Orchestras Canada

The annual Fort Macleod International Festival (which runs from May 27 to 31) is now in its fifth year – and it’s branching out to other communities in Southern Alberta with an aim of bringing chamber music to audiences in unique and fresh ways. Venues this year include The Galt Museum in Lethbridge (site of [...]

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The organizers of Culture Days, a collaborative pan-Canadian volunteer movement to raise the awareness,accessibility, participation and engagement of all Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities, are hard at work, recruiting activity organizers and preparing communities across Canada to host arts and culture celebrations in September 2010. If you are considering registering [...]

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Orchestra News sends condolences to the many, many members of the Victoria BC musical community whose lives were touched by János Sándor, music director for the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra and the University of Victoria Orchestra and Chorus. Mr. Sandor died last week after a lengthy battle with cancer, at the age of 76. He [...]

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The Sooke Philharmonic Society has announced the results of its 5th Annual Don Chrysler Concerto Competition for Young Musicians, held on May 1st at the Philip T. Young Recital Hall, University of Victoria. The competition adjudicators were Marc Destrubé, Ross Ingstrup and Gordon Macpherson. The 1st prize winner was Phillip Manning, violin. Phillip performed Violin [...]

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The International Women’s Brass Conference is taking place in Toronto from June 16-20, and it’s a wonderfully varied program, with something to delight and amaze women AND men, professionals, students AND amateurs, brass players – and anyone else interested in good music, well-played. We’re particularly excited to hear Fergus McWilliam, the Canadian-trained hornist who has [...]

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We’ve got a couple of recommendations for you this week. The first recommendation comes to us courtesy of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) and it’s a remarkably pertinent document given the current discussion related to compensation and disclosure practices at Canadian charities. The publication is entitled Increasing Public Scrutiny of Not-for-Profit Organizations: questions [...]

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Following tours to Italy, Germany, Québec, Mexico and the United States earlier this season, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra is now well into its fifth international tour for the 2009/2010 season, a nine-city European itinerary with stops in Belgium, Holland and Spain. While in Europe, Tafelmusik will perform repertoire by Mozart and Haydn with long-time collaborator, conductor [...]

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We were charmed to learn that the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra’s Sistema NB program is benefiting from two ‘Teachers in Residence’ from Venezuela – Pedro Moya (violin) and Pamela Arce (cello).  During a three-week stay in New Brunswick, they have been teaching every day in the Sistema centre, giving individual lessons to Sistema children, offering [...]

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For the second year in a row, carefully-selected students from seven of the province of Quebec’s renowned Conservatoires (located in Val-d’Or, Gatineau, Montréal, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Rimouski and Saguenay) will form a 95-member orchestra and present three concerts on tour.  Following an intensive rehearsal period, they will perform in Montréal on May 27, Val d’Or on [...]

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On Saturday, May 29, the Association des orchestres de jeunes de la Montérégie (AOJM) will celebrate its 35th anniversary with a massive concert at the Théâtre Maisonneuve at Montreal’s Place des Arts.  The program will feature the three ensembles of the AOJM, namely:  the Ensemble Prélude, conducted by Zoé Dumais, the Orchestre à cordes junior [...]

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