Orchestras Canada

The Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil will kick off its 25th season with an outdoor concert on August 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Parc de la Cité in Saint-Hubert – a site able to accommodate up to 20,000 audience members! The concert, led by OSL music director Marc David, will feature tenor Marc Hervieux and [...]

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At its Annual General Meeting on July 15, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO) announced a surplus of $3,500 for the 2009/2010 season. “This is a credit to our hard working and dedicated team including our musicians, our board and our management,” said Board Chair and President Dorothy Dobbie. “The musicians and the maestro receive credit [...]

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Congratulations to Canadian composers Richard Gibson, Eileen Padgett, Suzanne Hébert Tremblay, John Palmer and Arsenio Girón, each of whom had substantial new works read by the National Arts Centre Orchestra (conducted by Gary Kulesha) in public performances at the NAC earlier this month. Mme. Thérèse Boutin, Directrice generale of the Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivieres, has [...]

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If you’d like to sharpen your ability to manage finances in tough times… Thanks to the MetLife Foundation, The League of American Orchestras has announced a new partnership with the Nonprofit Finance Fund, a US-based organization with significant expertise in the area of non-profi finance. Webinars and print materials are already available via the League’s [...]

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Orchestra News/Info Orchestres will appear every two weeks this summer, more or less. We’ll be posting updates today (July 9), July 23, August 6, August 20 – and will return to a regular weekly schedule after Labour Day.

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We admit it: in the transition to our summer publication schedule, we missed listing some summer concerts offered by member orchestras and others. Our apologies to the Winnipeg Symphony (which presented a series of free concerts in Winnipeg and Kenora, June 25 to July 4 – culminating in a performance for Her Majesty the Queen, [...]

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The second of Orchestras Canada’s two summer students officially started work this week, thanks to the Ontario Ministry of Culture’s Summer Experience Program. OC welcomes Mike Romaniak, a composition and saxophone student at the University of Toronto, who will be with us for a total of seven weeks this summer. Mike’s task? To turn the professional [...]

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M. Guy Morneau, Chair of the board of Les Violons du Roy, has announced the retirement of Mme Louise Labelle, who has served as the orchestra’s Directrice generale since 2007, effective June 14. She will be succeeded by Mme Astrid Chouinard. The Sudbury Symphony Orchestra has announced the appointment of Elizabeth Aman-Hume as the new [...]

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Ketchum Canada has released the latest in its quarterly Philanthropic Trends e-newsletter, with the most recent issue dedicated to new technology use by Canadian charities. You can find it here. Charitable organizations in BC and Ontario wrestling with the implications of the new Harmonized Sales Tax now have access to new resources developed by the Canada Revenue [...]

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