycles in Paris and Zurich. The cast includes many of today’s preeminent Wagnerian singers,…

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The Orchestre Métropolitain Announces U.S. Tour in November 2019

By Newswire on 31 January 2019 Classical Music, Newswire

MONTREAL, Jan. 30, 2019 /CNW Telbec/ – The Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal is pleased to announce an upcoming tour with its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The tour will take place in the United States from November 18 to 25, 2019, and give the Montreal conductor a first opportunity to present his Quebec orchestra to audiences in the cities of Chicago, Ann Arbor, New York and Philadelphia. Also joining the Orchestre on the tour will be one of the world’s most acclaimed vocal artists, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. The famous American singer will perform two pieces by Mozart, the concert…

Mozart: Symphonies 40 and 41 (Pentatone)

By Norman Lebrecht on 26 January 2019 CD and Book Reviews, Classical Music, Lebrecht Weekly

The conductor Hans von Bülow once described Mendelssohn’s music as ‘something to be got over in childhood, like measles’. I feel the same way about much of Mozart and listen to very little, making an exception now and then only when I have a particular purpose to study a piece – in this case, the Jupiter Symphony, Mozart’s last. It so happened that a Pentatone CD with the NDR Radiophilharmonie landed just as I was reaching up the shelf for the unassailable Abbado/LSO on DG and its arrival proved more than just instructive. The Hannover radio orchestra, not always the…

Le quatrième concert-bénéfice pour la Syrie | 2019 | The Fourth Benefit Concert for Syria

By Newswire on 23 January 2019 Classical Music, Newswire

English below Le Centre culturel syrien présente le quatrième concert-bénéfice par l’Orchestre I Medici di McGill afin de venir en aide aux personnes syriennes déplacées à l’intérieur de leur propre pays (PDIP) et les réfugiés syriens à Montréal. Joignez-vous à nous le 17 février 2019 pour un concert unique de l’Orchestre I Medici di McGill (« les médecins de McGill ») sous la direction musicale du Maestro Gilles Auger. En vedette Jonathan Oldengarm a l’orgue. Les profits des ventes des billets seront versés à nos deux partenaires : . CJI un organisme de bienfaisance qui ouvre en Syrie . École…

Competitors for the 2019 CMIM Violin edition revealed

By Newswire on 22 January 2019 Classical Music, Newswire, Violin

Montréal, January 22, 2019 — 24 of the world’s most promising young violinists—15 women and 9 men between the ages of 16 and 28, from 13 nations—have been selected to participate in the CMIM (Concours musical international de Montréal) running from May 29 to June 5, 2019. The United States leads the selection with seven violinists, followed by Japan and South Korea with 5 violinists each. Germany is represented by two competitors and the following nations are each represented by one competitor: Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Latvia, Russia, Spain, Taiwan and Ukraine. The 24 competitors will vie for over…

OSM – Additional Performance of Mozart’s Requiem Friday, April 19, 2019

By Newswire on 21 January 2019 Classical Music, Newswire

Montreal, January 21, 2019 — The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal is pleased to announce it will be adding a third performance to its programme, on Friday, April 19 at 8 p.m., of the much-awaited concert titled The Mozart Requiem, under the direction of Hervé Niquet. This supplementary concert will be presented in addition to performances scheduled for April 16 and 18, which are almost sold out. These concerts are part of the series Encounters with Mozart, during which the OSM will present a selection of the great Austrian composer’s masterpieces in the course of three different concert programmes directed by…

Metropolitan Opera: Free Tickets for Furloughed Federal Workers

By Newswire on 18 January 2019 Newswire, Opera

New York, NY (January 18, 2019) – The Metropolitan Opera announced today that it will offer free tickets for each of its productions to federal government employees affected by the ongoing government shutdown. The offer will be available for all performances from tomorrow, January 19, through January 31, 2019 (excluding the matinee of January 26). Those eligible can reserve a pair of tickets per person per performance, subject to availability, on the day of each show by telephone (212-362-6000) or in person at the Met box office. A valid government ID must be presented when collecting tickets. Quantities are limited. …

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