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New Year’s Concert 2019 with conductor Xincao Li

Newswire | Li Delun Music Foundation Announces 2026 “East-Meets-West New Year’s Concert”

Celebrate the arrival of the New Year with the Li Delun Music Foundation’s unforgettable musical celebration—an artistic, cultural, and emotional journey that has become a cherished Toronto tradition. Since its establishment in 2003, the annual New Year’s Concert has become one of the most anticipated cultural celebrations for overseas Chinese communities and is part of the global Happy Chinese New Year celebrations. The 2026 performance marks the 19th edition of this signature event, continuing its mission of showcasing cultural harmony through music. This 2026 Concert Celebrates the Year of the Horse with musical selections connecting historical, cultural, and mythical imagery…

Newswire | Jordi Savall – Un mar de músicas 1440–1880

By Newswire on 27 November 2025 Baroque and Early, Montreal, Newswire, World Music

Montréal, November 27, 2025 — Traquen’Art is proud to present in Montreal the latest monumental creation by Jordi Savall, Un mar de músicas 1440–1880, a sweeping musical and historical journey spanning four centuries of Atlantic memory. This exceptional Montreal and Quebec premier will bring together some thirty artists from Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean on the stage of the Maison symphonique on Saturday, April 18, 2026, at 8 p.m. With this powerful and evocative musical fresco, the Catalan maestro — an essential figure of the viol and a pioneer of historical performance — explores the Atlantic as a…

Matthias Maute et Sophie Larivière, flûtes. Photo: Tam Photography

Ensemble Caprice : Two Flutes, One Direction

By Justin Bernard on 3 October 2025 Baroque and Early, Chamber Music, World Music

Since its creation in 1989, Ensemble Caprice has lived several lives, crossed continents, and continually reached ever-greater heights, reaching the size of a large orchestra that, depending on the project, is also capable of returning to more intimate dimensions, similar to the spirit of its beginnings. Their 2025-26 season perfectly illustrates these multiple facets, often reflecting their two contrasting venues. Performances at the large Maison symphonique and the intimate Le 9e, a new hall on the Montreal Eaton Centre’s art-deco style restored ninth floor, are symbolic of the musical treasures that this versatile ensemble seeks to bring to light. Ensemble…

Festival de la Voix: A Celebration of Cultural Diversity

By Adrian Rodriguez on 20 March 2025 Arts Industry, Folk, Indigenous, Interviews, Jazz, Montreal, Popular Music, Vocal, World Music

Since its inception, Le Festival de la Voix has been dedicated to showcasing the beauty of the human voice, offering audiences a rich variety of vocal music from classical to jazz, folk, and world music. For its 12th edition, the festival continues to spotlight artistic diversity and meaningful cultural collaborations. One of its highlights is Nikamu Mamuitun (Songs That Unite Us), a project uniting Indigenous and Quebecer singer-songwriters to explore shared histories and musical traditions by blending French and Innu lyrics to reinforce connection and reconciliation. Eight emerging artists will present the results of their work at the Beaconsfield High…

TSO Invites Listeners to Discover a World of Sound in Globe-Spanning 2025/26 Season

By Newswire on 20 February 2025 Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Toronto, World Music

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) is excited to announce its 2025/26 concert season—an array of extraordinary musical experiences featuring works and artists from across the globe. For what promises to be a year of unprecedented international attention on Toronto during the World Cup, Music Director Gustavo Gimeno has crafted a season that broadens cross-border creative connections. This diversity of programming is reflected in the TSO’s wide-ranging concert series—showcasing orchestral gems, new creative voices, widely played hits of the past and present, entertaining entry points for young audiences, and sweeping cinematic soundscapes—designed to appeal and speak to everyone. Highlights include the return of megastar pianist Lang…

Tenor Frédéric Antoun, conductor Kent Nagano, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and the OSM Chorus give the world premiere of 2016 AMP Laureate Brian Current’s prize-winning Seven Heavenly Halls at Maison symphonique de Montréal.

Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre Opens its Call for Scores & Proposals for the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes

By Newswire on 10 February 2025 Canadian Music, Choral, Music Competition, Newswire, Orchestral, Toronto, World Music

Toronto, ON, Canada, 10 February 2025 – The Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre (AMACC) has opened its international call to composers for the (AMP). For its sixth biennial cycle, AMP is seeking scores and proposals for choir and orchestra with optional soloists. The 2026 call is open from 7 February through 2 May 2025. Created in 2014 by Sharon Azrieli CQ for the Azrieli Foundation, AMP celebrates excellence in music composition by offering the largest prize package of its kind in Canada, making it one of the most substantial composition competitions in the world. “We are looking for composers who exhibit the most…

Photo : Enzo Wong

FILMharmonique Orchestra: Liu Fang & Christian Thomas’s collaborative “Dragon” concerto for pipa

By Kristen Whittle on 13 November 2024 World Music

The FILMharmonique Orchestra, under the baton of Co-Artistic Director Francis Choinière, will bridge Eastern and Western musical traditions on Jan. 30 with Butterfly Lovers, a concert that aims to capture the richness and vibrancy of both musical styles. At the heart of the diverse program is the world première of Christian Thomas’s Concerto for Pipa and Orchestra “Dragon.” A true amalgamation of both cultures, as Thomas has created a Western-style orchestral concerto for the traditional Chinese pipa, a pear-shaped plucked string instrument similar to the lute. More importantly, Thomas’s concerto was written for and dedicated to Liu Fang, a Chinese-Canadian…

CD Review | Djely Tapa — Dankoroba, Influente

By Hassan Laghcha on 2 September 2024 CD and Book Reviews, World Music

Dankoroba Djely Tapa, singer-songwriter Disques Nuits d’Afrique, 2024 With her new single Dankoroba (Influente/Woman of Influence), singer-songwriter Djely Tapa gives us a taste of her next album announced for this fall. This opus is part of the development of the musical project of this Montrealer of Malian origin, Radio-Canada revelation and 2020 Juno prize winner of best World Music album for her first record Barokan. Resolutely Afro-futurist, the single reflects this artist’s sustained effort to spark a revival of West African Mandinka music. The mix between traditional and modern (in particular, African blues and electronic experiments) allows her to bring…

CD Review | Continuum — Didem Bașar; I Musici de Montréal

By Hassan Laghcha on 2 September 2024 CD and Book Reviews, World Music

Continuum Didem Bașar, kanun and composer; I Musici de Montréal, Jean-François Rivest, conductor; Patrick Graham, percussion Centre des musiciens du monde, 2024 Montreal kanun (Turkish zither) virtuoso Didem Başar and the chamber orchestra I Musici de Montréal, conducted by Jean-François Rivest with the versatile percussionist Patrick Graham, have just completed a curious musical exploration. The album Continuum, produced by the Centre des musiciens du monde, includes compositions for kanun and string orchestra as well as arrangements of traditional pieces that sum up this artist’s journey between her native Turkey and her adopted city of Montreal, where she found the context…

World music: Fall Season in Montreal

By Hassan Laghcha on 30 August 2024 Montreal, World Music

Place des Arts This fall, Place des Arts’s programming includes a Dance of Sands concert presented by Lebanese artist Aleph and his orchestra on Oct. 21 at Théâtre Maisonneuve. On the menu: a refined blend of jazz, flamenco and oriental music. On Nov. 22, Greek singer Nikos Vertis presents a selection of hits and songs from his latest album at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier. Next year kicks off with a Chinese New Year’s gala on Jan. 12 at Théâtre Maisonneuve, with Feng Hua Xue Yue 2025, directed by Singaporean lyric coloratura soprano Han Yong, accompanied by China-ASEAN host Chen Mingzhen. The celebrations…

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