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Newswire | Composer Simon Bertrand Appointed Interim Artistic Director of the SMCQ

By Newswire on 28 September 2023 Arts Industry, Montreal, Newswire

Montreal, September 27, 2023 – Anik Shooner, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ), announces the appointment of Simon Bertrand as Interim Artistic Director. The composer has been actively involved in the Quebec and Canadian music scene for many years. Mr. Bertrand officially took office on September 13, 2023. The Board of Directors has chosen to offer Mr. Bertrand the position of Interim Artistic Director to ensure artistic continuity during the ongoing strategic reflection required by the current post-pandemic cultural context. Mr. Bertrand will carry out his mandate in close collaboration with…

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Newswire | Le FIFA inaugurates a tour of free screenings across Quebec

By Newswire on 27 September 2023 Film, Montreal, Visual Arts

Montréal, September 27, 2023 – The International Festival of Films on Art (Le FIFA) unveils a tour of free screenings across the province. A pilot project, running from September to December 2023, with the aim of making art films accessible to all audiences and all regions of Quebec. A major player in the promotion of art films for over 40 years, both here and internationally, Le FIFA is today redoubling its efforts in its mission to promote cultural accessibility, by offering an innovative tour of free screenings in emblematic cultural venues in our region. This strategic partnership with the CDPQ…

In front: Élisabeth St-Gelais and Guillaume Lombart. Behind, from left to right: Denise Lefebvre, visual arts commissioner, Louise Pelletier, Élisabeth St-Gelais's pianist, Michel Ferland, general and artistic director, Baptiste Petit, digital marketing and international development

Newswire | Élisabeth St-Gelais signs exclusive contract with ATMA Classique

By Newswire on 27 September 2023 Classical Music, Montreal

Montreal, September 19 – Guillaume Lombart, President of ATMA Classique, is delighted to announce the signing of an exclusive recording contract with the multi award-winning Innu soprano Élisabeth St-Gelais on the ATMA Classique label. “Her exceptional voice, remarkable talent and dazzling career debut caught my attention, and I was inspired to help develop her career with this exclusive contract,” says Lombart. ATMA Classique will produce three albums over a six-year period with Élisabeth St-Gelais. The first album will be devoted to Duparc, Chausson, and Poulenc, masters of French melody. St-Gelais will be accompanied by pianist Louise Pelletier, and the recording…

Concert Review | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s splendid modernization of baroque music

By Kristen Whittle on 27 September 2023 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews, Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Dance, Toronto

The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir opened their 2023/24 season with “In Time,” a program that combined baroque music and contemporary dance. The choir collaborated with dancers from Compagnie de la Citadelle to create an amalgamation of old and new that was both captivating and eye-catching. Dance was incorporated into Bach’s Christ lag in Todesbanden (Christ lays in the snares of Death) and Handel’s Dixit Dominus. Considering the popularity of dance in the baroque period, it is not surprising that this music would be well-suited to accompanying dance. The Bach featured a solo dancer that acted out the German text in a…

Newswire | Jocelyn Ménard Caribbean Jazz Group launches Montreal tour

By Newswire on 26 September 2023 Mainstream Jazz, Montreal, Scena Jazz, World Music

Montreal, September 25 – Saxophonist, composer and arranger Jocelyn Ménard is a Canadian-born jazz musician. Trained in Montreal, New York with George Coleman and Paris with Bernard Maury. He has played regularly with the Bernard Primeau Jazz Ensemble, Vic Vogel’s Big Band and various groups ranging from jazz to Latin music, and has taken part in numerous festivals. Since 1988, he has regularly shuttled between Quebec and Guadeloupe. He plays regularly with André Condouant, Happy Lewis, Charlie Chomereau-Lamotte, and the Big Band Mavounzy, and Gwadloup and in small groups [Men Art Jazz 4tet, An’nax, Guanada…]. With Canadian pianist Normand Deveault,…

Jacques Lacombe (Credit: Brent Calis)

Newswire | 200 years of Ukrainian classical music with the OCM

By Newswire on 25 September 2023 Classical Music, Montreal, Newswire, World Music

Montréal, September 25, 2023 – For the first orchestral concert of the season, the Orchestre classique de Montréal (OCM) will shine the spotlight on Ukraine’s rich musical heritage with a varied program spanning more than 200 years of classical works by renowned Ukrainian composers. This will be Maestro Jacques Lacombe’s first appearance this season as the OCM’s new Artistic Director. The concert will take place on Tuesday, October 17, at 7:30 p.m., at Salle Pierre‑Mercure and will serve as a fundraiser for Ukrainian artists through the Canada-Ukraine Foundation’s “Aid for Artists” fund. In addition to a world premiere by Ukrainian‑Canadian composer Joanna Estelle Storoschuk, this all‑Ukrainian…

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Review | TSO Concert: Lili Boulanger, Gershwin and Stravinsky

By Paul E. Robinson on 21 September 2023 Concert Reviews, Orchestral, Toronto

This week, the Toronto Symphony opened its 101st season with celebrated pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet as soloist. While Thibaudet played brilliantly, it was the orchestra and its masterful conductor who stole the show. In the second half of the concert, the orchestra’s interpretation of Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps practically blew the roof off. The piece’s famously generated confusion and outrage at its 1913 premiere in Paris, when the ballet’s performance, with choreography by Diaghilev, almost caused a riot. The audience reaction was quite different, though, on September 20 2023, when the performance was met with cheers from a crowd who…

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Newswire | Trio Fibonacci: “Russia light and darkness”

By Newswire on 19 September 2023 Classical Music, Montreal

Montreal, 19 September 2023 — For their opening concert of the season on October 3rd at Bourgie Hall, the Trio Fibonacci proposes three Russian trios that go straight to the heart! Composed in the tradition of elegiac or commemorative trios, these pieces stand out both for their universality and for their Slavic colours. Arensky’s trio draws us into its dramatic atmosphere and its lyricism which dances between melancholy and sweetness. Rachmaninoff, the last great Romantic whose 150th birthday we celebrate this year, then offers us music on the scale of his nation, where Eastern sounds meet those of the Orthodox…

Newswire | Mécénat Musica program distributes $10 million to 50 Quebec cultural organizations since 2020

By Newswire on 19 September 2023 Classical Music, Montreal

Montréal, Sept. 12th, 2023 – Mécénat Musica program has distributed $10 million to 50 cultural organizations in Quebec since 2020 from funds administered by three partner community foundations: Foundation of Greater Montreal, the Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal and Fondation Québec Philanthrope. These distributions are from income generated by the Mécénat Musica cultural program that has created $92,000,000 of in perpetuity capital from donations from more than 600 Mécénat Musica individuals and families. Mécénat Musica is a cultural program by donors for donors to keep culture healthy, in perpetuity, for generations to come. Mécénat Musica encourages individuals to make an in-perpetuity donation of $25,000 to…

Newswire | Sinfonia Toronto Opens Season with a New Twist on Beethoven’s 5th

By Newswire on 18 September 2023 Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Toronto

Toronto, ON, September 18, 2023 – Sinfonia Toronto will open their 25th Anniversary season on October 21, 8 pm in George Weston Recital Hall with a concert titled BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH! Music Director Nurhan Arman will conduct. The evening’s soloist will be virtuoso violinist Elisso Gogibedaschwili, acclaimed by Sinfonia Toronto audiences in several previous seasons. Elisso was just 13 when she made her Canadian debut with Sinfonia Toronto. Now an international star performing throughout Europe, she will play the Canadian premiere of Otar Taktakishvili’s Violin Concerto No. 2, a vivid work reminiscent of Shostakovich, plus one of the most popular violin…

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