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CANADA The mayor of Montreal Denis Coderre engage to give 100 000$ per year to the OSM. « Through its international stature, the OSM is a cherished ambassador whose fame reflects back on the national and international reputation of Montreal, said Coderre ». [More infos] [More Infos 2] « The Gatineau Music Conservatory [will receive …] Sérgio et Odair Assad as a part of his 12e Edition of the Festival Guitare Alla Grande.» [More infos] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n60V6ukmJog INTERNATIONNAL  The Chinese pianist Lang Lang leaves Sony and return with Deutsche Grammophon. [More infos] [More infos] [More infos] « Seattle Symphony plays music from 7 nations that Trump…

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CANADA The Amadeus Choral from Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean will celebrate its 75th anniversary on February 12 with a special mass. [Plus d’infos] Classical’s nomination for the JUNO Awards. A special article of The Scena Musica on it ! [JUNO Awards – And the 46th JUNO Award Nominees are…] Program announced for the 21C Music Festival in May 24-28 2017. [Newswire in My Scena] INTERNATIONAL The famous violinist Svend Asmussen died yesterday, a few days before his 101th birthday. He was well-know for his performances with many stars of jazz like with Stéphane Grappelli, Josephine Baker and Duke Ellington. LaPresse : [Plus d’Infos] LeDevoir: [Plus d’Infos] LeFigaro: [Plus…

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January 26, 2017, Kingston ON …. The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts at Queen’s University announces the semi-finalists for the inaugural ISABEL OVERTON BADER CANADIAN VIOLIN COMPETITION. Eight semi-finalists have been chosen to perform at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts on April 26 and 27, 2017. Subsequently, three finalists will be chosen for the concerto round (with piano) on April 29, 2017 at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts (“the Isabel”) in Kingston, Ontario. The Isabel Overton Bader Canadian Violin Competition was made possible through the generosity of Alfred and Isabel Bader, whose…

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Stradivarius à l’Opéra Alexandre Da Costa, violin, Vienna Symphony Orchestra Spectra 2016. SPECD7859. 60 min 10 s. This luscious CD of operatic masterpieces transcribed for solo violin shows Alexandre Da Costa at his best. Selections include the Habenera from Bizet’s Carmen, Méditation from Massenet’s Thaïs, Valse from Strauss’s Cavelleria Rusticana, and Nessun Dorma from Puccini’s Turandot. From the legendary Richard Wagner, Romance from Tannhauser, Liebeslied from Die Walküre and Preislied from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg are also included. The world-class Vienna Symphony prove to be ideal collaborators. Their full-bodied timbre is a dulcet match for Da Costa’s resonant style. Rather…

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As soon as I entered her office, I felt the passion that drives Jutta Puchhammer-Sédillot as she spoke about her instrument. She explained to me that “among the strings, the viola’s register is the closest to the human voice. Every string of the viola has its own tone.” An accomplished Viennese-born violist, Puchhammer-Sédillot is professor of viola in the Faculty of Music at the University of Montreal and is as passionate about the repertoire as she is about teaching the instrument. She regularly attends viola conferences around the world, where she shares her discoveries and reflections with other internationally-acclaimed violists.…

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Canadian violin virtuoso Alexandre Da Costa is on a mission – to bring classical music to the public. His latest project Stradivarius à l’Opéra consists of twelve gems from the operatic repertoire, ­reworked for solo violin and orchestra. He ­selected the works that he felt suited his large, lush tone, found the arrangements and then made a recording, now out on CD. Da Costa said that the project has two principal ­objectives: to appeal to opera lovers with a ­different approach to classics, and to reach out to those not familiar with the beauty of opera by providing an easily…

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 Decca launches a publishing division and it has appointed Natasha Baldwin as the head. Decca Publishing will help expand opportunities for ‘neo-classical’ composers to write for television, film and video games. It will also work with Universal Music Publishing Classical. The English Symphony Orchestra has appointed Michael Young in the new role of assistant conductor. The British conductor will take the new position in January 2017. The board of the Camerata Nordica, orchestra based in Oskarshamn in Sweden, has cancelled the rest of the season. It also announced the resignation of its artistic director Terje Tonessen, all due to…

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Cellist Taeguk Mun won the János Starker Foundation Award, worth $25,000. The 22-year-old South Korean is based in Boston. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmqU2EGVBZQ Violist and music teacher Christopher Waters was fatally shot in his Memphis home during a home invasion. The 30-year-old was shot dead last Friday. Two men, both aged 22, have been charged in connection of the murder. Cellist David Ethève died at the age of 50 following a battle with brain cancer. The French-born musician was a founding member of the Sinfónica de Galicia in Spain in 1992 and served as the ensemble’s principal cellist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3pzoyDmiCQ

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Most critics pick their album of the year from the ones they reviewed over the past 52 weeks. I’ve decided to choose from the ones I haven’t, the ones that for one reason or other failed to make the weekly cut. So much good stuff out there. Try Peter Donohoe’s new set of the Scriabin sonatas (Somm ****), the early ones especially showing where Rachmaninov might have gone if he had followed fantasy to the end of the flight. And Boris Giltburg’s account of the Rachmaninov’s Etudes-tableaux (Naxos ****) has not strayed far from my player all year long. I…

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Greg Lake, bassist, guitarist and singer of British progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer lost his fight to cancer yesterday at the age of 69. The keyboardist Keith Emerson took his own life in March 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89g1P_J40JA Sheku Kanneh-Mason was presented with the 1610 Amati cello he played at BBC Young Musician of the Year. The instrument is a permanent loan from Florian Leonhard workshop in London. Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky announced today he was withdrawing from all coming opera engagements. The 54-year-old singer who was diagnosed with brain tumor in 2015 will continue giving concerts and recitals,…

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