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Benefit Concert for the Kidney Foundation of Canada by the Orchestre Métropolitain with Marie-Josée Lord

By Newswire on 12 October 2016 Newswire, Orchestral, Vocal

A concert by the Orchestre Métropolitain, featuring Marie-Josée Lord, in support of people living with kidney disease Montreal, October 12, 2016 – The New Lease on Life benefit event for The Kidney Foundation of Canada is set to take place on November 11, 2016, at La Maison Symphonique. This special concert will be the event’s second edition. The benefit event will help a good cause, the fight to beat kidney disease, which currently affects over 550,000 people in Quebec. The concert’s artistic theme will include symphonic works ranging from Carmen to West Side Story and will be accompanied by the…

Conductor Jonathan Cohen named Music Director of Les Violons du Roy

By Newswire on 12 October 2016 Newswire, Orchestral

Conductor Jonathan Cohen named music director of Les Violons du Roy Quebec City, October 6, 2016 – The management and musicians of Les Violons du Roy orchestra today announced the appointment of renowned British conductor Jonathan Cohen to the position of music director. Known as a brilliant conductor as well as a harpsichordist and cellist, Jonathan Cohen will assume his new role in the 2018–2019 season and continue until 2021. In the interim, he will be very active with the orchestra and will begin serving as designated music director in February 2017, with a concert performed by Les Violons du…

Anna Netrebko © KirkEdwards

The Ultimate Opera Gala Starring Anna Netrebko in Toronto

By Newswire on 12 October 2016 Newswire, Opera, Toronto

Show One Productions In Collaboration With The Canadian Opera Company PROUDLY PRESENTS TRIO MAGNIFICO The Ultimate Opera Gala STARRING ANNA NETREBKO, soprano Ÿ YUSIF EYVAZOV, tenor DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY, baritone World Premiere Appearance of Magnificent Trio of Opera Stars! JADER BIGNAMINI, conductor Ÿ CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY ORCHESTRA TUESDAY, APRIL 25 AT 7:30PM Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto ON SALE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 AT 10:00 AM Toronto, October 11, 2016 … Svetlana Dvoretsky of Show One Productions in collaboration with the Canadian Opera Company, Alexander Neef, General Director, is proud to present the world premiere appearance of a trio of today’s most remarkable opera…

James Ehnes with his accompanist Andrew Armstrong, Photo: Ben Ealovega

This Week in Montreal (October 11-16)

By Nicole Yeba on 11 October 2016 Classical Music, This Week in Montreal

I Musici – Two Masterpieces Jean-Marie Zeitouni and his I Musici Chamber Orchestra invite us to meditate with Mahler’s sublime Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), a “symphony for two voices and orchestra.” The six lieder are interpreted by soprano Michèle Losier and tenor Richard Cox. The program is completed with Beethoven’s Sixteenth Quartet, his final work (Oct. 12, 8PM, Salle Bourgie). www.imusici.com Violons du Roy – Marwood Conductor and violinist Anthony Marwood will lead the Violins du Roy in their first concert of the season, entitled Les caprices de la nuit. The concert continues the…

ASO/Peter Bay: Rousing Argentinian “Rodeo” Outshines Urioste’s Beautiful but Bland Beethoven

By Paul E. Robinson on 9 October 2016 Classical, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Orchestral, Violin

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Beethoven: Violin Concerto; Kodály: Marosszék Dances; Ginastera: Four Dances from Estancia Op. 8a; Elena Urioste, violin; Austin Symphony Orchestra/Peter Bay, conductor; Long Center, Austin, TX. Austin’s SXSW (South by Southwest), an annual March extravaganza of music and technology, attracts interest from all over the world. Equally popular is the ACL Music Festival – a spinoff from the television series, Austin City Limits – which draws huge crowds to Zilker Park, the attractive area by Lady Bird Lake near downtown. This year’s ACL got underway at the same time the Austin Symphony (ASO) was presenting its weekend concerts at…

Lebrecht Weekly – Arnold Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder (Chandos)

By Norman Lebrecht on 7 October 2016 Art Song, Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly, Orchestral

It is so rare to hear the Gurre Lieder live that most of us are acquainted with it only on record – in memorable interpretations by Rafael Kubelik, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Claudio Abbado and others. The work employs a vast orchestra and chorus for an unbroken duration of ninety minutes, much of which occupies a zone of uncertainty as to whether what we are hearing is ancient or modern. Schoenberg began composing the cycle in Wagnerian modalities in 1900, abandoned it three years later, finished it in 1911 as a provocative atonalist, and achieved the greatest triumph of his…

Review – J.S. Bach: Six Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard (Marquis)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 October 2016 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews

J.S. Bach: Six Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard Duo Concertante; Nancy Dahn, violin; Timothy Steeves, piano Marquis 2016. MAR 81521. 2 CDs. 92 min 42 s. Composed between 1714 and 1723, J.S. Bach’s six Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard are surprisingly sentimental and intimate, especially given the elaborate stretches of imitation expected from the master as well as the precedent for our understanding of Bach’s treatment of the violin from his Six Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas. Partners in life as well as in music, violinist Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves have upped the ante from their recording of…

Joshua Peters

Rising Stars – Joshua Peters: Golden Violin Competition

By An-Laurence Higgins on 1 October 2016 La Scena Spotlight, Violin

The McGill Schulich School of Music Golden Violin Competition is a yearly prestigious competition made possible by the generous donation of businessman and philanthropist, the school’s namesake, Mr. Seymour Schulich. In 2015, Joshua Peters won the First Prize. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Peters began playing violin at the early age of four. As he grew up, he moved around the continent to study with Axel Strauss at McGill, and with Jonathan Crow, Denise Lupien, and Ian Swensen at the San Francisco Conservatory. Peters’s main interests are chamber and contemporary music. He had the opportunity to collaborate with many renowned artists,…

Ayana Tsuji, CMIM

Rising Stars – Ayana Tsuji: Concours musical international de montréal (CMIM)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 October 2016 La Scena Spotlight, Violin

The 2016 Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM), and the 5th violin competition, came to a definitive conclusion in front of a sizeable live and webcast audience on Thursday, June 2 at the Maison Symphonique. For the first time in the competition’s fifteen-year history, the competitors learned the results at the same time as the audience, holding everyone in breathless suspense up until the top-three winners picked up their violins to perform their concertos one final time with the OSM under guest conductor Giancarlo Guerrero. Eighteen-year-old Japanese wunderkind Ayana Tsuji emerged as the unprecedented winner, gaining the jury’s favour for…

Scott MacIsaac

Rising Stars – Scott MacIsaac: OSM Manulife Competition

By An-Laurence Higgins on 1 October 2016 La Scena Spotlight, Piano

The winner of the 2015 edition of the OSM Manulife competition was the young Scott MacIsaac. Born in 1992 in Alberta, MacIsaac is a promising pianist whose musicality and technique have been praised both nationally and internationally. He started playing piano at 6 years old and has studied with fellow Albertan Marilyn Engle since 2007. MacIsaac got his Certificate in performance from Yale University in 2014, where he studied with Boris Berman and Peter Frankl. He is currently completing his Bachelor in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Ronan O’Hora. MacIsaac is no stranger to the…

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