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Daily News Roundup: 18 October 2016

By Nicole Yeba on 18 October 2016 Classical Music, Daily News Roundup, Opera, Popular Music, Strings

Jordan de Souza, 28, gets appointed as Kapellmesiter at the Komische Oper Berlin for the 2016-2017 season. The Toronto-born conductor was named the Head of Music at Germany’s Komische Oper Berlin last year. He will conduct a new production and a symphony concert in the orchestra’s series among the approximate 45 performances this season. Rock’n’roll legend, Chuck Berry who celebrates his 90th birthday today, announced he is releasing a new album next year. The album titled Chuck comes 38 years after his last album. Pianist Yuja Wang was named the 2017 artist of the year of Musical America. The piano…

Dennis Kim

Violinist Dennis Kim joins Faculty of the Royal Conservatory

By Newswire on 17 October 2016 Education, Newswire, Violin

Concertmaster of Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra to Work with Students of The Glenn Gould School and The Taylor Academy October 17, 2016—Today, The Royal Conservatory of Music announced the appointment of acclaimed violinist and educator Dennis Kim to the faculty of The Glenn Gould School and The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists, The Conservatory’s internationally recognized training programs for professional musicians. Mr. Kim is the concertmaster of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and a Royal Conservatory alumnus. “Being appointed to the faculty of The Glenn Gould School and The Taylor Academy is a huge honour and a huge…

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…

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…

Joshua Bell, Photo: Eric Kabik

Ottawa Previews: October 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 October 2016 Choral, La Scena Spotlight, Orchestral, Piano, Romantic, Violin

NACO Opening The NAC Orchestra opens its 2016–17 season in the newly renovated Southam Hall with a very busy October, including several soloists not to be missed. On October 6 and 7, virtuoso Joshua Bell performs the Brahms Violin Concerto in a program that includes Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra. Music Director Alexander Shelley conducts after his 7PM pre-concert talk with music journalist Jean-Jacques Van Vlasselaer (Oct. 6 & 7, 8PM, NAC Southam Hall). www.nac-cna.ca Schumann and the Songwriters Angela Hewitt joins Shelley and the NACO for an evening of early Schumann and Beethoven for the first performance in the…

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,…

Review – Après un Rêve: Fauré, Debussy, Ravel (BIS)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 October 2016 CD and Book Reviews, Contemporary, Romantic, Violin

Après un Rêve: Fauré, Debussy, Ravel Christian Svarfvar, violin; Roland Pöntinen, piano BIS 2016. 2183. 61 min 8 s. French music has long held an essential position in a violinist’s repertoire, but with this new release by Swede Christian Svarfvar, the links between French melody and the French operatic tradition of the 19th century are brought into clear focus. The tool used is, of course, the violin, with its latent potential to mimic the expressiveness of the human voice. The disc runs in roughly chronological order, or rather, the way we like to think of the French compositional lineage: Fauré…

Review – György Kurtág: Complete String Quartets (ATMA)

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 October 2016 CD and Book Reviews, Contemporary, Strings

György Kurtág: Complete String Quartets Quatuor Molinari: Olga Ranzenhofer, violin; Frédéric Bednarz, violin; Frédéric Lambert, viola; Pierre-Alain Bouvrette, cello ATMA 2016. ACD2 2705. 60 min 38 s. Quatuor Molinari has become Canada’s champion for 20th and 21st-century composition, including recordings of Canadian R. Murray Schafer’s String Quartets, and, more recently, the premiere of his Alzheimer’s Masterpiece (String Quartet No. 13), a moving tribute to the ailing composer. Following the fine recording of quartets by fellow Canadian Petros Shoujounian (Noravank, April 2016) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, with this release Quatuor Molinari has once again proven its…

CMIM First Prize Now Worth $80,000

By Newswire on 21 September 2016 Arts Industry, Newswire, Piano, Violin, Vocal

Montréal, September 14, 2016 – The Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM) is pleased to announce the addition of the Joseph-Rouleau Career Development Grant worth $50,000 to its roster of prizes for the next three editions: piano 2017, voice 2018, and violin 2019. Funded by the Azrieli Foundation and managed by the CMIM, this grant will be awarded to the First Prize winner, who will also receive $30,000 in cash from the Ville de Montréal, bringing the total value of the First Prize to $80,000. This career development grant has been created to honour internationally-renowned bass Joseph Rouleau, co-founder of…

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