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Montreal Leads the Nation for Music Monday / Lundi en Musique!

Posted on April 20, 2015 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

Montreal takes the lead for this year’s Music Monday, Canada’s annual nationwide celebration of the power of music in our schools, with a showcase at Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme, Place des Arts on Monday, May 4, from 12-1pm EST. The musical extravaganza is free and open to the public. Music Monday Anthem Search winner, high school student Connor Ross, will be…

The Montreal Chamber Music Festival Presents The Emerson String Quartet

Posted on April 9, 2015 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

“The performances were everything we have come to expect from this superb ensemble: technically resourceful, musically insightful, cohesive, full of character and always interesting.” — The New York Times Universally acclaimed as one of the best string quartets in the world, the Emerson Quartet’s unparalleled list of achievements over three decades includes more than thirty acclaimed recordings and nine Grammy…

VivaVoce Presents SoundFX

Posted on April 2, 2015 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

Vocal Effects from Birdsong, Drums and Hunting Horns to Lovers’ Sighs Enliven Madrigals Performed by Montreal’s Acclaimed Professional Chamber Choir VivaVoce proclaims the long-awaited springtime with a riot of acoustical vocal effects in Sound FX on Sunday, April 26 at 3:00 pm at Redpath Hall. Artistic Director Peter Schubert leads the 12-voice ensemble in a programme featuring Renaissance madrigals by…

MATT HAIMOVITZ: BACH ON TOUR

Posted on February 26, 2015 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

Fifteen years after his first, ground-breaking recording and Listening-Room Tour of Bach’s Six Suites for Solo Cello, Grammy-nominated cellist Matt Haimovitz renews his lifelong exploration of these beloved works in preparation for a new recording project. In 2000, with the recording that launched the artist’s own Oxingale Records, Haimovitz embarked on an extensive tour of North America, taking Bach’s cello…

Louise Bessette Awarded the Prix Opus for Interprète de l’Année / Artist of the Year

Posted on February 6, 2015 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

At a Gala event on February 1 at Salle Bourgie, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Le Conseil québécois de la musique declared pianist Louise Bessette the winner of the Prix Opus for Interprète de l’Année / Artist of the Year. Recognized around the world as an exceptional pianist, and as a pre-eminent interpreter of the music of our time in…

THE AZRIELI MUSIC PROJECT: Two $50,000 Prizes for New Orchestral Jewish Music

Posted on January 21, 2015 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

The Azrieli Music Project (AMP), established to celebrate, foster and create opportunities for the performance of high quality new orchestral music on a Jewish theme or subject, is delighted to launch two important new prizes: The Azrieli Prize in Jewish Music, an international prize for a recently composed or performed work by a living composer; and The Azrieli Commissioning Competition,…

Musical Adventurers Matt Haimovitz and Christopher O’Riley Reunite for BEETHOVEN, Period., an Illuminating Traversal of Beethoven’s Seminal Sonatas for Pianoforte and Cello

Posted on January 5, 2015 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

Matt Haimovitz and Christopher O’Riley, two fearless musicians who have bonded over common musical passions of wide range and scope, reunite for BEETHOVEN, Period., an illuminating voyage back to the birth of the cello/piano genre with Beethoven’s Sonatas for Pianoforte and Cello. Grammy-nominated Matt Haimovitz, praised as a musical visionary in pushing the boundaries of classical music performance, and O’Riley, acclaimed for his…

DCINY Presents The Music of Karl Jenkins, Featuring The Peacemakers and Two U.S. Premieres

Posted on December 22, 2014 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

Distinguished Concerts International New York is proud to present its annual concert featuring the supremely beautiful and inspirational music of Karl Jenkins. One of the most prolific and frequently-performed composers in the world today, Jenkins continues to spread a musical message of peace and unity, impeccably encapsulated in his multi-lingual large-scale work, The Peacemakers, which draws texts from such luminaries…

Glorious New Live Recording of MESSIAH from the Handel and Haydn Society as it Celebrates its Bicentennial Season

Posted on November 11, 2014 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

THIS BICENTENNIAL SEASON MARKS H+H’S 400TH PERFORMANCE OF MESSIAH AND 161ST CONSECUTIVE YEAR PERFORMING THE WORK CORO proudly presents a new live recording of Handel’s Messiah (COR16125) from Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society, in celebration of its Bicentennial season. Recorded live at Symphony Hall in Boston, the new recording showcases the enduring musical excellence of America’s oldest…

Belgian Violinist Michael Guttman Returns to Montreal For Two Enchanting Chamber Music Concerts at La Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur

Posted on November 3, 2014 by shiragilbert | 0 Comments

“A violinist with an incredible wealth of tone colors, with an exquisitely creamy sound … rich-toned and impassioned …” – The New York Times Mahler, Dvorak & Faure Quartets | Thursday, November 13 at 8pm with Pemi Paull, viola; Paul Marleyn, cello; and David Jalbert, piano ****** Pärt, Beethoven, Vieuxtemps & Brahms | Sunday, November 16 at 3:30pm…

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