Orchestras Canada

Although we’re up to our eyeballs in preparation for the National Orchestras Meetings in Winnipeg June 20-23, we’ve also got a few other things on the go at Orchestras Canada these days. It’s time to update Orchestras Canada’s Inventory of Orchestra Music Libraries (IOML)! For those not familiar with the IOML, it contains a comprehensive [...]

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On June 16 and 17 in Ottawa, and June 20 in Montréal, the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Orchestre Métropolitain will join forces – along with eight soloists and a 296-voice mass choir – under the leadership of OM music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, for Gustav Mahler‘s Symphony No. 8. The Ottawa performances mark the [...]

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The Toronto Summer Music Academy and Festival has announced that artistic director Agnes Grossmann will leave her post at the end of the 2010 season to pursue her international conducting and concert schedule. At the same time, the festival has announced the appointment of violist Douglas McNabney as her successor, effective August 14. “As founding [...]

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Clara Miller, CEO of the US-based Nonprofit Finance Fund, has an article in the most recent issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly that’s a must-read for anyone trying to make sense of the economic downturn’s impact on non profit organizations. The article, entitled “The Four Horsemen of the Non-Profit Financial Apocalypse”, is a provocative dissection of [...]

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Next Wednesday, June 16 at 3:45 p.m. Eastern, the League of American Orchestras will be live streaming the Opening Session of its national conference – and the topics being discussed will have relevance to orchestras all over North America. From what we’ve been seeing on the League’s pre-conference weblog, the discussion is likely to be [...]

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The Edmonton Symphony has recently learned that it’s the second Canadian orchestra ever to receive an invitation to perform at the new Spring for Music Festival at New York’s fabled Carnegie Hall. The ESO will make the trip in May 2012, as part of the festival’s 2nd annual season; the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal will [...]

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The Victoria Symphony has launched a contest to find the design for this year’s limited edition Victoria Symphony Splash t-shirt. These T-shirts will be sold to the public to commemorate Symphony Splash – the orchestra’s massive annual summer concert performed on a floating stage in Victoria’s Inner Harbour – with proceeds benefitting the event. “We [...]

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The National Arts Centre has released details of its summer 2010 music season, featuring “something for everyone – from big names to small ensembles – as well as orchestral, choral, and chamber music concerts, opera, pops, and jazz.” The program runs from June 12 to July 28 at the NAC and a number of other [...]

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The Foundation of the Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil has announced that its fourth annual “pâtés chinois” (shepherd’s pie) fundraising event has netted $57,000 – funds that will be used to support the orchestra’s educational programs. The event is a partnership with celebrated Montérégien and Montréalais restaurants and their chefs, who do their best to turn [...]

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The Windsor Symphony Orchestra has announced that its recording of Aurora by composer Jordan Nobles has been selected by the CBC to represent Canada at the 57th session of the International Rostrum of Composers in Lisbon, Portugal. “This is a wonderful honour,” said Nobles, when informed that his piece had been selected. “We’re very proud [...]

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