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Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity launches new strategic direction and visual identity

By Newswire on 23 June 2016 Arts Industry, Classical Music, Newswire

23 June 2016 — Together with its Board of Governors, Banff Centre is proud to unveil a new, long range strategic plan in order to advance and secure its position as the global leader in arts, culture, and creativity. Work on the Banff Centre five-year strategic plan commenced in May 2015, and was accompanied by a thorough review of the mission, vision, and strategic direction. Concurrent to the strategic planning work, the Centre undertook an update to its branding and institutional graphic identity. Entitled The Creative Voice: 2016- 2021, the strategic plan includes the introduction of: An update of its public…

Canadian Music Competition Stepping Stone Winners Announced

By Newswire on 22 June 2016 Classical Music, Newswire

The Gala Concert featuring the winners will take place on July 5 with the Orchestre symphonique de Drummondville 21 June 2016 — The management of the Canadian Music Competition – Canimex (CMC) is pleased to announce the names of the winners of the 2016 Stepping Stone. The winner of the First Prize will appear in concert on July 5 at 7 pm in Salle Léo-Paul-Therrien at the Maison des arts Desjardins, with the Orchestre symphonique de Drummondville under the direction of conductor Julien Proulx. Other winners of the general section of the CMC will also be heard. Note that 28 young…

Daily News Roundup: 21 June 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 21 June 2016 Classical Music, Daily News Roundup, Literature, Popular Music, Scena Jazz, Vocal Jazz

+ R.E.M’s Mike Mills Concerto for Violin, Rock Band, and String Orchestra with the TSO was quite the hit with younger audiences. + A miniseries based on Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace begins shooting in August and will appear on both Netflix and CBC. + Sook-Yin Lee is moving onto a project called Sleepover, after Definitely Not the Opera got cut from CBC’s on-air programming earlier this year. + Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi is raising awareness for the environmental degradation of the North by playing on an ice floe in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. Watch a video of his performance. +…

Video of the Day – Ludovico Einaudi

By Kiersten van Vliet on 21 June 2016 Piano, Video of the day

In perhaps the coldest concert ever recorded, Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi plays an ode to the Arctic while floating on a platform in the middle of the ocean. Associated with Greenpeace, this act of environmental activism is to raise awareness for the environmental degradation of one of the most fragile ecosystems on our planet. As Einaudi plays, parts of glaciers crack and fall into the Arctic Ocean, a chilling reminder of climate change due to the greenhouse gas effect.

Juan Diego Flórez Signs to Sony Classical

By Newswire on 20 June 2016 Newswire, Opera

20 June 2016 — Sony Classical is proud to announce a long-term exclusive contract with Juan Diego Flórez, one of today’s most prominent stars of the opera and concert stage. The tenor of choice for the world’s leading theatres in the bel canto repertoire and beyond, Juan Diego Flórez’s fluid, expressive singing and dazzling virtuosity have thrilled audiences and critics alike and earned him global acclaim. The Financial Times recently noted: “For a voice of high class and high Cs by the armful, Flórez is your man.” Born in 1973 into a musical family in Lima, Peru, the young singer…

Daily News Roundup: 18–20 June 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 20 June 2016 Classical Music, Daily News Roundup, Mainstream Jazz, Opera, Popular Music, Scena Jazz

Welcome to today’s Daily News Roundup, where we celebrate great musicians from home and abroad. Plus, check out a rather large portrait of Beethoven. + Joshua Errett asks what type of music should make up a jazz festival in “If Sarah McLachlan plays a jazz festival, is it still a jazz festival?” for CBC News. + This portrait of Beethoven takes up a million square feet. + Tenor Juan Diego Flórez signed to Sony Classical in an exclusive recording contract. + Dutch bass and Baroque specialist Peter Kooij has received the Bach medal from the city of Leipzig (French).…

Pianist Louise Bessette Receives Honorary Doctorate from Western University

By Newswire on 20 June 2016 Newswire, Piano

20 June 2016 — This morning, pianist Louise Bessette received the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, from Western University in London, Ontario. The Montreal pianist is recognized for her accomplishments as “an internationally recognized performer and leading light in the interpretation of 20th and 21st century music, and for her significant impact in the contemporary world of classical piano.” Louise Bessette is one of today’s pre-eminent interpreters of the music of our time. Possessing a unique combination of eclectic repertory and impeccable delivery, Bessette has been hailed as “a 20th-century specialist of penetrating insight and unerring technique” (The Gazette) and is praised for…

Video of the Day – Jacques Offenbach

By Michele Duguay on 20 June 2016 Opera, Romantic, Video of the day

Born on June 20 1819, German-born French composer Jacques Offenbach is particularly known for his operettas. Orpheus in the Underworld and The Tales of Hoffman are still part of today’s repertoire. During Offenbach’s lifetime, Paris’s Opera-Comique was not interested in staging his works and the composer had to rent his own venue and the Champs-Élysées. Watch an excerpt of La Périchole where the title character sings after a few evening drinks.

Wilfrid Pelletier and the OSM (1963), City of Montreal Archives

This Day in Music – Happy Birthday Wilfrid Pelletier

By Michele Duguay on 20 June 2016 Orchestral, This Day in Music

The first artistic director of the OSM, conductor and pianist Wilfrid Pelletier, was born in Montréal on this day in 1896. In 1966, the largest room in the Place des Arts was named after him. Pelletier is also known for beginning the OSM in the Parks tradition, which is still alive today. You can see the OSM in Chartier-De Lotbinière park in Rigaud on July 26 and Poly-Aréna park in Brossard on the 27. Assistant conductor Dina Gilbert will return to lead a program of Russian symphonic works by Glinka, Borodin, Glazunov, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, and Mussorgsky, featuring 2010 OSM Competition winner…

“Mozart was born in New Orleans!” Paquito D’Rivera at FMCM Review

By Camilo Lanfranco on 19 June 2016 Chamber Music, Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Mainstream Jazz, Scena Jazz, World Music

“The most beautiful piece written for the clarinet is Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major and we did a study on it at the Louisiana University of Jazz with my friend Wynton Marsalis… We arrived to the conclusion that Mozart was not from Austria, he is from the New Orleans! And that the right way to play Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major is as a blues, in fact, a New Orleans blues!” —Paquito D’Rivera, Pollack Hall, 17 June 2016 Winner of 14 Grammy Awards with a discography of more than 30 solo albums since he first started his career…

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