16 May 2012
The Calgary Philharmonic has launched its 2012-13 season, its seventh under the leadership of music director Roberto Minczuk. It’s a big season, and here are some high points: a two-week genre-crossing festival entitled War and Peace that includes a massive new work, “Afghanistan: Requiem for a Generation”, by Jeffrey Ryan with poet Suzanne Steele; Holst’s [...]
16 May 2012
The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the appointment of Aimé Dontigny as the Head of the Music Section, succeeding Russell Kelley, who retired in December. He is an accomplished electro-acoustic musician and administrator who’s been working at the Council since 2007, and he starts right away. Congratulations, Aimé! Congratulations to the gifted young [...]
16 May 2012
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09 May 2012
The Saskatoon Symphony has announced its 2012-13 season, designed by music director Victor Sawa to show off the orchestra’s artistic capacities and show-case some of the relationships the organization has developed with its new neighbours in the 20th Street district. The line-up includes a six concert Masters Series, four POPS concerts, a chamber series, special [...]
09 May 2012
The Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil has launched a new fundraising event – and they’ve got some high-powered (if slow-moving) help along the way. The orchestra has recently announced that retired Montreal Alouette football star Bruno Heppell will be joining a team of runners led by music director Marc David and made up of board members, [...]
09 May 2012
Peterborough’s Kawartha Youth Orchestra celebrates both Mother’s Day and the final concert of its 10th anniversary season with what they’re describing as “a blow-out season finale…powered by the return of our fiercely-talented alumni from 10 years of marvelous music-making.” The program, led by Music Director Michael Newnham, includes everything from the Pink Panther theme to [...]
09 May 2012
Rob Teehan: a new work by this Toronto-based composer is being premiered Friday, 11 May by Sinfonia Toronto, led by Nurhan Arman. Tim Brady: his Short Stories/Courts métrages for electric guitar, video and orchestra, gets its world premiere on May 9 as part of a program devoted to film music, being performed by the Orchestre [...]
09 May 2012
It’s been a busy few weeks in Windsor, Ontario with the concluding concerts in John Morris Russell’s eleven-year tenure with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra – and a bit of a community celebration to send the Maestro on his way. We’d like to join in and wish JMR all the best in his new adventures with [...]
02 May 2012
This weekend, May 4 and 5, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra gives its hometown audiences an opportunity to hear the program that the orchestra (led by music director Bill Eddins, and featuring soloists Jens Lindemann, trumpet; Angela Cheng, piano; Juliette Kang, violin; and Denise Djokic, cello) will perform as part of this year’s Spring for Music [...]
02 May 2012
Last Saturday night, April 28, Owen Sound’s Georgian Bay Symphony celebrated its 40th anniversary with a concert that included the world premiere of a new work, a return engagement by a locally-raised pianist now studying at Indiana University, and a larger-than-usual orchestra bolstered by alumni returning for the event. The program was conducted by long-time [...]
