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FORT WORTH, Texas, March 28, 2023–The Cliburn announces today the 24 competitors and 14 additional festival participants invited to the third edition of the Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival, for 13- to 17-year-olds. The global cultural event will take place June 8–17, 2023, in Dallas, Texas, with the first three rounds at Caruth Auditorium at SMU and the Final Round performance with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valentina Peleggi at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. The 38 artists of the 2023 Cliburn Junior hail from all over the world, representing 13 countries: the United States (13), China (12), South…

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by Béatrice M. Cadrin, Rasha Masalkhi and Andrea Rush Béatrice Cadrin has extensive experience as a freelance violinist with ensembles in Quebec, Germany and California. Rasha Masalkhi is a tenured violinist with the Ensemble Obiora. Andrea Rush lives in Toronto, is a former violist with Orchestra Toronto, and former violist with the Strings Attached Orchestra, both local community orchestras.  This year, as with every iteration of the Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM), La Scena Musicale has called upon a team of experts to make predictions about the candidates. The 2023 edition of the competition will be dedicated to the…

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New York, February 27 – New York City Opera proudly announces the winners of the 2023 Duncan Williams Voice Competition. Hosted by J’Nai Bridges, the competition spotlights Black and Latin singers and awards over $50,000 in prize money. On February 3, 2023 at Manhattan School of Music, 11 winners were announced in 4 categories: The Emerging Artistscategory, awarding $8,000 to Cierra Byrd, Daniel Rich,and César Andrés Parreño; the Developing Artists category, awarding $5,000 to Elizabeth Hanje, Benjamin Ruiz, and Jazmine Saunders; the Encouragement Award, awarding $3,500 to Joseph Parrish; and the Black and Latin Song Presentation category, awarding $750 to…

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Montreal, November 12, 2022 ▪ The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal is thrilled to announce the name of the 2022 OSM Competition’s Grand Prize winner: Godwin Friesen.  He wins the Barbara Bronfman Prize ($20,000) named in memory of Barbara Bronfman – a lover of music and dear patron of the OSM. This 83rd edition dedicated to the piano was held from November 8 to 12, bringing together Canada’s most talented young artists, and representing tomorrow’s rising generation of professional musical performers. After two virtual editions, the OSM Competition made a grand return to the concert hall! Also, for the first time, the orchestra…

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PRIZEWINNERS OF THE 76th CONCOURS DE GENÈVE The 76th Concours de Genève ended last Thursday with a spectacular Piano Final at Victoria Hall in Geneva, Switzerland, with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by Maržena Diakun. We are pleased to present the winners of this year’s edition, dedicated to piano and composition: PIANO PRIZEWINNERS FIRST PTRIZE Kevin Chen (17 years old, Canada) SECOND PRIZE Sergey Belyavsky (28 years old, Russia) THIRD PRIZE EX AEQUO Kaoruko Igarashi (28 years old, Japan) Zijian Wei (24 years old, China) COMPOSITION PRIZEWINNERS FIRST PRIZE Shin Kim, 27 years old, South Korea For his…

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The Azrieli Music Prizes 2 St. Clair Avenue West, Suite 900; Toronto, ON M4V 1L5 Tel: 416-322-5928 x326 [email protected] azrielifoundation.org/amp Dates�: October 2024 Application deadline�: May 5, 2023 Age requirement: Open to all ages Discipline�: Composers The Azrieli Music Prizes offer opportunities for the discovery, creation, performance and celebration of excellence in music composition by awarding four prize packages each valued at $200,000 CAD: Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music, Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music, Azrieli Commission for International Music, and Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music. (Dates can be modified) BADER  AND OVERTON CANADIAN Piano COMPETITION and Festival Isabel Bader Centre…

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The Isidore, none of whose members is older than 23, has only been together since 2021 before winning the Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC) on Sept. 4. The Juilliard students did play together a little in 2019, before the pandemic, but violist Devin Moore said at first there was little chemistry. The musicians were still focused on their individual career directions. String ­quartets were not yet a priority. “We were the right people at the wrong time,” said Moore. “But when we decided to try it again, everything sort of clicked.” In the summer of 2021, the four players…

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Although she is still but poised on the precipice of a career full of promise, contralto Rose Naggar-Tremblay has been charming audiences for many years. The Montreal native began her musical studies at 12 years old, and went on to receive a degree in vocal performance from McGill before joining the Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal in 2017, where she sang the role of Zora in their 2018 Opus Prize-winning production of Ana Sokolovic’s Svadba, as well as Getrude Stein in Twenty-Seven, and Gabrielle in the première of La nuit est ma femme. More recently, her work as an…

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Tenor Matthew Cairns’s star has been rising for a few years now, but his promise was given the ultimate seal of approval when he became one of the winners of the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition this past spring. When asked to share the secret of his success, Cairns said: “I think you need to sing what you feel most comfortable singing, and what is also a popular piece. The audience loves an aria that is full of emotion and drama. Ultimately you need to show the audience who you are, and the right aria will do…

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In the three years since graduating from McGill, Marie Nadeau-Tremblay is well on her way to success, as shown by a pair of distinctions she netted recently: first Radio-Canada’s revelations prize in 2021 and now the Opus Discovery prize. Add to these a number of prizes and bursaries previously received, and it all points to one fact: she is off to an impressive start. Music has been in her blood from the day she picked up a violin at age 4. But now she dedicates herself solely to its baroque counterpart, a switch she made upon discovering the instrument after…

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