Orchestras Canada

Late last week, the Ontario Arts Council announced the winner of the 2012 Oscar Morawetz Award for Excellence in Music Performance: Toronto-based cellist Shauna Rolston. The $20,000 award was presented on January 30 at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival, where Ms Rolston performed the world premiere of a new cello concert by WSO [...]

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Taron Cochrane, Creative Marketing & Promotions Manager at the Regina Symphony Orchestra, is responsible for the RSO’s highly engaging social media presence – and he was recently featured in a podcast entitled “Nothing’s impossible for the Regina Symphony”. You can listen to Taron’s thoughts here. Bryan Croft, who has served as general manager of the [...]

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Conductor Alain Trudel, already serving as the music director of Orchestra London and the Orchestre symphonique de Laval and conductor of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, has just been announced as the new conductor of the University of Western Ontario Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra, effective September 2012. Speaking about the appointment, Orchestra London executive [...]

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Congratulations to the outstanding Canadians with connections to Canada’s orchestras who were named to the Order of Canada at the end of December. They include mezzo soprano Catherine Robbin; cellist, conductor and founder of I Musici de Montreal,Yuli Turovsky; and super-volunteer Ana P. Lopes, a recent chair of the board of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. [...]

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Congratulations to the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, which has recently announced the appointment of Fabien Gabel as its new music director. Maestro Gabel succeeds Yoav Talmi, and will begin his duties with the OSQ in the fall of 2012. A native of France, he is a regular guest conductor with a number of outstanding European [...]

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Last Friday–December 2—marked the last day of work for Russell Kelley as Head of the Music Section at the Canada Council prior to retirement. Describing his years at the Canada Council as “one of the most exciting and satisfying periods of my career in music”, Russell will be returning to his work as a songwriter [...]

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The National Arts Centre Orchestra has just named Alain Trudel as its new Principal Youth and Family Conductor. In this role, Alain Trudel will work closely with the National Arts Centre Music Education team to develop the Orchestra’s Student Matinees and ‘TD Family Adventures with the NAC Orchestra’ concerts, and he will be the principal [...]

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Congratulations to Joseph Lanza, who celebrates his 25 seasons as concertmaster of Orchestra London this year!

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The Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra has just announced the appointment of Colin Clarke as its new music director – only the third person to hold the position since the orchestra’s founding almost 50 years ago. He succeeds cellist and conductor Paul McCulloch. Mr. Clarke began his duties with the HPYO on October 31, and will [...]

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The Sudbury Symphony has just announced the appointment of Erika Nielsen as its new principal cellist and teacher at the SSO School of Music. She’s a graduate of both Queen’s & the Glenn Gould School, and she’s performed with chamber ensembles, orchestras AND Kanye West! The Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal has announced that Marie-Josée Desrochers [...]

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