Orchestras Canada

Saturday, January 30 and Monday, February 1, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, eight vocal soloists, the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Vancouver Children’s Choir and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir will join together, under VSO music director Bramwell Tovey, to perform Mahler’s massive Symphony No. 8.  The concert will take place at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre.   Notably, this [...]

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Three years ago, the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra launched a guest conductor program, “to inspire and develop talent within the youth orchestra”.  This year, with the launch of Sistema New Brunswick and the opening of the NBYO’s first Sistema Centre in Moncton, the NBYO invited a guest conductor (and product of the famed El Sistema [...]

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Tonight through Sunday, the Hamilton Philharmonic presents the What Next? Festival, a jam-packed three-day exploration of new and innovative work that includes chamber, electro-acoustic and orchestral concerts, lectures and panel discussions, and lots of opportunities to meet the artists involved.  Featured Canadian composers include Gary Kulesha, John Burge, Andrew Staniland, Samy Moussa, Sergio Barroso, Scott [...]

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The Orchestre symphonique de Laval will present an intriguing program on January 27, in celebration of Mozart’s birthday and stellar young talent!  The orchestra, under the leadership of Alain Trudel, has invited a quartet of young soloists from the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal, and a massed choir made up of the Petits Chanteurs [...]

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Earlier this week, CanWest newspapers in Western Canada reported that the Victoria Symphony’s artistic leader, executive director, staff and musicians have all agreed to wage cuts in preparation for the expected $250,000 drop in provincial funding for the 2010-2011 season. “Pretty much everybody paid by the Victoria Symphony has agreed to rescind some of their [...]

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Tomorrow evening, the Regina Symphony with guest performers violinist Raymond Ko, soprano Sophie Bouffard and the South Saskatchewan Youth Orchestra, will perform a colourful program entitled Spanish Flair.  The program will be led by RSO music director Victor Sawa, and the repertoire includes Bizet’s Carmen Suite No. 1 (with the youth orchestra), Khatchaturian’s violin concerto, [...]

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The Lethbridge Symphony has moved to a bright and spacious new office, and held a grand opening media launch for the new space on January 21.  The LSO can now be found at Suite 101, 410 Stafford Drive South, Lethbridge AB  T1J 2L2.  But the LSO’s home on the web is still in the same [...]

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Arts Consultants Canada/Consultants canadiens en arts (ACCA) was founded in 2006 as a professional association of consultants who provide services to arts and cultural organizations.  ACCA’s purpose is to promote excellence in arts consulting.  Members are selected through peer assessment and must meet established standards in arts consulting and abide by the association’s Code of [...]

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HRSDC opens EI Special Benefits to the Self-Employed The federal government has announced that Royal Assent has been given to the Fairness for the Self-Employed Act. This is legislation that the cultural sector has been pressing for, for many years. Self-employed Canadians will be able to voluntarily opt into the EI program effective January 31, [...]

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CINARS, the Conférence Internationale des arts de la scène, is presenting three days of workshops on topics related to international touring in Montreal in February.  The workshops will run February 3 to 5, and will cover such topics as International touring: a choice or an artistic necessity?, Market Focus – European Union, and Market Focus [...]

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