Orchestras Canada

Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra – Principal Oboe Deadline for applications: August 31, 2009

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In recent weeks, we’ve been stock-piling media releases from Canadian orchestras planning summer concerts and events. Here’s a quick run-down for you. Les Violons du Roy, under the leadership of Music Director Bernard Labadie, will perform at the opening concert at the Festival International du Domaine Forget, on Saturday, June 20. The program will include [...]

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The New Brunswick Youth Orchestra (NBYO) is hoping to be the latest musical organization to align itself with the success of Venezuela’s “El Sistema” program. Last week, officials from the NBYO were in Venezuala to research what is becoming known as one of the world’s great musical and social success stories for young people. El [...]

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Earlier this week, the findings from the 2007 Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating were released, providing a portrait of activities affecting Canadian community groups (including orchestras), and identifying important trends in donations, volunteering and helping fellow Canadians directly. In 2007, Canadians donated a total of $10 billion, an increase of 12% or $1.1 [...]

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Cultural Careers Council Ontario (CCCO) has announced a brand new internship program, funded in part by Service Canada’s Career Focus, Youth Employment Strategy Program: The Fundraising and Marketing Internship Program. This half year program for emerging arts administrators has key components of CCCO’s respected Income Managers Program, and concentrates on marketing and fundraising skills, with [...]

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The Orchestre symphonique de Québec has announced that its music director, Yoav Talmi, has been named an officer of the Order of Québec (Ordre national du Québec).  Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra composer in residence Vincent Ho has had a work selected by the CBC for performance at the International Rostrum of Composers, an annual celebration of [...]

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With both pride and trepidation, Orchestras Canada is introducing a new website today. I am proud, because I • love the clean new look, which complements the new logo developed for Orchestras Canada by designer Blair Francey of bfdesign.com; • am excited about our ability to update the site regularly, all by ourselves – and [...]

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Orchestra Toronto has appointed conductor Dr. Danielle Lisboa as their new Apprentice Conductor.  Dr. Lisboa, originally from Brazil, did advanced studies in conducting at the Eastman School of Music and has been resident in Toronto for the last year. Arts consultant Micheline McKay, former executive director of OC’s partner service organization Opera.ca, has been appointed [...]

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Nova Scotians go to the polls on June 9, and – thanks to the hard work of a group of Halifax arts leaders – the arts have been on the agenda during the campaign.  Symphony Nova Scotia CEO Erika Beatty has sent us a set of questions and answers posed by Halifax alternative weekly The [...]

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June 15 is the deadline for nominations for the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for lifetime artistic achievement or voluntarism in the performing arts.  The Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards recognize lifetime artistic achievement in the fields of theatre, dance, classical music, popular music, film, and radio and television broadcasting as well as for voluntarism [...]

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