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Welcome to the October 2024 national issue of La Scena Musicale, which features our annual October special on Rising Stars with profiles of 10 promising musicians (pp. 22-25), along with our annual Competition Guide (p. 18).
Our French cover story is about pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, whose recent international victories in Montreal (MIMC) in May and Leeds in September make him the latest Canadian to shine in the piano world.
Our English cover spotlights the Azrieli Music Prizes and its gala concert in Montreal on Oct. 28. This year’s edition focuses on choral music in works by Josef Bardanashvili, Yair Klartag, Jordan Nobles and Juan Trigos. Eva Stone-Barney interviewed all four composers.
We continue to support choral music with our regular two-page choral section. Our main profile is conductor Simon Fournier, whose career of more than 25 years was recently recognized by a prize from the Alliance des Chorales du Québec. With this issue, we include a choral calendar of selected concerts.
The issue also contains articles about Bourgie Hall’s complete Schubert Lieder project, Chants Libres’s production of Sainte Marine, La Route des concerts, Esprit Orchestra and Tafelmusik’s Rachel Podger, NYO’s Naomi Woo, Les Idées heureuses and Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques’s 30th anniversary. We continue our profile of recently appointed arts leaders with Jennifer Szeto, Fabienne Voisin and Robin Whiffen.
Our events calendar lists a wide variety of performances. As always, we offer reviews of interesting recordings and concerts.
Beginning with this issue, we welcome Gianmarco Segato as Assistant Editor and Kaitlyn Chan as Editorial Intern.
SUBSCRIPTION AND DONATION DRIVE
The 2024-25 season continues the all-colour format the magazine adopted in November 2017. All six issues will be national issues, with separate English and French editions, which asserts our position as the largest bilingual arts media in Canada. We may also publish special issues during the year for our paying subscribers. Additionally, we will continue to offer personalized serenades for both Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day.
La Scena Musicale has evolved with changing consumer habits in media consumption, while also maintaining its core mission: to promote music and the arts. Our print magazine will continue to provide quality curated articles and interviews in both English and French, while our website focuses on news and events.
As we look ahead to the 2024-25 season, we aim to increase both digital and print content. As this issue demonstrates, we have many talented writers and we wish to give space to their voices. Frequent increases in the price of magazine paper, however, are cause for concern. We hope you will consider supporting our magazine through a donation and/or by joining our fundraising committee by contacting us at [email protected].
Another way to support the magazine is through the LSM Boutique at mySCENA.org, where greeting cards and tickets to our partners’ events are available for purchase. We are also reviving our Discovery Box, which was suspended during COVID.
As a result of the pandemic, we have changed from street distribution to home delivery. We invite our readers to purchase subscriptions so as to ensure they continue to receive all of our annual issues. Subscriptions can also be purchased for others, and make an ideal gift for students, parents or artists.
As always, La Scena Musicale maintains a vigorous presence on Facebook, X/Twitter and LinkedIn. The website offers new resources almost daily. The live performing arts are back, and La Scena Musicale is here to support them.
We wish you a happy and artistic autumn!
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Contents
- 6 Editorial
- 8 Industry News
- 10 Azrieli Music Prizes 2024
- 16 Choir: Simon Fournier
- 17 Choir: Société Phil du Nouveau Monde
- 17 Choral Calendar
- 18 Competition Guide
- 20 Jaeden Izik-Dzurko
- 22 Rising Stars
- 26 Naomi Woo
- 27 La Route des concerts
- 27 Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques
- 28 Bourgie Hall : Schubert Lieder
- 29 Chants Libres
- 30 Esprit Orchestre
- 31 Tafelmusik’s Rachel Podger
- 32 Canada’s Newest Company Directors, Part 2
- 34 Jazz: Devin Daniels
- 34 Jazz: Archive of the Month
- 35 Jazz: Record Reviews
- 36 CD Reviews
- 38 Venue Guide
- 40 National Calendar
- 41 Upcoming Concerts
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