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Review – Charles Richard-Hamelin: Beethoven, Enescu, Chopin (Analekta)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 October 2016 CD and Book Reviews, Classical, Piano, Romantic

Charles Richard-Hamelin: Beethoven, Enescu, Chopin Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano Analekta 2016. AN2 9129. 68 min 50 s. Since winning the Silver Medal and the Krystian Zimerman Sonata award at the 2015 Chopin Piano Competition, Montreal and Quebec at large have been gaga – for good reason – over Charles Richard-Hamelin. Recorded live in concert this past May at Salle Raoul-Jobin of the Palais Montcalm in Quebec City, this album may begin conservatively with Beethoven’s Two Rondos for Piano, Op. 51, but takes a turn with George Enescu’s Second Suite, Op. 10. With the Enescu, Richard-Hamelin digresses from clinical Classicism into the…

Wlad Marhulets

Rising Stars – Wlad Marhulets: Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music

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

Born in 1986 in Belarus, Wlad Marhulets is a young Polish-American composer and the winner of the inaugural Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music with his Klezmer Clarinet Concerto. He started his music studies rather late at the age of 16, when he first heard a recording of klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer. He was drawn so much to this music that he started studying the clarinet and composition. A few years later he began studying at Julliard in composition under a full scholarship with Oscar and Pulitzer Prize winner John Corigliano. Marhulets says that the klezmer recording of Krakauer changed his…

Jean-Philippe Tremblay, Photo: Alain Lefort

Industry News: October 2016

By Shira Gilbert on 1 October 2016 Arts Industry, La Scena Spotlight, Opera, Orchestral

by: Shira Gilbert and Kiersten van Vliet Orchestral Changeups Conductor Jean-Philippe Tremblay is the new Music Director of Montreal’s Orchestre de chambre Appassionata. Daniel Myssyk, also an associate professor and orchestra conductor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, has stepped down from the post after founding the orchestra 15 years ago. Tremblay also remains at the helm of Orchestre de la francophonie. Education News Tim Price is the new Chair of the Board of Directors at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Price is currently also active on two corporate boards, Canadian Tire Corporation and Fairfax Financial Holdings Inc.…

Suor Angelica, Photo: Tam Lan Truong

Quebec Previews: October 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 October 2016 Baroque and Early, Chamber Music, Contemporary, La Scena Spotlight, Opera, Strings

Les Caprices de la Nuit with Les Violons du Roy On October 13, join violinist and conductor Anthony Marwood and Les Violons du Roy for an evening of exceptional chamber music for strings. The concert includes the String Sextet from Richard Strauss’s final opera Capriccio, Mozart’s charming String Quintet in G minor, and Schoenberg’s late-Romantic Verklärte Nacht. October 13, 8PM, Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm. www.violonsduroy.com James Ehnes @ 40 Continue the celebration of James Ehnes’s 40th birthday as he stops in Quebec City on his way across Canada. With longtime collaborator Andrew Armstrong, Ehnes will play chamber music by Handel,…

Robert Normandeau, Photo: Bernard Préfontaine

Robert Normandeau: Metro Music

By Caroline Rodgers on 1 October 2016 Contemporary, Interviews, Quebec Music

For the first time in its history, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal will showcase a piece in which the musicians won’t play a single note. Tunnel Azur is an acousmatic composition created by Robert Normandeau on commission by the OSM and the STM. The ten minute long Tunnel Azur celebrates, and is entirely inspired by, the 50-year history of the Montréal metro. “With permission from the STM, I had the privilege to go and record the sounds of the metro at night, afterhours. It is a universe that nobody knows, because the metro is closed at night,” says Normandeau. “I…

Chelsea Rus

Rising Stars – Chelsea Rus: Wirth Vocal Prize

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

British Columbian soprano Chelsea Rus’s story is straight from the movies. Already accomplished at the beginning of her international career, no one would think she had never even actually heard an opera before her first year of college. While she played piano and sang since her childhood, she did not give much attention to classical music – she was busy playing jazz and belting Ella Fitzgerald. After watching La Traviata brought her to tears, she began a whole re-education, working her voice in ways she never had before. Years of hard work have paid off: last year she won the…

David Dias Da Silva

Rising Stars – David Dias da Silva: Prix d’Europe & Stepping Stones (CMC)

By Jeanne Hourez on 1 October 2016 Classical Music, La Scena Spotlight

David Dias da Silva was born in 1987, to a Portuguese family, and spent his childhood in Canada before moving to Portugal. There, he joined a wind ensemble, where he developed his passion for music and for the clarinet. At age 12, the musician decided to enrol in a professional music school, where he benefitted from the guidance of Iva Barbosa. “She really gave me all the artistic and personal tools to go into a career in music,” says Da Silva. After six years of study with Barbosa, the clarinettist undertook a baccalaureate at the Porto Superior School of Music…

Charles Richard-Hamelin, Photo: Emily Ding

Rising Stars – Charles Richard-Hamelin: Prix Opus Decouverte de l’année

By Jeanne Hourez on 1 October 2016 La Scena Spotlight, Piano

After winning the second Concours de Musique International de Montréal (CMIM) in 2014 as well as the Bourbeau Foundation’s Best Canadian Musician, for Charles Richard-Hamelin, who took home second prize (silver medal) at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw as well as the Krystian Zimmerman Prize for best performance of a Chopin sonata, 2015 was the most highly anticipated year yet. For a man who had been having an impressive but local career up to that point, this left him, among other perks, with €35,000 and plenty of engagements in all four corners of the world. Notably, he served as a…

Brian Current

Brian Current: The Keys to Creativity

By Caroline Rodgers on 1 October 2016 Canadian Music, Choral, Contemporary, Interviews, La Scena Spotlight, Orchestral

This month, Brian Current will experience something many composers would envy: the premiere and recording of one of his major works by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. The $50,000 Azrieli Prize enabled him to compose The Seven Heavenly Halls for solo tenor, choir and orchestra. The composer talked to La Scena Musicale about this work and his career. Like many musicians, Brian Current first learned piano as a child. “I was lucky my parents were so persistent and constantly got me to practice, even when I didn’t want to,” he says. “My parents weren’t musicians by profession, but they sang in…

Lukáš Vondráček, Photo: Irene Kim

Rising Stars – Lukáš Vondráček: Queen Elisabeth Competition

By Jeanne Hourez on 1 October 2016 La Scena Spotlight, Piano

Born in Czechoslovakia in 1986, Lukáš Vondráček is one of the hottest young pianists on the scene right now. In 2016, he won the International Grand Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, propelling his career, already solidly established in the musical milieu, to new highs. Vondráček had an early introduction to the piano thanks to his mother, herself a professional pianist. He made his stage debut at a young age, and by age 20 he had no less than 850 concerts in 28 different countries under his belt. Notably, he completed his first international tour at the age…

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