Orchestras Canada

On Friday, March 8, Sinfonia Toronto (led by music director Nurhan Arman) will give the world premiere at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio of a new work for viola and chamber orchestra by Kingston composer Marjan Mozetich, written especially for violist Rivka Golani. The program also features piano soloist Angela Cheng in Mozart’s Concerto No. 9, “Jeunehomme”. For more information, please visit sinfoniatoronto.com.

On Friday, December 14, Sinfonia Toronto (led by music director Nurhan Arman) will present another concert in its series at the Glenn Gould Studio. The program includes a pair of Canadian works, along with music by Borne, Ennio Morricone, and Beethoven: the world premiere of Chan Ka Nin’s Strings Together, and John Burge’s Forgotten Dreams. For more information about Sinfonia Toronto, please visit sinfoniatoronto.com.

On Friday, October 12, Ottawa’s Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra opens its 2012-13 season at St. Andrew’s Church in a varied program that features music for cello and orchestra, and the world premiere of a jazz-influenced work by Ottawa bassist and composer John Geggie. The cello soloist is Denise Djokic, and she’ll be featured in works by Leopold Hoffman, and Canadian John Burge.

October 13 and 14, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra opens its Masterworks series in a new venue, with a new work on the program, and with a music director candidate on the podium. The concert marks the WSO’s main series debut in the Capital Theatre, a recently-refurbished heritage building in Windsor’s core. Cellist Shauna Rolston will give the Windsor premiere of a new concerto for cello and orchestra written for her by Vincent Ho and co-commissioned by the Windsor and Winnipeg Symphonies, and conductor Kevin Rhodes (Music Director of both the Springfield MA Symphony Orchestra and the Traverse Symphony (MI) Orchestra) will lead. Thanks to the SOCAN Foundation, Vincent Ho will attend the performances and is in town the week prior for presentations and workshops in area schools.

On October 14, the Orchestre symphonique de Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean (led by music director Jacques Clement) opens its season with a concert celebrating the art of tango, featuring Tango Boreal (Denis Plante, bandoneon; David Jacques, guitar) and music by Piazzola, De Falla, and Marquez. The concert opens the third edition of Festival Tang-aux-foins, which runs from 14-21 October. For more information about the orchestra, please visit lorchestre.org. For more information about the Festival, please visit tangauxfoins.com.

Toronto’s Esprit Orchestra opens its 30th anniversary season on October 14 at Koerner Hall, at the same time as it helps to launch R. Murray Schafer’s new autobiography, My Life on Earth and Elsewhere. The program includes works by Schafer, John Rea, Alexina Louie, Xenakis, and Colin McPhee, many of which have featured prominently in earlier seasons.

Sinfonia Toronto opens its 14th season on October 27 (under the leadership of founder Nurhan Arman) a few miles north of its usual concert home, the Glenn Gould Studio. This year’s opening concert will take place at the George Weston Recital Hall of the Toronto Centre for the Arts, and will feature 2011 Tchaikovsky competition winner, cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan.

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Sinfonia Toronto has announced the appointment of three violinists to its core roster. They include first violinists Dezso Salasovics and Tanya Charles, and second violinist Alex Toskov.

AUDITIONS

The National Ballet of Canada
Principal Percussion
Application deadline/Date limite : August 27 août 2012

The National Ballet of Canada
Assistant Principal 2nd Violin
Application deadline/Date limite : August 20 août 2012

Sinfonia Toronto
Section First Violin (1 year only)
Section Second Violin (core position)
Application deadline/Date limite : September 5 septembre 2012

ADMINISTRATIVE / ADMINISTRATIFS

Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Assistant Music Librarian
Application deadline/Date limite : July 16 juillet 2012

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Director of Educational Outreach
Application deadline/Date limite : June 28 juin 2012

Honens International Piano Competition
Corporate Development Associate
Application deadline/Date limite : July 13 juillet 2012

Rob Teehan: a new work by this Toronto-based composer is being premiered Friday, 11 May by Sinfonia Toronto, led by Nurhan Arman.

Tim Brady: his Short Stories/Courts métrages for electric guitar, video and orchestra, gets its world premiere on May 9 as part of a program devoted to film music, being performed by the Orchestre symphonique de Laval led by music director Alain Trudel, with the composer as soloist.

Airat Ichmouratov: this busy conductor, clarinettist and composer leads the world premiere of his own Three Romances for viola, harp and strings with I Musici de Montréal on May 16 and 17.

The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony launched its 2012-13 season last week – more than 70 performances across 8 distinct series, beginning with an opening night celebration of Kitchener’s centennial with performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Additional season highlights include a Tchaikovsky Festival, a unique Mahler Symphony No. 5 concert, a holiday concert with Canadian pop superstars Barenaked Ladies, Bugs Bunny at the Symphony and an Intersections program saluting Indian music, Bollywood and Beyond. The season marks Edwin Outwater’s sixth as music director, and he promises “an adventure for both the audience and the orchestra.”

Sinfonia Toronto, the intrepid Toronto-based string chamber orchestra led by Nurhan Arman, has announced its 14th season, a 7-concert series at the Glenn Gould Studio (with a gala season opener at the George Weston Recital Hall). ST regularly features stellar Canadian and international soloists, and next year is no exception: soloists on the season include Tchaikovsky competition gold medallist, cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, pianists Angela Cheng, Dmitri Levkovich, and Anastasia Rizikov (a Toronto prodigy who won the adult level of the Rotary International Competition in Spain at the age of 11) – and many others. As well, the orchestral will continue its Composer-in-Residence program, next year with distinguished Toronto composer Chan Ka Nin.

On Friday, November 18, Sinfonia Toronto (a professional chamber orchestra, led by conductor Nurhan Arman) continues its Toronto series with an intriguing program at the Glenn Gould Studio. The concert features pianist Ratimir Martinovic and bass clarinettist Jeff Reilly in lyrical new works by Torontonians Rob Teehan (Zephyr) and Christos Hatzis (Extreme Unction: In memoriam Gustav Ciamaga), along with a Mozart piano concerto and an arrangement for string orchestra of Beethoven’s Quartet in c minor, Op. 18, No. 4. For more information, please visit sinfoniatoronto.com.

ADMINISTRATIVE / ADMINISTRATIF
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir
Development Associate
Application deadline/Date limite : June 15 juin 2011

AUDITIONS
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Concertmaster/Premier violon (National)
Application deadline/Date limite : August 23 août 2011

Sinfonia Toronto
Section Violin
Application deadline/Date limite : June 28 juin 2011

While major dates and events on the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal’s 2011-12 season were announced last fall by Music Director Kent Nagano, the OSM has now confirmed all of the details of its first season in its thrilling new venue, l’Adresse symphonique. We don’t have space to summarize the season in all its richness, but the design of the opening concert is a foretaste of a varied and remarkable season of music.

Here’s what the media release says: The concert is “a great musical celebration conceived as a crescendo. The first sounds heard in the new hall will be those of Québec, with works exemplifying three generations of Québec compositional creation. The human voice will first fill the air with Jesus, erbarme dich, a choral work by Claude Vivier, an essential ambassador of Québec musical sound. One of the oldest of instruments, the flute, will be heard next when Timothy Hutchins (OSM principal flute) performs Envol: Alléluia for solo flute by Gilles Tremblay, a true pioneer in the repertoire of Québec. The Orchestra’s own sound will then take wing in a premiere commissioned by the OSM from young contemporary composer Julien Bilodeau. In addition, short unpublished texts by authors that include Wajdi Mouawad, Marie-Claire Blais and Joséphine Bacon will echo Schiller’s “Ode to Joy.” Kent Nagano will then conduct Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, that monumental work that changed the course of the history of music. For the occasion the Orchestra will share the stage with a brilliant ensemble of soloists made up of soprano Erin Wall (Canada), mezzo-soprano Mihoko Fujimura (Japan), tenor Simon O’Neill (New Zealand) and bass Mikhail Petrenko (Russia), while Toronto’s Tafelmusik Chamber Choir joins the OSM Chorus. So that the broadest possible audience can attend this memorable event, the first of the opening concerts, on September 7, will be broadcast on television, radio and the Internet by Radio-Canada, the official broadcaster of the OSM. The performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony by Kent Nagano and the OSM will be recorded for release on disc (Sony/Analekta).”

And, yes, there is much, much more over the course of the season. You can find out more, here: www.osm.ca.

Sinfonia Toronto, a professional chamber orchestra led by music director Nurhan Arman, has announced its 2011-12 season, a 7-concert series at the Glenn Gould Studio. Canadian and international soloists are featured, and Canadian works include music by Malcolm Forsyth, and Glenn Buhr and world premieres by Rob Teehan and Christos Hatzis. While the later 20th and 21st centuries are well-represented, the orchestra’s repertoire ranges from Vivaldi through Mozart, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, and more. For more information, please visit www.sinfoniatoronto.com.

Last Friday, Symphony Nova Scotia hosted a free concert to announce its 2011-12 season, described in the orchestra’s media release as “yet another season of classical heavyweights, Canadian and Maritime content, and collaborations with local artists and bands.” The orchestra’s capabilities in a range of music genres are well documented – and Music Director Bernhard Gueller notes that “we have exciting artists like Anton Kuerti and Julian Kuerti together, brilliant violinist Roman Simovic, and Hawksley Workman. We also have an unusual combination – the National Arts Centre Orchestra and Pinchas Zukerman together with Symphony Nova Scotia. Plus, there is the Fauré Requiem, the Music of Pink Floyd, Dinuk Wijeratne’s new tabla concerto, and 27 Symphony Nova Scotia premieres (including three world premieres).” www.symphonynovascotia.ca