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Classical Composition Meets American Idol in THE EAR

Posted on January 29, 2016 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

Leading a movement to reboot mainstream classical music, The Ear returns, following its boisterous debut in October. Provoking an alternative to frequently-alienating “new music,” The Ear is a concert, a rowdy night out, and a competition for mainstream classical composers. The brainchild of composer Alf Bishai, The Ear asks audiences the simple question: Do you want to hear it again?…

Connected to the World! Announcing the Montreal Chamber Music Festival’s 21st Season

Posted on January 26, 2016 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

The Montreal Chamber Music Festival celebrates its 21st season with a thrilling musical voyage around the world – from Canada to Salzburg to Havana to Israel and beyond – presenting a spectacular array of concerts and premieres. Today, Festival Founder and Executive Director Denis Brott C.M., in the company of Ben Heppner and 2016 Festival ambassador Danièle Henkel, announced the…

If Music Be the Food of Love ~ Cellist Matt Haimovitz on Tour with Voice

Posted on January 15, 2016 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

This February, cellist Matt Haimovitz, known as a “remarkable virtuoso” who “never turns in a predictable performance” (The New Yorker), launches a new collaboration with the acclaimed UK trio Voice in If Music Be the Food of Love, a Shakespeare-themed concert program spanning more than eight centuries – from Hildegard of Bingen to Leonard Cohen. Among the works exploring the…

Montreal’s Dynamic 9-Piece String Band collectif9 Releases Debut Album, Volksmobiles

Posted on January 14, 2016 by shiragilbert | 1 Comments

Montreal’s cutting-edge classical string band collectif9 has been gathering steam since its 2011 debut, attracting diverse audiences in clubs, outdoor festivals, and concert halls across Quebec and beyond. Featuring both original scores and new arrangements – often with lights, staging, and amplification more commonly seen at rock acts – collectif9 heralds a new age in genre-bending classical performance. Now, following…

Luna Pearl Woolf’s “Better Gods” Debuts at Washington National Opera January 8 & 9

Posted on November 30, 2015 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

Better Gods, a new opera by composer Luna Pearl Woolf, will have its world premiere at the Kennedy Center on January 8 and 9 presented by Washington National Opera, Francesca Zambello, Artistic Director. The story of the last queen of Hawaii and the fall of the Hawaiian monarchy, with a libretto by Caitlin Vincent, the one-hour opera is part of…

Montreal Chamber Music Festival Celebrity Series On Sale!

Posted on November 20, 2015 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

The Montreal Chamber Music Festival, entering its 21st season, is pleased to announce that all four concerts in its pre-Festival Celebrity Series are on sale Monday, November 23 at 12 noon at the Place des Arts and Bourgie Hall box offices. The series includes the delightful Salzburg Marionette Theater presenting The Sound of Music, appearing in Montreal for the first time…

VivaVoce, Montreal’s Acclaimed Chamber Choir, Presents its 17th Season

Posted on October 30, 2015 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

Montreal’s VivaVoce announces its 17th season, a rich and diverse program of three concerts, all taking place at Salle Bourgie, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Praised for their “compelling mastery” (Le Devoir), and “ideal balance” (American Record Guide), the 12-voice professional chamber choir performs music from Renaissance composer Cipriano de Rore (on his 500th birthday!) to cantatas by J.S. Bach…

Sacred Echoes: A Kristallnacht Commemoration

Posted on October 13, 2015 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

Congregation Shaar Hashomayim and the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre present Sacred Echoes, a multimedia musical cantata for two cantors, narrator, orchestra, and children’s choir. A journey back in time to the once-vibrant Jewish communities of pre-World War II Germany, Sacred Echoes features lush symphonic arrangements of masterworks of the German liturgical repertoire alongside dramatic virtual reconstructions of Germany’s majestic synagogues,…

New Live Recording of The Creation, Haydn’s Crowning Masterpiece, from the Handel and Haydn Society

Posted on October 2, 2015 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

“The chorus, brilliantly prepared and wielding phenomenally precise diction, outdid even its usual high standards … From the opening through the final, buoyant chorus, Christophers emphasized both the music’s dramatic contours and its almost boundless well of character.” – The Boston Globe CORO proudly presents a new recording of Haydn’s TheCreation (COR16135) from Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn…

Matt Haimovitz Unveils “A Moveable Feast”: Bach and the Unexpected

Posted on September 16, 2015 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

“This ferociously talented cellist bring his megawatt sound and uncommon expressive gifts to a vast variety of styles …” – The New York Times, September 2015 NEW RECORDING: J.S. BACH The Cello Suites According to Anna Magdalena Fifteen years after his pivotal first recording of the Cello Suites by J.S. Bach, which launched the newborn Oxingale Records, Matt Haimovitz returns…

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