Orchestras Canada

In mid-July, Orchestras Canada posted an opening for volunteer book reviewers on our Facebook page. The idea?  That we could recruit people with particular perspectives to review books of potential interest to developing AND established Canadian musicians, strengthen our dialogue with friends and supporters, and—as a side benefit—get some great content for the OC blog, [...]

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The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’s Symphony Under the Sky festivel celebrates its 17th year with a long weekend of concerts and events at Edmonton’s Hawrelak Park on Labour Day weekend – September 2-5. The 6-concert event includes familiar classics, Broadway and film scores, authentic Canadian legend Ian Tyson, and a family program (performed without orchestra) by [...]

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While the sixty or so people who attended Orchestras Canada’s national meetings in June, and the thirty-plus delegates at the recent conference of the Organization of Canadian Symphony Musicians earlier this month may feel they have the inside track, everyone else might like to know that the VSO School of Music will hold its inaugural [...]

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For the seventh straight season, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra will open its season with residencies in two Northern Ontario communities. This year, the TSO (led by conductor Alain Trudel and featuring soprano Shannon Mercer and the intrepid members of Platypus Theatre) will present concerts and educational programs in Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie from September [...]

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Meanwhile, Tafelmusik kicks off its 2011/12 season with a pair of high-profile, prestigious engagements before launching its Toronto season on September 21. The Tafelmusik Orchestra travels to Irsee, Germany from September 2 to 4, 2011 for the Klang und Raum Festival under the Festival’s Artistic Director Bruno Weil. 2011 marks the Festival’s final edition and [...]

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…the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal has posted a lovely series of photographs of its recent tour to the Edinburgh Festival. You can see the city and the orchestra at work and at play, here.

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Sometimes we get media releases that simply make us happy – and so it was with this recent announcement from the Kamloops Symphony about a free concert they’re presenting on September 10 at the Sagebrush Theatre. The concert is in honour of the late Dick Dickens, “the respected leader of a very successful band and [...]

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Our colleagues at CAPACOA (the national association for Canadian arts presenters) will be holding their national conference in Toronto from November 3-7 – and this year, they’re issuing a particular call for emerging and mid-career presenters, agents, managers and other arts professionals to take part in The Succession Plan (TSP), a program designed to strengthen [...]

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Nominations for the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for 2012 are being accepted from now until September 23, 2011. The process is simple and you can do it online. A letter of recommendation and a short biography of the nominee are all that are required for your favourite Canadian performing artist to be in the [...]

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At their recent meeting in Vancouver, delegates to the Organization of Canadian Symphony Musicians’ annual gatheringtook the opportunity to thank and celebrate outgoing OCSM President Francine Schutzman, who has stepped down after eight years as chair and a remarkable 30 years of involvement with OCSM.  She will be missed – and not least by her [...]

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