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Vocal Arts Festival: the World’s Best Young Singers are in Town!

By Newswire on 5 June 2017 Education, Newswire, Opera

Montreal, June 5 2017 – Presented by the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute (CVAI), the 14th edition of the Montreal Vocal Arts Festival offers you a privileged access to some of the most promising young singers around and world renowned teachers. No less than 44 young opera singers (35 women and 9 men) will be heard: 17 from Canada, 11 from the United States, 5 from Mexico, 4 from France, 2 from Taiwan and one each from China, Colombia, Russia, Serbia and South Korea. Each of them will perform in public and perfect his craft under the tutelage of artists and teachers from…

Russell Braun, Photo: Johannes Ifkovits

Canadian Opera Legend Russell Braun Joins Faculty of NAC’s Young Artist Program June 5-24

By Newswire on 5 June 2017 Education, Newswire, Opera

June 5, 2017 (Ottawa) – From June 5-24, 2017, 64 talented young musicians from all around the world will embark on a three-week coaching and mentorship program during the 19th edition of the National Arts Centre’s Young Artists Program (YAP). This year, renowned Canadian baritone Russell Braun, joins the all-star faculty, at the helm of its rigorous vocal program. Founded in 1999, by NAC Conductor Emeritus Pinchas Zukerman, the YAP features outstanding private instruction, chamber music coaching with additional career-related sessions and mentoring. This instruction includes performance opportunities such as public chamber music concerts, public master classes, closed works-in-progress sessions…

Victor Julien-Laferrière Wins the First Queen Elisabeth Cello Competititon

By Newswire on 5 June 2017 Newswire, Strings

Victor Julien-Laferrière has won the 2017 Queen Elisabeth cello competition! The winner of the International Queen Elisabeth Grand Prize – Queen Mathilde Prize receives 25.000 EUR and numerous concerts in Belgium and abroad. The prizewinners First Prize : Victor Julien-Laferrière Second Prize : Yuya Okamoto Third Prize : Santiago Cañón-Valencia Fourth Prize : Aurélien Pascal Fifth Prize : Ivan Karizna Sixth Prize : Brannon Cho The six unranked laureates, in alphabetical order : Sihao He, Seungmin Kang, Maciej Kulakowski, JeongHyoun Christine Lee, Yan Levionnois and Bruno Philippe. An overview of the prizes is presented on the competition’s website in the Cello 2017 menu. Ivan Karizna has won both prizes of the public (Prix Musiq’3 and Canvas-Klaraprijs).…

Lebrecht Weekly – Ravel/De Falla: Piano Concertos (Hyperion)

By Norman Lebrecht on 2 June 2017 CD and Book Reviews, Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly, Piano

Never forget that Maurice Ravel was more Basque than French. His rhythms and harmonies belong to the borderlands. He is happiest with the smell of Rioja in his nostrils. There must be other pianists who have paired Ravel’s two piano concertos on record with De Falla’s Nights in the Garden of Spain, but I can’t call any recent releases to mind. Or maybe Steven Osborne’s account is just so thrilling that it has erased them from memory. There is never a moment in this performance when you doubt the absolute rightness of his choices. In the Ravel G major, Osborne…

Danny Michel

Ottawa Chamberfest: Roman Borys talks Canadian Content and Funding

By Rebecca Anne Clark on 1 June 2017 Canadian Music, Classical Music, Popular Music

Running July 22 to August 4, the Ottawa Chamberfest is bound to please with featured guests Miró Quartet, Rolston String Quartet, Cinquecento, Stephen Hough, Julian Rachlin, and the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge – returning to Ottawa for the first time in 20 years. La Scena Musicale asked Roman Borys, artistic Director of the Ottawa Chamber Music Society and founding cellist of the Gryphon Trio about this year’s Chamberfest, Canada 150, and the state of the arts in Canada. “Chamberfest 2017 is a true celebration of chamber music,” says Borys. “We want to show both local residents and newcomers the…

Anthony Roth Costanzo

Festival d’Opéra de Québec: 2017 edition

By Orphée Russell on 1 June 2017 Canadian Music, Classical Music, Opera

This year’s Festival d’Opéra de Québec takes place from July 24 to August 5 in Quebec City. Now in its seventh year, the festival has garnered significant recognition, including at the 2012 Opus Awards, were it received prizes for Concert of the Year, Musical Event of the Year, and Artistic Director of the Year. This summer’s edition will kick off with the Opera Under the Stars Gala, a large, open-air event set against the historic backdrop of the courtyard of the Vieux-Séminaire de Québec and featuring eight singers. Headlining the festival is Louis Riel, an opera about the controversial Métis…

First Episodic Made-for-TV & Online Opera “VIREO: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser”

By Newswire on 1 June 2017 Newswire, Opera, Scena Arts

Burbank, CA – May 31, 2017 – Today, KCETLink Media Group – a leading national independent non-profit public broadcast and digital network – releases all 12 of the approximately 15-minute episodes of made-for-TV and online opera “VIREO: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser,” composed and conceived by Lisa Bielawa, at once for free, on-demand streaming at KCET.org/Vireo and LinkTV.org/Vireo, and on Apple TV and Roku. VIREO will make its world broadcast television premiere on Tuesday, June 13 at 8pm ET/PT on both KCET in Southern California and Link TV (DirecTV375 and Dish Network 9410) nationwide. Produced in partnership with Cal State Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center (GCAC), the two-and-a-half-hour broadcast will be a special edition…

Toronto Summer Music Festival 2017

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 June 2017 Canadian Music, Classical Music

This season marks the first edition of the Toronto Summer Music Festival with TSO Concertmaster Jonathan Crow at the helm as Artistic Director. The festival, which runs over three weeks from July 13 to August 5, features some of the best music and musicians this country has to offer. The opening concert on July 13 at 7:30PM, Koerner Hall, has the St. Lawrence String Quartet in a program of Haydn, Beethoven, and R. Murray Schafer. This is followed by violinist Martin Beaver and friends (July 14) and James Ehnes in a solo violin recital of Bach, Ysaÿe, and the world…

Sir Andrew Davis, Photo: Jamie Hogge

Sir Andrew Davis to Provide Interim Artistic Leadership During TSO Music Director Search

By Newswire on 1 June 2017 Newswire, Orchestral

May 31, 2017: The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) announces today that Sir Andrew Davis will act as Interim Artistic Director for two seasons following the conclusion of Peter Oundjian’s 14-year tenure as Music Director at the end of the 2017/18 season. Maestro Davis will provide artistic leadership through to the middle of 2020, when the TSO anticipates that a new permanent Music Director will be in place. Gary Hanson, Interim Chief Executive Officer of the TSO, comments, “As our Music Director Search Committee completes its work, we are grateful that Sir Andrew will step in to provide artistic leadership, just as he did in…

Barbara Croall plays the pipigwan

Wiikondiwin in the Haliburton Highlands

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 June 2017 Canadian Music, Opera

Wiikondiwin, meaning feasting or feast, is the title of Odawa composer Barbara Croall’s latest project, a commission by the Highlands Opera Studio in partnership with the Atelier Lyrique de L’Opera de Montreal. Valerie Kuinka, general director of the Highlands Opera Studio, approached Croall a number of years ago about the possibility of commissioning an opera. With funding from Canadian Heritage and the Canada Council for the Arts: New Chapter associated with Canada’s Sesquicentennial, this year was an opportune time to pursue the project. It will be presented for the first time this August in a semi-staged performance. There is a…

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