Review | 12 Ensemble grows a British-Canadian premiere
After their collaborative season at Wigmore Hall, string orchestra 12 Ensemble are going from strength to strength. What this string ensemble might lack in a…
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Review | Steve Shibe & Ema Nikolovska Bring on the New at Wigmore Hall
Scottish guitarist Steve Shibe is a feature artist at London’s Wigmore Hall this season. I first clocked him at a stellar concert with the Manchester…
Review | Barbara Hannigan Pulls Out All the Stops at Toronto’s Koerner Hall
Canadian soprano and 20/21st-century specialist extraordinaire, Barbara Hannigan, appeared at Toronto’s Koerner Hall on Nov. 28 with French pianist Bertrand Chamayou in a program they…
Highlights | Canadians Question Identity of Singer-Songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie
The country is wondering about the identity of singer-songwriter and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie after a new CBC investigation that contradicts her decades-old claims to Indigenous heritage.
La nef: The grandiose ritual
Four years ago, at the invitation of the company BOP (Ballet-Opéra-Pantomime), Cédric Delorme-Bouchard staged the show Le vaisseau-cœur, for the 2019 season opening of Salle…
Walter Boudreau: 33 years with the SMCQ
A major page is about to turn. The Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) in September announced the retirement of its artistic director Walter…
