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By Kaitlyn Chan on 12 November 2024 Classical Music

Université de Sherbrooke School of Music Université de Sherbrooke School of Music has three new scholarships for 2025 fall admission, thanks to a generous donation from the Sandra and Alain Bouchard Foundation. These scholarships, worth $10,000 each, will help high-achieving music students with the cost of tuition. Université de Sherbrooke continues to prioritize students with scholarship opportunities such as these as well as its flexible admission process, which allows students to apply any time throughout the year and complete the admission process remotely. Their new scholarships will be awarded based on the quality of admission files and results in admission…

The Royal Conservatory 21C Music Festival 2024-25

By Newswire on 12 November 2024 Arts Industry, Classical Music, Newswire, Toronto

Tuesday, November 12, 2024 21C MUSIC FESTIVAL The twelfth edition of the 21C Music Festival, which spans from January to May of 2025, will consist of 8 concerts, including a production of The Journal of Hélène Berr, Measha Brueggergosman-Lee in Aaron Davis’s and Margaret Atwood’s Zombie Blizzard, Bruce Hornsby and yMusic presenting BrhyM, Michelle Cann and the Imani Winds, and a partnership with Continuum Contemporary Music. In total, the Festival will include more than 14 premieres: 2 world (Kalaisan Kalaichelvan’s C’est Pas Beau? and Kotoka Suzuki’s yet unnamed piece), 1 North American (Bernard Foccroulle’s The Journal of Hélène Berr), and…

Chants de Victoires: La Nef in Stormy Waters

By Arnaud G. Veydarier on 11 November 2024 Baroque and Early, Classical Music

Seán Dagher is recognized as one of the most eminent specialists in early music and folk music in Quebec, and on Nov. 29 he will once more join La Nef, to perform Chants de Victoires. Composer and arranger, Dagher will accompany the audience on an unusual musical journey inspired by the famous naval victories and shipwrecks that have punctuated the history of the St. Lawrence river. Using extracts from a rediscovered manuscript from the time of New France, the show will air forgotten songs, some of which haven’t been performed in more than three centuries. Songs of New France brought…

Computing Early Music: La Scena on the Road: Report from Utrecht

By Viktor Lazarov on 11 November 2024 Baroque and Early, Classical Music

Following along the narrow streets of Utrecht’s medieval city centre, I am drawn to its charming, sinuous canals winding through bridges upon which rest innumerable bikes, like ornaments hanging over their oval arches. A city with the soul of a scholar, Utrecht hosts one of the world’s leading Early Music festivals and, this year, the Second International Conference on Cognitive and Computational Musicology. Held at Utrecht University (UU) in the Netherlands, the Oct. 17-18 conference marked the establishment of the Music Information Computing Group at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences and celebrated Prof. Frans Wiering’s official retirement. A…

Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière: Baroque Dance

By Nathalie de Han on 11 November 2024 Baroque and Early, Dance, Montreal

In 2008, director, choreographer and dancer Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière founded Les Jardins Chorégraphiques, a company specializing in early dance She first performed Molière’s plays in Old Quebec with, among others, violinist Olivier Brault. “When Olivier moved to Montreal to do his master’s in Baroque music at McGill, he suggested I teach Baroque dance to a group of students,” says Lacoursière. “Dancing helps instrumentalists to feel the music so that they can physically understand its characteristics.” But how do you explain the success of these ancient dances in relation to contemporary dance? Baroque dance brings the music to life on stage—it’s a…

Mathieu Lussier: Arion Baroque Orchestra: The French Connection

By Viktor Lazarov on 11 November 2024 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Interviews, Montreal

The Life of an Orchestra: From Embryo to Adulthood Comprising some 20 musicians playing on 18th-century instruments, more than 30 critically acclaimed recordings, adorned with numerous awards and international tours, the Arion Baroque Orchestra is a major figure in Quebec’s Early Music scene. Artistic director since 2019, bassoonist Mathieu Lussier recounts the evolution of the ensemble founded in 1981. “Arion was born at a time when many Quebec musicians were going to study Early Music in The Hague, Netherlands, to acquire experience and knowledge not existent in Quebec. Returning with precious new expertise, they founded their own ensembles to promote…

Upcoming Concerts: Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto, West of Canada

By Heather Weinreb on 11 November 2024 Chamber Music, Classical, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto, Vancouver

On Tour Barbara Hannigan & Bertrand Chamayou Photo: Luciano Romano Barbara Hannigan & Bertrand Chamayou In celebration of their recent “Messaien” album release, Juno and Grammy Award-winning soprano Barbara Hannigan and pianist Bertrand Chamayou will tour Canada and the U.S. in November and December. The concert opens with Messaien’s Chants de terre et de ciel, rich with complex rhythms and vibrant, vocal colours. In addition, Hannigan and Chamayou will perform Scriabin’s Poème-nocturne, and Vers la flamme alongside John Zorn’s Jumalattaret —a sign cycle using text from Finnish epic poetry. The tour stops in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, and Ottawa along…

Suzie LeBlanc. Photo: Mark Mushet.

Suzie LeBlanc: Full Circle

By Holly Harris on 10 November 2024 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Vancouver, Vocal

Life came full circle when acclaimed Acadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc took over the helm of Early Music Vancouver as its newly appointed Artistic and Executive Director in January 2021, returning to the province where she first launched her illustrious, 35-year international career. “Coming here felt not only like a return to the organization that gave me one of my first professional engagements outside of Montreal, but also an incredible opportunity because so much of the concert season was at a standstill due to the pandemic,” says Order of Canada member LeBlanc, of her bold leap from La Belle Province to…

OSL. Photo: Annie Diotte

Winter Festivals

By La Scena Events on 10 November 2024 Classical Music, Guides, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver

New Brunswick Fredericton Frostival Festival Fredericton, January 23 to February 9 www.frostival.ca Montréal Expozine Montréal, November 23 to 24 www.expozine.ca Lumino Montréal, November 28 to March 9 www.quartierdesspectacles.com Festival Noël dans le parc Montréal, December 6 to 31 www.noeldansleparc.com Salon des métiers d’art Montréal, December 12 to 22 www.metiersdart.ca Fête des Neiges de Montréal Montréal, December 26 to March 5 www.parcjeandrapeau.com Igloofest Montréal, January 16 to February 8 www.igloofest.ca Festival classique hivernal Laval, January 31 to February 2 www.osl.ca/festival-classique-hivernal For its 4th edition, the Orchestre symphonique de Laval invites you to its Winter Classical Festival, a three-day musical marathon to…

Photo : Monique de St. Croix

Jenny Belzberg: Mastering the Art of the Volunteer

By Kaija Pepper on 10 November 2024 Classical Music

Supporting the arts is, for Jenny Belzberg, greatly about community. The Calgary philanthropist’s engagement with artists and arts organizations as a stalwart board member and generous donor has introduced her to people and experiences that, she says, enrich her life. She is still, at 96, keen to promote the creative spirit. Since receiving a prestigious Governor General’s Award earlier this year—the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts—Belzberg has been inundated with interview requests. When we spoke (her second interview of the day), she graciously said: “I appreciate the attention, but it’s a bit overwhelming.” Rather than…

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