Orchestras Canada

The Ottawa Symphony Orchestra has announced the appointment of Peter Feldman as its new General Manager, succeeding Bryan Croft. Peter was the founding executive director of CAPACOA, the Canadian arts presenting association. The Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra has announced the appointment of Kelly Rooney as its new Development Manager. A Thunder Bay native, Kelly is [...]

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The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony has announced that Steven Sitarski, concertmaster of the orchestra for the past 15 seasons, has resigned in order to pursue other career directions.

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We send our very best wishes to Peter Herrndorf , CEO of the National Arts Centre, who is currently undergoing cancer treatment. Mr. Herrndorf will take a planned medical leave, starting in April. During that leave, long-time Managing Director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Christopher Deacon, will serve as interim CEO. Symphony Nova Scotia [...]

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Congratulations to the five young pianists – all under the age of 25 – who have been selected as finalists in the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra’s annual Concerto Competition: Anita Pari, Robin Pan, Phillip Cho, Sharon Ding, and Stanley Li. Selected through competitive audition, the five musicians will perform with the OCO (led by music director [...]

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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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