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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Show One Presents Hvorostovsky and Radvanovsky in Toronto March 20

A Show One Presentation Saturday, March 20 at Roy Thomson Hall

HVOROSTOVSKY& RADVANOVSKY: INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTARS

IN AN ITALIAN OPERA SPECTACULAR

He has been called the supreme singing actor with a virtuoso display of smoky tone and sensual, forthright phrasing. With her rich, tremulous soprano voice and affecting intensity, she is hailed as the top Verdi soprano of our age.

Show One Productions presents the first joint North American concert by two of the worlds operatic superstars, baritone DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY and soprano SONDRA RADVANOVSKY, Saturday, March 20, 2010, 8 p.m. at Roy Thomson Hall.

An Italian Opera Spectacular features an evening of passionate arias and duets from Un Ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball), Simon Boccanegra, and other great stage works by Verdi, along with such favorites as the Song to the Moon from Dvoraks Rusalka, and the final scene from Tchaikovskys Eugene Onegin.

Hvorostovsky and Radvanovsky will perform with the Orchestre de la Francophonie, under the baton of Constantine Orbelian. Jean-Philippe Tremblay, the orchestras music director, will conduct some of the finest orchestral selections from opera, by Verdi, Puccini and Mascagni.

Tickets, $65-148.75, are available via www.RoyThomson.com or by calling 416-872-4255. Information is also available at www.ShowOneProductions.ca.

This concert is certain to be a highlight of 2010, promises Svetlana Dvoretskaia of Show One Productions. When you get two talents of this magnitude in the finest operatic music ever written, it is both a rare and unforgettable experience!

Hvorostovsky and Radvanovsky first performed together in Russia in 2009. The Toronto concert marks the start of a North American tour that takes the artists to Montreals Place des Arts March 26 (also presented by Show One Productions), Washingtons Kennedy Center March 29, and New Yorks Carnegie Hall April 1.

BOTH STARS FEATURED IN NEW VERDI RECORDINGS: In addition to regular performances at the Metropolitan Opera, both Hvorostovsky and Radvanovsky have toured widely. Their recent joint concerts of Verdi scenes and duets in Russia were recorded and will be released shortly on Delos. As well, Radvanovskys Moscow performances led to her first solo recording of Verdi arias, also on Delos and scheduled for release in April.

HVORSTOVSKYS SIMON BOCCANEGRA: While the versatile Russian baritone is a great interpreter of Russian opera and music of his homeland, he is in demand worldwide as a recitalist and for his Verdi roles. When he first performed the title role in Simon Boccanegra in 2006 with the Houston Grand Opera, the Houston Chronicle praised his magnetic stage presence and lustrous sound, marveling at his ability to convey the emotional point of words. When he reprised the role for the San Francisco Opera in September 2008, the San Francisco Chronicle raved, His vocal production was superb, a virtuoso display of smoky tone and sensual, forthright phrasing. The Bay Area Reporter summed him up at the supreme singing actor. This year (2010) sees Hvorostovsky again at the Met, as well as the Covent Garden and Vienna opera houses, and touring extensively in Russia, North America and Canada. www.hvorostovsky.com

Vanity Fair wrote that Hvorostovsky is sending aficionados the world over into a collective swoon, inviting an adulation that recalls the advent of Baryshnikov in the dance world of the seventies. And he was a rare classical musician to be named one of People Magazines 50 most beautiful people.

RADVANOVSKYS FIRST TOSCA & AIDA: One month after her Toronto performance, Sondra Radvanovsky will sing her first Tosca in the Opera Colorado production of the Puccini melodrama (www.operacolorado.org/operas/tosca-artists). In October 2010, she will make both her Canadian Opera Company and role debuts in the title role of Verdis Aida. On March 20, audiences will enjoy a foretaste when she includes Aidas aria O Patria Mia in the program.

The New York Times has praised her rich, tremulous soprano voice and affecting intensity, while The Times (UK) hailed her as a true Verdian, with a big, juicy, vibrato-rich sound. San Franciscos Chronicle summed up her September 2009 performance in Il Trovatore: Even if nothing else happens during the rest of the San Francisco Operas 2009 fall season, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky has already provided us with at least one extraordinary and indelible musical memory. (Hvorostovsky alternated as Count di Luna in that production.)

This January has seen her as Lina in the Metropolitan Operas remount of Verdis Stiffelio, with Plcido Domingo conducting in what the New York Times described as a richly expressive performance as Lina, Stiffelios guilt-stricken wifeĶ She sang with utter integrity, supple phrasing, nuanced colorings and aching vulnerability. Her bright, strong voice filled Verdis lines and penetrated the orchestra without forcingĶ She won me over, and the cheering audience, with her impassioned performance.

Radvanovsky is also appearing this season as Elisabetta in Don Carlo at the Paris Opera; and in the Verdi Requiem with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. www.imgartists.com/sondraradvanovsky

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

David Shermans The Daily Miracle

While a winter storm threatens to shut down the city and the corporate big wigs meet behind closed doors across the hall to decide the fate of the newspaper, four copy editors hammer out tomorrows edition. It's just another night on the news desk, where the battle-scarred and overworked wrestle with fractured syntax and crushed ideals to get the next edition out. Tempers frayed from layoffs, cutbacks and corroded ambitions; it's a miracle they can get the paper out at all Ķ a miracle that happens every day.

Performance Information
Dates & Times Jan. 26 Feb. 14
Previews Jan. 26 & 27
Opening Night Jan. 28
Tues. through Sat. 20:00
Sunday Matine 14:00 (Jan.31 PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN)
Monday DARK

Tickets
General Admission $20
Seniors & Students $15
Groups (6 or more) $10

Venue
Bain St-Michel
5300, St-Dominique

Box Office
(514) 987 1774
box-office@infinitheatre.com
www.infinitheatre.com

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

To the Sea in Ships

Songs and stories of sailors, adventurers and fishers the world over
Tuesday, February 9, 2010, at 8 pm
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, at 8 pm

Trinity St. Pauls Centre


For Immediate Release Toronto, January 13, 2010: Torontos Talisker Players return to Trinity St. Pauls Centre on Tuesday & Wednesday, February 9 and 10 with To the Sea in Ships. Offering concert-goers an escape from Toronto in winter to adventure on the high seas, this is an evening of music about sea-faring from across the ages and around the world. Mezzo-soprano Vicki St. Pierre, tenor Keith Klassen and baritone Alexander Dobson are the renowned guest artists joining the instrumentalists of Talisker Players.

The programme starts with British composer John Ireland's setting of the famous John Masefield poem, Sea Fever ("I must down to the sea again / To the lonely sea and the sky") for baritone and piano.  It also features Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe's evocative Island Dreaming, for mezzo soprano and string quartet, and American Lee Hoiby's Bermudas, a gorgeous setting of a poem by Andrew Marvell about the first British sailors to come upon the Caribbean islands, for tenor, baritone and piano quartet.

The Talisker Players have a strong commissioning programme, and always take pride in featuring Canadian composers.  To the Sea in Ships features the premiere of a new work by the promising young Toronto composer Juliet Hess. The Mariner's Albatross is a setting of an excerpt from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the famous narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, for an unusual combination of tenor, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and double bass.  The evening also includes Sir Ernest MacMillan's rollicking setting of Three French Canadian Sea Songs, for baritone and string quintet. As always, this Talisker Players production includes the spoken word.  Readings will be from the great seafaring classic Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana.

Vicki St. Pierres lush voice is both dark and brilliant, an unusual combination. Still at the beginning of her career, she has distinguished herself in a wide variety of styles and genres. An acclaimed interpreter of early music, she is also at ease on the opera stage, and is in great demand as an oratorio and recital artist.  

Tenor Keith Klassen has emerged as one of Canada's busiest and most versatile tenors. His voice has been described as "pure honey, with its ease of high notes and lyrical grace of phrasing", and his acting as passionate and dramatically convincing. He is a member of the studio company of Tapestry New Opera Works, and has appeared in numerous workshops and premieres. Keith is also a sought-after oratorio singer, and has performed across Canada and abroad.

The British-Canadian baritone Alexander Dobson has been praised for his musicality and dramatic awareness on the opera, concert and recital stage. Recent highlights include his portrayal of Wozzeck conducted by Yannick Nzet-Sguin in Montreal, a performance lauded for his "gripping embodiment of Wozzeck", which he later reprised at the Orford Festival, and debuts at Covent Garden (U.K.) and New Yorks Bard Festival. Alexander is also a noted performer of new music; he has premiered several roles with Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, Tapestry New Opera and Toronto Masque Theatre.

To the Sea in Ships
 Songs and stories of adventure on the high seas
Tuesday & Wednesday, February 9 & 10, 2010, 8 PM
Trinity St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor Street West
Vicki St. Pierre, mezzo soprano; Keith Klassen, tenor; Alexander Dobson, baritone; The Talisker Players

TICKETS:  $30 / $20 (seniors) / $10 (students)

Tel: 416-978-8849
Information: 416-466-1800



Talisker Players Chamber Music offers one of the most imaginative and exciting concert series in Toronto. In collaboration with some of Canadas finest young singers, Talisker Players present the rarely-heard repertoire for voice and chamber ensemble. Their unique programming includes readings that illuminate the music and delight audiences with a stimulating, theatrical concert experience. The music, engaging and varied, includes both celebrated works and unknown gems from all styles and periods, with a strong presence of Canadian compositions.

Upcoming: Illuminations
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 & Wednesday, May 12, 2010 8 pm
A window on the world of mystics, visionaries and seers
Featuring Meredith Hall, soprano; Lawrence Wiliford, tenor

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EMI Classics and Virgin Classics Highlights for January 2010 Include Solo Recordings and a DVD

From Some of Todays Hottest Singers, Including Diana Damrau, Philippe Jaroussky, and Natalie Dessay

Plus, an All-Ravel Album from Fast-rising Conductor Yannick Nzet-Sguin, and a Veritable (and Danceable) Feast of Ballet Music

Virgin Classics Artist Philippe Jaroussky Makes NYC Solo Recital Debut, Performing His Opium Program Live at Carnegies Weill Recital Hall (Jan 14)

COLORaturas
Diana Damrau, soprano
Mnchner Rundfunkorchester / Dan Ettinger
CD and downloads available January 12 from Virgin Classics

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.  Its impossible to know whether Diana Damrau was born great, but she has without question achieved greatness; Damrau has firm technical command, unaffected mastery of characterization, and beauty of toneĶ . More, please.    Opera News

After two highly-praised Virgin Classics releases of 18th-century repertoire, the superb German soprano Diana Damrau adds a dazzling new title to her Virgin Classics discography: COLORaturas.  With the support of the Mnchner Rundfunkorchester conducted by Dan Ettinger, Damrau is showcased in repertoire that ranges from Rossini (including Una voce poco fa from Barber of Seville) and Verdi to Stravinsky and Bernstein; from comedy to tragedy; and covers four languages: German, Italian, French, and English.  It includes Zerbinettas marathon coloratura aria from Ariadne auf Naxos, one of the operas that spearheaded Damraus international career.

Opera News has named COLORaturas its Critics Choice selection for February 2010.  Under the headline Shattering Expectations, Judith Malafrontes review begins with this observation: Diana Damrau is one of those singers who gobble up the music only to spit it back out with more originality, verve, precision and ease than seems possible.  Listening to such a smart singer is an absolute delight as well as a challenge; expectations are shattered by authoritative readings that leave the listener amazed at this artists imagination and the inevitability of the results.

Diana Damraus operatic engagements in the U.S. for the current season include starring roles in Donizettis La fille du rgiment (Feb) and Rossinis Il barbiere di Siviglia at New Yorks Metropolitan Opera (Feb March), as well as Ambroise Thomass Hamlet in Washington, D.C. (May).  She will also take center stage at New Yorks Carnegie Hall on January 24, performing orchestral songs by Richard Strauss with the MET Orchestra and James Levine.

J.C. Bach: La Dolce Fiamma Forgotten Castrato Arias
Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor
Le Cercle de LHarmonie / Jrmie Rhorer
CD and downloads available January 12 from Virgin Classics

The countertenor Philippe Jaroussky wields his sweet-toned, radiant voice to emotive effect, displaying both a rapid-fire coloratura technique and a poignant, lyrical expressiveness. New York Times

Philippe Jarousskys previous operatic recital for Virgin Classics was a collection of arias written for a castrato singer, Carestini, whose star had been somewhat eclipsed by his contemporaries Farinelli and Senesino.  In this newest release, the young and charismatic French countertenor turns to a composer who despite his famous last name, his celebrity during his lifetime, and his influence on the young Mozart is still not given his full due: Johann Christian Bach (1735-82).  The repertoire comprises arias from six of his operas, written for Milan, Mannheim, and London, the city in which he spent the last 20 years of his life and where, in 1764, he met Mozart, then a touring child prodigy. 

La Dolce Fiamma Forgotten Castrato Arias is Jarousskys seventh solo disc for Virgin Classics.  Reviewing the new album, a critic for the Toronto Star observed, Frances Jaroussky, 31, is probably the finest of the younger generation of countertenors.  Here, he tackles 13 airs and arias originally written for castrati by Johann Christian BachĶ . J.C. wrote a lot of operas, all of them forgotten which may change, given the impressive performances by Jaroussky and Le Cercle de lHarmonie under conductor Jrmie Rhorer.  This beautiful music spans the full emotional spectrum.

In the Philadelphia Inquirer, David Patrick Stearns praised Jarousskys electrifying treble voice and pinpoint brilliance in a recent review of this and other important new vocal albums.  He calls La Dolce Fiamma a must, noting, On Jarousskys disc, Johann Christian Bach sounds so good that one can only assume his music simply got lost in the historic shuffle.  The Jaroussky disc is necessary for anyone interested in pre-Mozartean opera.

Jarousskys star is already high in the firmament in Europe, especially in France, where his albums have been extraordinary bestsellers.  Audiences in two American cities will have the opportunity to hear his work in a broad range of repertoire early in the New Year.  On January 14, Jaroussky will give a recital of sensuous and seductive French melodies from the late 19th and early 20th centuries the so-called Belle poque at Carnegies Weill Recital Hall; it will mark his New York City solo recital debut.  Jaroussky recorded many of these songs on his Virgin Classics album Opium, which was released this past spring.

Much of the Opium repertoire will also appear on a program Jaroussky will give at the Cleveland Institute of Music on January 16 with the dynamic young ensemble Apollos Fire.  Writing about Opium, a critic for All Music Guide observed, Jaroussky rose as a star of Baroque opera not only because of his flawless technique and the exceptional clarity and purity of his voice, but for his ability to bring life, through the depth and emotional honesty of his characterizations, to cardboard roles that had primarily served as vehicles for coloratura fireworks.  Its not surprising, then, that he excels in this intensely personal and emotionally transparent repertoire.

Additional information about the album is available on-line at www.jarousskyopium.com. 

Debussy: Pellas et Mlisande 
Natalie Dessay, Laurent Naouri, Stphane Degout
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien / Bertrand de Billy 
DVD available January 12 from Virgin Classics

Natalie Dessay admitted that Mlisande poses few vocal challenges, noting that the role lies comfortably enough for both sopranos and lightweight mezzos.  Indeed, the role is vocally a good fit for her splendid, in fact.  Opera News 

Theres more to life than top notes, Natalie Dessay has said.  She has, of course, made her reputation with the florid, stratospheric heroines of Romantic French and Italian opera, but in this new DVD from Vienna she portrays a heroine who presents few opportunities for vocal display, but many for subtle characterization Debussys Mlisande.  Dessay had sung the role just once before, in concert in Edinburgh in 2005.  Pellas et Mlisande is full of ambiguity and its vocal lines closely reflect Maurice Maeterlincks hauntingly enigmatic text.  A few unaccompanied, ballad-like phrases are the closest Mlisande comes to an aria.

For this production, premiered in January 2009 at the Theater an der Wien, Dessays French and French-Canadian colleagues included stage director Laurent Pelly celebrated for riotous comedy (notably La fille du rgiment with Dessay, also a Virgin Classics DVD) and his preferred designer, Chantal Thomas; Dessays real-life husband, bass-baritone Laurent Naouri, as her jealous stage husband, Golaud; the lyric baritone Stphane Degout as her Pellas; and the contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux as his and Golauds mother, Genevive.  Conductor Bertrand de Billy completes the high-caliber Gallic line-up.

A preview segment from the DVD is available at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANSOGaoJOFs.

Natalie Dessays ever-rising profile in the U.S. has been fueled by a series of critically-acclaimed performances with the countrys leading opera companies, particularly New Yorks Metropolitan Opera.  She returns there in March to star as Ophelia in the companys production of Ambroise Thomass Hamlet (eight performances, March 16 through April 9).  Listeners can preview that performance on Virgin Classics recently released Mad Scenes, which features Dessay going off the rails emotionally, but with perfect musical precision in works from five 19th-century operas, along with a surprising live performance from Bernsteins Candide.  In his review of the album for the Philadelphia Inquirer, David Patrick Stearns calls Dessay, a modern-day Sills: her sense of theatrical comprehension wins the day.

Ravel: La Valse, Mother Goose, Daphnis et Chlo Suite No. 2, etc.
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra / Yannick Nzet-Sguin
CD and downloads available January 12 from Virgin Classics

In everything, Nzet-Sguin who is flashy and hyper-expressive in his gestures got a sound I had never quite heard before from the Angelenos.  It was lean, sleek, tart in the French manner, yet also very bold and forward.  It reminded me of the sound of the Montral Symphony during the Charles Dutoit era, but with more punch. Los Angeles Times 

A new album of orchestral works by Ravel marks Yannick Nzet-Sguins debut recording with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.  The French-Canadian conductor finds Maurice Ravel to be the greatest orchestrator that French music has ever had, which is what he and the orchestra want to showcase on this recording.  Its all about colors, Nzet-Sguin explained, [and] the contrast between intimacy and grandeur, Valse being one of his greatest and most powerful symphonic poems, and yet the Valses nobles et sentimentales being much more in the intimate wayĶ . In Ma mre lOye, we are being so intimate, while Daphnis and Chlo is also one of his most uplifting and triumphant [works].  Theres a lot of contrast.

In the 2008-09 season, Yannick Nzet-Sguin succeeded Valery Gergiev as Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and also became Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.  Since 2000, he has been Artistic Director of the Orchestre Mtropolitain in Montreal, gaining many awards for his work there.  He has worked with all the leading Canadian orchestras and returns regularly to the Toronto Symphony.  He made his European debut in late 2004 with Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and has since been invited back by all the orchestras with which he has worked.

Nzet-Sguin has been busy in New York this winter, making his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting a new production of Bizets Carmen, which opened on December 31 (six performances through Jan 21), and will soon head across the Lincoln Center plaza to lead the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in two orchestral concerts at Avery Fisher Hall (Feb 17 and 19). 

Schubert: String Quintet in C (D.956); String Quartet No. 15 in G (D.887); String Quartet No. 14 in D minor (D.810), Death and the Maiden
Belcea Quartet; Valentin Erben, cello 
Two-CD set and downloads available January 12 from EMI Classics 

The Belcea Quartet adds three late masterpieces by Franz Schubert to their impressive discography on EMI Classics: the String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, Death and the Maiden (D.810), the luminous and transcendent String Quartet No. 15 in G (D.887), and the life-affirming String Quintet in C (D.956) with Valentin Erben of the Alban Berg String Quartet as the second cellist.  The Belcea Quartet has garnered much praise for their take on Schubert, with the New York Times recently stating, In the Belceas account [of Death and the Maiden] the work seemed so formidable and emotionally complex that there was nothing more to say. 

Chopin: Journal Intime
Alexandre Tharaud, piano 
CD and downloads available January 12 from Virgin Classics 

Alexandre Tharaud plays Chopin with superlative techniqueĶ[his] intelligent playing Ķmatches its clarity with perception and sensitivity, and variety of touch with sonic beauty.  Tharaud is unfailingly responsive to melodic nuance and seems to relish every new twist of the texture.  But there is also immense power when the dark energy beneath is unleashed.  His concept plumbs the depths of Chopins musical psyche with humilityĶ a brilliant and original performance.
BBC Music magazine 

Already established as one of todays most individual and thoughtful pianists, Alexandre Tharaud makes his debut on Virgin Classics with a diverse and very personal collection of pieces by Frdric Chopin, just in time for the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the composers birth (he was born on March 1, 1810).

Journal intime (Private diary) features works by Chopin mazurkas, nocturnes, ballades, the famous Fantaisie-impromptu, and a number of other, lesser-known works that have special importance and significance to Tharaud, who cites the pianism of Vlado Perlemuter and Sergei Rachmaninov as a particular influence on his approach to the music of Chopin.  Many of these pieces have been in Tharauds repertoire since his student days.  I let time work for me, he explains.  It is extraordinarily enriching to study a work when you are young and then revisit it in the course of your life.  It becomes part of you.  A preview video for the project is available at the following link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ0835-S67M, and a full track listing follows below.

Tharaud, born in Paris in 1968, takes a discerning approach to repertoire, highlighting and often juxtaposing composers such as Bach, Rameau, Couperin, Chabrier, Satie, Ravel, Poulenc, and Thierry Pcou (b.1965).  His catalogue of recordings for Harmonia Mundi has contributed substantially to his reputation.

This winter and spring, Tharaud will give a number of recitals in America, including performances at the Frick Collection in New York City on March 7 and at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. on March 12 (these and other dates are listed in the artist tour section at the end of this news release). 

Track list
1.    Mazurka, Op. 63, No. 3
2.    Ballade, Op. 23, No. 1
3.    Mazurka, Op. 17, No. 2
4.    Mazurka, Op. 68, No. 2
5.    Fantaisie, Op. 49
6.    Nocturne posthumous
7.    Mazurka, Op 7, No. 2
8.    Ballade, Op. 38, No. 2
9.    Mazurka, Op. 17, No. 4
10.  Largo
11-13.  Trois cossaises, Op. 72, No. 3 (I-III)
14.  Contredanse
15.  Fantaisie-impromptu, Op. 66
16.  Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2 

Lehr: La veuve joyeuse (The Merry Widow)
Vronique Gens, Ivan Ludlow, Gordon Gietz, Magali Lger
Opra de Lyon / Grard Korsten
DVD available Janaury 12 from Virgin Classics 

The heroine of La veuve joyeuse is called Missia Palmieri, but she had started off in 1905 as Hanna Glawari in Vienna, where this operetta is known as Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow); its French premiere followed in 1909.  The story of the merry widow and her rekindled romance with dissipated diplomat Count Danilo takes place in Paris notably Chez Maxims in the final act and in fact has its roots in a French play, Lattach dambassade by Henri Meilhac.  With Ludovic Halvy, Meilhac was the librettist of Carmen, a number of Offenbachs operettas and a play called Le Rveillon, which forms the basis of that other supreme Viennese operetta Die Fledermaus.  Johann Strausss waltzes and polkas were clearly an influence on Lehr, but his sumptuous and often touching score also frequently furnishes reminders that he was a contemporary of both Richard Strauss and Giacomo Puccini.

This production, mounted in December 2007 at the Opra de Lyon (the source of Virgin Classics DVD of Offenbachs La vie Parisienne in a riotous contemporary updating by Laurent Pelly) is by the French director Macha Makeieff.  She treats the work as the masterpiece it is: Macha Makeieffs reading Ķ turns its back on the conventions of operetta frippery, of musical champagne bubbles to keep the crowds happy Ķ . In defining the personalities of the two lovers two wounded birds who have put up barriers to protect themselves from love she brings depth and gravity to the work, giving it new stature (Le Progrs).

In the title role is the leading French lyric soprano, the graceful Vronique Gens, whose two Tragdiennes recitals are on Virgin Classics; her Danilo is the dashing British baritone Ivan Ludlow, while the roles of the secondary pair of errant lovers are played by the Canadian tenor Gordon Gietz and the delightful Magali Lger, with the latters long-suffering husband portrayed by baritone Franois Le Roux.  Conducting is Grard Korsten, born in South Africa but with long experience as both student and performer in Austria, notably Salzburg. 

Special compilations, boxed sets, and reissues 

Aldo Ciccolini: The Complete EMI Recordings 1950-91
Specially-priced 56-CD set available January 12 from EMI Classics 

Beyond Aldo Ciccolinis two bestselling complete Satie recordings and other proofs of his natural affinity with the French repertoire (which put him very much in tune with the artistic policy of French EMI under the leadership of Ren Challan, Eric Macleod, and Grco Casadesus), and his unflashy Liszt the ideal alternative to someone like Georges Cziffra the public knows surprisingly little of the recordings that Ciccolini made for EMI between 1950 and 1991.

In 1950, as winner of the 1949 Marguerite Long Competition, the 25-year-old Ciccolini recorded his first 78; it was devoted to Scarlatti, a composer to whom he later returned.  Following soon afterwards was Tchaikovskys Piano Concerto No. 1, conducted by Andr Cluytens the pianist asked for the tapes of the second concerto to be destroyed, since he did not like the piece and then produced an anthology of Mozart sonatas which has a finesse, balance, and sonic splendor still typical of Ciccolinis concert performances today.

EMIs new 56-CD collection contains numerous items which have become available for the first time (such as Mozart sonatas and Bach inventions previously only released in Japan, or his first Debussy disc, dating from 1969), or which have never before been released, such as the magnificent Pictures at an Exhibition recorded in 1976.  With particular care taken over the transfers, including re-masterings of all the late recordings, this box will convince any remaining skeptics that Aldo Ciccolini, though born in Naples, holds a place at the very summit of French pianism. 

The Complete Chopin Edition 200th anniversary
16-CD set and downloads available January 26 from EMI Classics. 

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Frdric Chopins birth in suitably grand fashion, EMI Classics is proud to release the Polish composers complete works in an exclusive, specially-priced 16-CD boxed set.  The collection brings together all of the works the piano sonatas, mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, polonaises, tudes, impromptus, preludes, and other works that established Chopin as one of the greatest Romantic composers and virtuosos who ever lived.  Featured artists include Leif Ove Andsnes, Claudio Arrau, Daniel Barenboim, Andrei Gavrilov, Benjamin Grosvenor, Garrick Ohlsson and Ronald Smith. 

American Classics series five new titles
Various artists 
Single and two-CD sets and downloads available January 26 from EMI Classics 

EMI Classics expands its attractively-designed and smartly-programmed American Classics series by five new and diverse titles this month, spanning the characteristically wide spectrum of the American music scene, from music theater and spirituals to minimalism and the avant-garde.

The five programs and their contributing artists are as follows: 

AMERICAN COUNTERPOINT 
John Adams: Harmonielehre; John Cage: Three Dances; Conlon Nancarrow: Three Canons for Ursula 
Michael Tilson Thomas, Ralph Grierson, Thomas Ads
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle 

LEONARD BERNSTEIN: Wonderful Town 
Kim Criswell, Audra McDonald, Thomas Hampson
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; London Voices / Sir Simon Rattle 

RIDE ON, KING JESUS 
Florence Quivar sings black music of America
Florence Quivar, Larry Woodard, Joseph Joubert, Harlem Boys Choir 

AMERICAN CLARINET 
Elliott Carter: Clarinet Concerto (Gra); Steve Reich: New York Counterpoint; Howard Sandroff: Tephillah; John Adams: Gnarly Buttons 
Alain Damiens, Andr Trouttet
Ensemble InterContemporain / David Robertson 

GEORGE GERSHWIN 
Porgy and Bess A Symphonic Picture; Second Rhapsody for piano and orchestra (Rhapsody in Rivets); Concerto in F
Cristina Ortiz
London Symphony Orchestra / Andr Previn 

Two New Titles in 100 Best series:
Best Violin 100
Best Chopin 100
Various Artists
Two six-CDs-for-the-price-of-one sets available January 26 from EMI Classics 

EMI Classics adds two titles to its enormously popular 100 Best series (now numbering 23 titles with a combined total sales of two million sets worldwide).  Like its predecessors, each of the new titles features a plethora of superb artistry from the catalogues of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics at an unbeatable price: six CDs for the price of one!

The first contains 100 violin masterpieces, performed by some of the worlds greatest artists past and present, including Renaud Capuon, Sarah Chang, Kyung-Wha Chung, Augustin Dumay, Christian Ferras, Leonid Kogan, Fritz Kreisler, and Gidon Kremer.

Each CD is themed by eras and genres, as follows: 

CD 1: Vivaldi and the Italian Baroque
CD 2: Bach and Mozart
CD 3: Beethoven and Brahms
CD 4: The 19th-Century Violin
CD 5: The 20th-Century Violin
CD 6: Encores and Showpieces

The second new title, Best Chopin 100, features a glittering galaxy of keyboard stars performing the most beloved and famous works by the great Polish composer.  Featured artists include exciting new performers, established stars, and legendary artists such as (in alphabetical order): Dmitri Alexeev, Leif Ove Andsnes, Martha Argerich, Claudio Arrau, Daniel Barenboim, Stanislav Bunin, Georges Cziffra, Youri Egorov, Ingrid Fliter, Samson Franois, Andrei Gavrilov, Nelson Goerner, Stephen Kovacevich, Dinu Lipatti, Garrick Ohlsson, Mikhail Pletnev, Maurizio Pollini, Arthur Rubinstein, Maria Tipo, and Alexis Weissenberg. 

Three special ballet titles:
The Ballet Edition (ten two-CD sets)
A Festival of Ballet (50-CD boxed set in luxury packaging)
I Love Ballet (Greatest hits on two mid-price CDs)
Available January 26 from EMI Classics 

Some people love the total experience of the ballet.  Others just love to listen to the glorious music romantic, dramatic, tragic, comic, charming, exhilarating composed for the theater by supreme figures like Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Ravel; by lesser masters such as Glazunov, Delibes, and Adam; or by the one-hit wonder specialists, like Lovenskiold and Drigo.  With this winters three complementary ballet strands, EMI Classics draws on its rich catalogue to present releases for the balletomane, the new ballet enthusiast, or simply the lover of enthralling music, all superbly performed. 

The Ballet Edition
This new series, with a special focus on complete ballet scores, is launched with ten two-CD sets.  It includes a number of landmark performances: Tchaikovskys Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and Nutcracker and Prokofievs Romeo & Juliet and Cinderella from the London Symphony Orchestra under Andr Previn interpretations that have long set the standard in these magnificent works; Ravels Daphnis et Chlo and Debussys Jeux from the Orchestre de Paris under Jean Martinon, a master of French style; and Stravinskys Rite of Spring, Petrushka, Firebird, and Apollo the kind of repertoire that first established Sir Simon Rattles international reputation with the British maestro and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.  The collection also includes Delibes Copplia and Sylvia, performed by Parisian forces; Adams Giselle and Lovenskiolds La Sylphide; and extracts from Glazunovs Raymonda, Minkuss La Bayadre, and Drigos Le Corsaire, all in the hands of expert ballet conductors. 

A Festival of Ballet
This sumptuously-packaged 50-CD set provides an epic survey of ballet music as a genre, from its origins in the Baroque era with composers such as Purcell and Rameau, through its establishment in the 18th and 19th centuries in France and Russia, to the great narrative works of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, and the works of modernism, some jazz-inspired.  Many rarely-heard scores are included alongside essential repertoire.

The array of Russian music exemplifies the sets impressive scope: beyond substantial highlights from the great Tchaikovsky ballets and other works by the composer, there is music by Glazunov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky (from Firebird of 1910 through to Agon of 1957), Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Shostakovich and a number of lesser-known figures such as Liadov and Glire.  The discs devoted to French, British, German, and American repertoire also yield a plethora of scores, and there are even four CDs of dances from operas, oratorios, and plays.

Among the fascinating rarities in the set are John Antills Corroboree (1950), a spectacular work inspired by the Aborigines of Australia; Charles Koechlins tone poem Les Bandar-Log (based on Rudyard Kiplings Jungle Book), which underpinned Antony Tudors 1967 ballet Shadowplay; and Constant Lamberts Horoscope.  Presented beside much-loved scores by Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland is songwriter Cole Porters only classical ballet, Within the Quota.

The recordings feature the worlds great orchestras under leading conductors such as Herbert von Karajan, Riccardo Muti, Andr Previn, Simon Rattle, Carlo Maria Giulini, Thomas Beecham, John Barbirolli, Charles Mackerras, Neville Marriner, Seiji Ozawa, Roger Norrington, John Eliot Gardiner, Leonard Slatkin, Kent Nagano, and Michel Plasson, and also leading ballet specialists such as John Lanchbery, Barry Wordsworth, Terence Kern, and Robert Irving. 

I Love Ballet
These two richly-filled CDs provide a perfect introduction to the joys of ballet music, with many of its greatest hits included: highlights from Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Copplia, Romeo & Juliet, Giselle, Les Sylphides, Sylvia, Cinderella, La fille mal garde, Gayaneh (the soaring theme from the BBC TV drama The Onedin Line), and the charming Tales of Beatrix Potter; the complete Dance of the Hours from the opera La Gioconda (made famous by Disneys Fantasia), the can-can overture from Gait Parisienne, and the sparkling opening dance from Pineapple Poll (set to the music of Sir Arthur Sullivan); two numbers from Faade, and The Dying Swan, so closely identified with the legendary ballerina Anna Pavlova.  The impressive line-up of conductors includes Herbert von Karajan, Andr Previn, Sir Malcolm Sergent, and Sir Charles Mackerras. 

EMI Classics and Virgin Classics: Artists on tour Winter 2010 

Jan 14
Philippe Jaroussky: Opium program 
Carnegies Weill Recital Hall (New York, NY)

Jan 15 and 16
Ingrid Fliter: Ravels Piano Concerto in G major
St. Louis Symphony (St. Louis, MO)

Jan 16
Philippe Jaroussky: Songs from Opium program and other works
Apollos Fire (Cleveland Baroque Orchestra)
Mixon Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music (Cleveland, OH)

Jan 21
Fabio Biondi: Vivaldis Four Seasons
Carnegies Zankel Hall (New York, NY)

Jan 22
Fabio Biondi: Vivaldis Four Seasons
Mandel Hall, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

Jan 23
Fabio Biondi: Vivaldis Four Seasons
First Congregational Church (San Francisco, CA)

Jan 24
Fabio Biondi: Vivaldis Four Seasons
Beekman Auditorium (Los Angeles, CA)

Jan 24
Diana Damrau: R. Strauss orchestral songs
MET Orchestra / James Levine
Carnegie Hall (New York, NY)

Jan 26
Fabio Biondi: Vivaldis Four Seasons
Cabell Hall, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)

Jan 26
Capuon-Angelich Trio
Schwab Auditorium, Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA)

Jan 27
Capuon-Angelich Trio
Rockefeller University (New York, NY)

Jan 28
Capuon-Angelich Trio
University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)

Jan 29
Capuon-Angelich Trio
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY)

Jan 29
Fabio Biondi: Vivaldis Four Seasons
Struthers Library Theatre (Warren, PA)

Jan 30
Fabio Biondi: Vivaldis Four Seasons
Southern Theatre (Columbus, OH)

Jan 31 and Feb 1
Capuon-Angelich Trio
Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC)

Feb 1
Fabio Biondi: recital
Carnegies Zankel Hall (New York, NY)

Feb 2
Capuon-Angelich Trio
La Maison Franaise (Washington, DC)

Feb 5-23
Quatuor Ebne: North American tour
Appleton, WI (Feb 5); Columbia, MD (Feb 6); Toronto, ON (Feb 8); Tucson, AZ (Feb 10); Los Angeles, CA (Feb 12-14); New York, NY (Poisson Rouge, Feb 16); Burlington, VT (Feb 19); Athens, GA (Feb 21); and Washington, DC (Feb 23)

Feb 6 (six performances through Feb 22)
Diana Damrau: title role in Donizettis La fille du rgiment
Metropolitan Opera (New York, NY)

Feb 17
Yannick Nzet-Sguin / Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Messiaen, Liszt, Strauss
Avery Fisher Hall (New York, NY)

Feb 19
Yannick Nzet-Sguin / Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Brahms, Verbey, Bartk

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La Scena Musicale numro de fvrier 2010 - publicit



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LSM Sept 2009


The Music Scene Hiver 2010
Bonjour !

Au nom de toute lquipe demploys et de bnvoles de La Scena Musicale, je vous souhaite une bonne et heureuse anne 2010. Nous amorons lanne avec un nouveau blogue, Vido de musique classique daujourdhui, qui sinscrit dans notre nouvelle stratgie de communications lectroniques et qui propose chaque jour une nouvelle vido.

Malheureusement, lanne musicale compte dj ses mauvaises nouvelles. Le producteur de disques Pierre Dionne (des Disques XXI), un grand ami de LSM et de la musique classique canadienne, a perdu la semaine dernire son combat contre le cancer. Voir plus bas les prcisions sur les obsques.

En fvrier, La Scena Musicale tourne les projecteurs vers les jeunes musiciens prometteurs.
  • En couverture, le pianiste Wonny Song et la violoniste Alexandre da Costa, qui ont tous deux commenc leur carrire musicale au dbut de ladolescence et qui sont aujourdhui des modles pour dautres
  • Notre CD Dcouverte du mois est consacr des interprtations de Wong (lesTableaux d'une exposition de Moussorgski) et da Costa (les Quatre Saisons de Vivaldi).
  • Nous mettons ce mois-ci laccent sur lenseignement de la musique au primaire, au secondaire et priv.
  • Ce numro comprendra notre guide annuel des coles ainsi que leurs calendriers, des conseils et des articles, entre autres des conversations avec de grands professeurs, des musicologues, des adultes professionnels et de jeunes musiciens.
  • Entrevue avec le pianiste de 14 ans Jan Lisiecki
  • Les lecteurs en sauront un peu plus sur la toute premire tourne nord-amricaine de Yannick Nzet-Sguin et de lOrchestre philharmonique de Rotterdam qui commencera en fvrier.
  • Montral, le festival MusiMars approche et lOrchestre de chambre McGill clbre un important anniversaire en 2010.
  • La Scena Musicale rencontre le gagnant du Prix dArts-Affaires Maurice Forget et la gagnante du grand prix dApro lOpra de lOpra de Montral Annie Sanschagrin.
  • Aria du mois : Vissi d'arte de Tosca de Puccini
Tout cela et plus encore en musique classique, en jazz et en musique du monde y compris nos indispensables critiques, concerts venir et calendriers mensuels.

La date de tombe pour les annonces dans le numro de fvrier est le 25 janvier, les maquettes devant nous parvenir au plus tard le 26 janvier.


Promotion Abonnements de janvier Pourquoi pas sabonner ?

Jusquau 31 janvier 2010, les nouveaux abonns obtiendront une rduction de 10 $ sur un abonnement LSM sils sabonnent en ligne. Cette conomie quivaut 4 numros gratuits et labonnement comprend des privilges comme laccs la Discothque Naxos et le tlchargement gratuit de le la collection couverte en format MP3 (10 CD).  noter : partir de 2010, seuls les abonns payants recevront le CD Dcouverte matriel.
Nous recommandons aux lecteurs lextrieur du Canada notre option cologique, la Carte verte La SCENA, vendue seulement 25 $/anne. Voir les dtails ci-dessous.

Collecte de fonds
Enfin, nous commenons lanne 2010 en lanant notre Campagne Fonds de dotation : pour chaque dollar de don, nous recevrons 1,50 $ du programme Placement Culture du gouvernement du Qubec. Notre objectif est de recueillir 100 000 $ afin de crer un fonds de dotation de 250 000 $ qui maintenira l'excellence et assurera la prennit de nos magazines. Veuillez faire un don ou vous joindre notre comit de financement. Voir ci-dessous.

Pour nos lecteurs montralais, nous levons aussi des fonds en vendant des billets pour la prsentation de Tosca de lOpra de Montral du 11 fvrier 2010 (billets de 46 $ 99 $).

Nos meilleurs vux pour 2010.

Salutations amicales,

Wah Keung Chan
diteur et rdacteur en chef fondateur
La Scena Musicale
La SCENA
The Music Scene


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La Scena Musicale fvrier 2010
  • Thme : ducation musicale
  • En couverture : le pianiste Wonny Song et la violoniste Alexander da Costa
  • Sortie : le 29 janvier 2010
  • Tombe (publicit) : le 25 janvier 2010
  • Maquettes : le 25 janvier 2010
  • Tirage : 25 000 exemplaires
  • Qubec : 2 500
  • Montral : 18 500
  • En kiosque : 2 000
  • Abonnements : 2 000
  • Public vis : artistes amateurs et professionnels, passionns de musique et dart
  • Contact : 514-948-0509 ou sales@scena.org
  • Trousse Mdia : http://ads.scena.org/
venir : La Scena Musicale mars 2010 et The Music Scene Printemps 2010
  • Thme : Camps d't

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Funrailles pour Pierre Dionne
Date : le samedi 23 janvier 2010
Lieu : Trois-Rivires
La famille recevra les amis et collgues de Pierre au Centre Funraire Rousseau, 445 rue des Volontaires (juste en face de la cathdrale), le samedi 23 janvier ds 10 h 00. Les funrailles suivront 13 h 30 la cathdrale de Trois-Rivires, 362 rue Bonaventure.
Contact : Olivier Godin, oligodin@yahoo.com

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Promotion Abonnements de janvier Pourquoi pas sabonner ?

Jusquau 31 janvier 2010, les nouveaux abonns obtiendront une rduction de 10 $ sur un abonnement LSM sils sabonnent en ligne. Cette conomie quivaut 4 numros gratuits et labonnement comprend des privilges comme laccs la Discothque Naxos et le tlchargement gratuit de le la collection couverte en format MP3 (10 CD).  noter : partir de 2010, seuls les abonns payants recevront le CD Dcouverte matriel.

Nous recommandons aux lecteurs lextrieur du Canada notre option cologique, la Carte verte La SCENA, vendue seulement 25 $/anne.

http://www.scena.org/LaSCENACard/index_fr.html

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Prochaine activit-bnfice LSM

Montral, le jeudi 11 fvrier 2010 20 h
Opra de Montral
Puccini : Tosca
Distribution: voir ce lien
Billets : 99 $, 71 $, 46 $
Rduction de 10 % pour les abonns de La Scena Musicale
noter : autres dates disponibles sur demande.

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Lancement du Fonds de dotation LSM

Notre demande au programme de subventions de contrepartie, Placement Culture, a t officiellement approuve. Par consquent, le gouvernement du Qubec versera 1,50 $ pour chaque dollar de don reu par LSM. Le programme Placement Culture exige que La Scne Musicale cre un fonds de dotation. Notre objectif est de recueillir 100 000 $ au cours des douze prochains mois. Si lon y ajoute la subvention de contrepartie du gouvernement, le montant du fonds slverait 250 000 $. Latteinte de cet objectif est dune extrme importance pour maintenir l'excellence et assurer la survie de nos priodiques, et cest pourquoi nous annonons maintenant le lancement de notre campagne 2010 de contributions au fonds de dotation. Veuillez faire un don ou vous joindre notre comit de financement.

Info : 514-948-2520 ou info@lascena.org

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La Scena Musicale February 2010 Issue Details



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The Music Scene Winter 2010

Hello!

On behalf of La Scena Musicales dedicated staff and volunteers, I want to wish you a Happy 2010. We began the New Year with a new blog Todays Classical Music Video as part of our 2010 digital strategy, which presents a music video pick each day.

Unfortunately, the year has already its share of sad music news. Record producer Pierre Dionne (of XXI Records), a dear friend to LSM and the Canadian classical music community, lost his battle with cancer last week. See below for funeral details.

In February, La Scena Musicale shines the spotlight on the young and budding musician.
  • Gracing our cover are pianist Wonny Song and violinist Alexandre da Costa, who both started their musical careers as young teens and serve as role models for other young musicians.
  • The monthly Discovery CD (in collaboration with XXI Records) will feature a double program by both Song (Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition) and da Costa (Vivaldi's Four Seasons).
  • This months focus on primary, secondary, and private music education includes our annual guide to schools plus related calendars, tips and articles, including conversations with top music educators, musicological scientists, professional adult and young performers.
  • Interview with 14 year old piano prodigy Jan Lisiecki.
  • Readers will also learn more about Yannick Nzet-Sguin and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras first ever North American tour which begins in February,
  • Montreal news such as the upcoming MusiMars Festival and the McGill Chamber Orchestra, which celebrates an important anniversary in 2010.
  • La Scena Musicale sits down with Prix dArts-Affaires winner Maurice Forget, Apro lOpra of the Opra de Montral winner Annie Sanschagrin and soprano Danielle de Niese.
  • Aria of the Month: The heart wrenching "Vissi d'arte" from Puccini's Tosca
All this and more from the worlds of Classical, Jazz, and World music including our indispensable monthly reviews and concert previews and calendars.

The deadline for advertising in the February 2010 issue is January 25 with artwork due on January 26.


January Sale - Why not consider a subscription?

Until January 31, 2010, new subscribers will get $10 off an LSM subscription if they subscribe online. This savings is equivalent to receiving 4 free issues, and the subscription include benefits such as the Naxos Music Library and free MP3 downloads of the Discovery CD Collection (10 full CDs). Note: New for 2010, only paying subscribers will receive the physical Discovery CD.
For non-Canadian readers, we recommend the new environment-friendly La SCENA Green Card for only $25/year. See below for more details.

Fundraising

Finally, we are launching our Endowment Fund Campaign: For every dollar we raise, the Quebec government Placement Culture program will match it with $1.50. Our goal is to raise $100,000 to create a $250,000 endowment fund that will ensure the continued excellence and longevity of our magazines. Please donate or join our fundraising committee. See below. For Montreal readers, we are also raising funds by selling tickets to the Montreal Operas production of Tosca for February 11, 2010 (Tickets: $46 to $99).

All the best for 2010.

Yours sincerely,

Wah Keung Chan
Founding Publisher and Editor
La Scena Musicale
La SCENA
The Music Scene


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Upcoming Issues:

La Scena Musicale February 2010
  • On the Cover: Wonny Song and Alexander Da Costa
  • Theme: Music Education
  • Distribution: January 29
  • Deadline for ad reservations: January 25
  • Deadline for artwork: January 26
  • Total 25,000 copies, 50,000 readers
  • Montreal: 18,500
  • Quebec City: 2,500
  • Newsstands: 2,000
  • Mailing: 2,000
  • Target Readership: professional and amateur artists, music and art lovers
  • Contact : 514-948-0509 or sales@scena.org
  • Media Kit: http://ads.scena.org/
Upcoming: La Scena Musicale March 2010 Issue

Theme: Summer Camps

The Music Scene: Spring 2010

50,000 readers
Theme: Summer Camps

English Canada

circulation: 25,000 copies
  • Toronto : 15,000 
  • Ottawa : 5000
  • English Canada (Schools): 3,000
  • Mailing: 2,000
Distribution date: March 15
Advertising deadline: March 5
Materials deadline: March 8

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Funeral for Pierre Dionne
Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010
Place: Trois-Rivires
The family will receive friends and colleagues of Peter Rousseau Funeral Center, 445 rue des Volontaires (just opposite the Cathedral), Saturday, January 23 at 10:00. The funeral will follow at 13:30 at the Cathedral of Trois-Rivieres, 362 rue Bonaventure.
Contact: Olivier Godin, oligodin@yahoo.com

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JANUARY Subscription Sale

January Subscription Sale - Why not consider a subscription?
Until January 31, 2010, new subscribers will get $10 off an LSM subscription if they subscribe online. This savings is equivalent to receiving 4 free issues, and the subscription include benefits such as the Naxos Music Library (39,000 CDs streaming) and free MP3 downloads of the Discovery CD Collection (10 full CDs). Note: New for 2010, only paying subscribers will receive the physical Discovery CD.
http://www.scena.org/LaSCENACard/index_en.html

Already receive the magazine? 
We recommend the new environment-friendly La SCENA Green Card for only $25/year. Also ideal for non-Canadian readers.


NEW: The La SCENA Green Card

All available online
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Next LSM Benefit Activity

Montral, Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 8 p.m.
Opra de Montral
Tosca by Puccini
Tickets: $99, $71, $46
10% discount for La Scena Musicale subscribers / La SCENA Card members
Note: other dates available upon request.

Reservations
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NEW Endowment Fund: 
Our application for the matching program, Placement Culture, has formally been accepted: for every dollar donated to LSM/TMS, the Qubec government will contribute one dollar and fifty cents. Placement Culture is designed to create endowment funds for charitable arts groups like La Scene Musicale/The Music Scene. Our goal is to raise $100,000 until November 30, 2010, which combined with the government contribution, will create a $250,000 endowment. This will help us continue our magazines's excellence and innovation for years to come. We are therefore launching at this time our 2010 endowment fund campaign. Please join our fundraising committee or make a donation.

Please contact 514-948-2520 or info@lascena.org
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Ross Reynolds, former Universal Music Canada President/Chairman, honoured with 2010 Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award

Founding Director of CARAS to receive the prestigious award at
the 39th Annual JUNO Awards in St. John's, NL


St. John's, NL (January 13, 2010) - The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) is very pleased to be honouring one of its own today as it announces Ross Reynolds as the 2010 Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award recipient. For more than four decades, Reynolds has been a major player in the music industry, notably as a founding board member of CARAS and long-time Universal Music Canada President and Chairman.

"On behalf of the CARAS board, we are so proud to see our friend and colleague honoured in this capacity and recognized for his tremendous contributions to the Canadian music industry," said Melanie Berry, President & CEO of CARAS. "Not only has he been instrumental in helping to steer CARAS to where it is today, Ross Reynolds has wholeheartedly dedicated his career toward fostering Canadian talent on a variety of levels."
"Receiving this award is the result of me having the extraordinary good fortune of timing and being supported by wonderful people, particularly my wife, Jane," said Ross Reynolds. "Nevertheless I'm thrilled to be honoured. It's an exciting ride."

Reynolds is a respected music industry veteran who once held the position of President at GRT Records for 10 years (from the label's inception in 1969), where he signed such Canadian artists as Dan Hill, Dr. Music, Ian Thomas, Lighthouse and Moe Koffman. His resume also includes five years as Executive VP in Canada for WEA (now Warner Music Canada).

He is perhaps best known for his long and outstanding tenure as President then Chairman of Universal Music Canada (formerly MCA) for nearly two decades from 1983 to 2001, during which he oversaw the development of a Canadian roster that included soon-to-be global stars such as The Tragically Hip. Under his leadership, Universal Music Canada experienced exponential growth to achieve a market share of approximately one-third. Today it is still considered one of Canada's most influential music companies. In 2001, Reynolds moved to the position of Chairman Emeritus where he was responsible for administering Universal's multi-million dollar commitment to the support of Canadian culture, which came as a result of the Universal/Polygram merger.

Reynolds' involvement with CARAS dates back to 1975, initially as one of the organization's founding directors. Years later in 2001, he was elected by his peers to the full-time position of Chairman, and immediately made an impact by expanding the focus of the JUNO Awards and setting out to create a brand that Canadians from coast to coast could be proud of. He was instrumental in taking Canada's Music Awards show "on the road" for the first time to St. John's, NL, in addition to growing the singular celebration into a full weekend of events that showcases the successes of Canadian music. In 2006, Stephen Stohn succeeded Reynolds as Chairman of CARAS.

His experience and expertise in the music industry has him currently acting as an advisory board member for the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame; MusiCounts, Canada's music education charity associated with CARAS; in addition to serving on the board of St. Lazarus Hospice. Reynolds is also a past Chairman of the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) and has served on the boards of the Starlight Children's Foundation, Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall, The Audio Visual Preservation Trust Fund, and Canada's Walk of Fame.

For more information about the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award, or to download photos of Ross Reynolds, go to www.junoawards.ca.

JUNO Week takes place April 12-18, 2010, in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, culminating in the live broadcast of THE 2010 JUNO AWARDS, Sunday, April 18, on CTV.

Sponsors of the 2010 JUNO Awards include FACTOR, Canada's Private Radio Broadcasters and the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage's "Canada Music Fund," with commitments from The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the City of St. John's and Radio Starmaker Fund.

Sponsors of THE 2010 JUNO AWARDS broadcast on CTV include Chevrolet, Garnier, Pepsi and Rogers.

Web Links:
Official JUNO Awards website: www.junoawards.ca
CTV's JUNO Awards website: www.junos.ctv.ca
St. John's Host Committee: www.ruckusontheedge.com
CARAS website: www.carasonline.ca
CTV website: www.ctv.ca

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The JUNO Awards come full circle making a much anticipated return to St. John's, NL

JUNO Week excitement builds in the city that first hosted the Awards' cross-country road trip in 2002

ST. JOHN'S, Jan. 13 /CNW/ - It's been eight years, eight Canadian cities, and one remarkable journey for the JUNO Awards since the landmark decision was made to take the annual show on the road across Canada. Now the JUNO Awards come full circle! Canada's greatest music celebration returns to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador - site of the unforgettable first leg of the cross-country road trip - for the 39th Annual JUNO Awards.

Today at a media conference held in St. John's, The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) announced the official dates, venues and ticketing details for JUNO Week Events converging on the city April 12 - 18. JUNO Week culminates with THE 2010 JUNO AWARDS broadcast from Mile One Centre, Sunday, April 18 on CTV.

Tickets for THE 2010 JUNO AWARDS broadcast go on sale Saturday, March 6 at 12pm NDT. Tickets are $189 plus HST and surcharges and can be purchased at the Mile One Centre Box Office; by phoning (709) 576-7657, (toll free) at 1-800-361-4595 or online at www.admission.com.

For the full release and more information on JUNO Week and the 2010 JUNO Awards, visit www.junoawards.ca.

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Major Changes Announced by Russian Ministry of Culture for XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011

MOSCOW, RUSSIAMaestro Valery Gergiev, the recently appointed Chairman of the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition by the Russian Minister of Culture, Alexander Avdeev, accepted the position with a mission to elevate the competition to the level of prestige it enjoyed in past decades. The event, to be held June 14July 2, 2011, will be bound by a new set of rules, regulations and a voting system designed to assure fairness, openness and transparency. To maintain the highest standards of integrity, Maestro Gergiev, the Artistic and General Director of the Mariinsky Theatre and Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, is assembling four juries composed of performers of world-renowned stature.

 From the beginning, the Tchaikovsky Competition inspired me with awe, when, as a child, names soon to become legendaryVan Cliburn, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Grigory Sokolovwere blossoming on the Moscow stage.  The competitions also served as a gathering of a spectacular array of the greatest musicians of their dayDmitri Shostakovitch, Emil Gilels, Sviatoslav Richter, Aram Khachaturian.  Today we are inviting my colleagues, the worlds most celebrated performing artists, to join together in helping us discover a new generation of brilliant young talents.  We will all do our very best to ensure that the XIV Competition serve as a milestone in the illustrious history of this great event, Gergiev said.

The new Organizing Committee under Maestro Gergiev consists of such influential individuals as co-chairpersons Avdeev and Liudmila Shvetsova, the First Deputy of the Mayor of Moscow;  Yuri Laptev, Councilor of the President of Russia; Sergey Khudiakov, Head of the Cultural Department of Moscow; Konstantin Ernst, General Manager of the  First TV Channel; Rodion Schedrin, composer; Denis Matsuev, pianist and member of the Presidents Cultural Council and Alexei Shalashov, Head of the Ministrys Department of Contemporary Art and International Cultural Relations. Also appointed as Senior Advisor to the Organizing Committee and Chairman of the Working Committee is Richard Rodzinski, President Emeritus of the Van Cliburn Foundation.

Many of the recently approved rules and conditions are designed to conform to those adopted by the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.  There is no more important attribute a competition may enjoy than a reputation for being crystal-clean, said Rodzinski. The Tchaikovsky Competition, one of Russias great cultural icons, deserves to be restored to a position of international prominence and recognition.

For the first time in its history, and in keeping with practices encouraged by the World Federation of International Music Competitions, the Tchaikovsky Competition will organize prestigious concert engagements for its laureates both in Russia and abroad. Maestro Gergiev has announced that he plans to engage the winners to perform with the Mariinsky Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. 

Russians can look forward to Cliburns return to Moscow as an Honorary Chairman, and to a host of other internationally acclaimed musicians selected by Maestro Gergiev for the jury.  Cliburn said of this distinction:

When the Minister of Culture, Alexander Avdeev, graciously invited me to serve as honorary chairman of the piano division of the Fourteenth International Tchaikovsky Competition, I was very touched and I am deeply honoured to accept. The great Valery Gergiev, my friend and chairman of the competition, and his distinguished colleagues of the Organizing Committee are blending their talents, wisdom, inspiration and commitment to one of the crown jewels of Russia's cultural crown: the world famous Tchaikovsky International Competition for Piano, Violin, Cello and Voice. The enormous wealth of Tchaikovskys immortal masterpieces written for each of those instruments will again be heard in their glory by young musicians from all over the world, beginning in June 2011 in the beautiful city of Moscow. This competition is not only a fitting memorial to the world beloved Tchaikovsky but also a tribute to the exalted position in which classical music is held in the hearts and minds of the great Russian people.

The Competition unveiled its preliminary website (www.tchaikovsky-competition.com), which includes the application form, repertoire requirements, rules and general information. The appearance of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, unchanged since 1958, will be newly designed by internationally recognized graphic design firm Chermayeff & Geismar in New York.  They are especially noted for creating symbols and logotypes for hundreds of companies, including Mobil Corp., Chase Manhattan Bank and National Geographic. Also for the first time in its history, the Tchaikovsky Competition is undertaking a major international public relations and advertising campaign to support its new initiatives.

The deadline for all applications and submission of a DVD of a 50-minute recital will be December 1, 2010. An international screening jury will review all materials and propose to select 30 pianists, 25 violinists, 25 cellists, and 20 male and 20 female singers. The names of the selected musicians will be announced in March. The competition will consist of three rounds of live performances, all of which will be open to the public. Among new features of the competition will be a classical concerto to be performed by the instrumentalists during the semifinal round.

Cash prizes will be awarded to the top five competitors in each discipline of piano, violin, cello, and to each of the top four competitors in the mens and womens solo vocal categories. First prize (always to be awarded) is 20,000 Euro; second, 15,000 Euro; third, 10,000 Euro; fourth, 5,000 Euro; and fifth, 3,000 Euro. An additional prize, a Grand Prix of 10,000 Euro, may be awarded to one of the gold medalists deemed outstanding by the juries. Additional awards will be given for best performance of the chamber concertos and the commissioned new work.

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Isaac Albniz's lyric comedy The Magic Opal

The Orquesta Sinfnica de Chamartn conducted by Silvia Sanz will present a concert version with full orchestra, soloists and chorus of Isaac Albniz's lyric comedy The Magic Opal (new critical edition by Borja Mario) on February 27, 2010 at 10:30 PM. The performance will take place at the Symphonic Hall of the Auditorio Nacional, located at Principe Vergara, 146 in Madrid (Spain). Tickets are available via Serviticket + 34 902 33 22 11. For more information go to www.oschamartin.org.

The Magic Opal is the last of the stage works of Albniz to be brought to life since its original premiere 1893. This lyric comedy shows Albeniz's innate talent to compose in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan, causing George Bernard Shaw to say in a review of the work that the composer was well ahead of his competitors. A fantasy tale that takes place in Greece with pirates and magic stones, Albeniz is at home in the lyric comedy theatre, lending the work with his own Spanish aesthetic touch and flourish. The date of the premire on February 27, 2010 marks precisely to the day the 117th anniversary of the London last performance of this work.


The Orquesta Sinfnica Chamartin and Chorus
Silvia Sanz, Director
Javier Franco (Carambollas)
Estefana Perdomo (Lolika)
Jos Ferrero (Alzaga)
Csar San Martn (Trabucos)

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Venez Voir Divines paroles mettant en vedette les finissants 2010 du Conservatoire dart dramatique de Montral, du 22 au 30 janvier

Montral, le 11 janvier 2010 Les lves finissants du Conservatoire dart dramatique de Montral prsentent, du 22 au 30 janvier 2010, Divines paroles de Ramn del Valle Incln, dans une traduction, une adaptation et une mise en scne de Philippe Soldevila, au Thtre Rouge situ au 4750, avenue Henri-Julien Montral.

VENEZ VOIR Divines paroles qui prend vie dans lEspagne profonde du dbut du XXe sicle. Juana la Reina trane son fils, un nain hydrocphale, de foire en foire depuis des annes. Lattraction quil suscite lui permet de gagner son pain et de subsister dans un monde misreux. Mais voil quelle meurt subitement, laissant son nain orphelin. Flairant la bonne affaire, tout le village est intress par la garde du prcieux hritage.

Interprte par les finissants 2009-2010, avec une scnographie signe Katia Talbot, des costumes dessins par rica Schmitz, des clairages de Claude Accolas et une musique compose et interprte par Alexis Raynault, Divines paroles sera joue 19 h 30 (relche les 24 et 25 janvier) et le samedi 30 janvier 15 h et 19 h 30.

Lauteur espagnol Ramn del Valle Incln est n le 28 octobre 1866 en Galicie. Le pays de son enfance laissera une empreinte profonde sur son uvre avec ses traditions, ses superstitions, ses sortilges moyengeux et son dialecte propre. Ses extravagances ne tardent pas lui valoir une certaine clbrit. Il porte une longue barbe, les cheveux longs jusquaux paules et un lorgnon. Son insolence et sa verve font de lui une des figures les plus minentes et les plus pittoresques de la bohme littraire espagnole de la gnration 98 . Il crit, entre autres, sa trilogie Comdias brbaras (Comdies barbares) qui voque les paysages et les passions froces de lme galicienne. Il publie en 1920, Divinas palabras (Divines paroles), sa tragicomdie de village considre demble comme un chef-duvre. Il meurt le 5 janvier 1936.

Les billets au cot de 5 $ sont disponibles la billetterie du Conservatoire (514 873-4283, poste 313), du mardi au vendredi, entre 13 h 30 et 17 h 30, ou une heure avant les reprsentations ainsi que sur le rseau Admission : www.admission.com (514 790-1245).

Vous pouvez voir un court extrait de Divines Paroles en rptition, dans le site web du Conservatoire : www.conservatoire.gouv.qc.ca.

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Music with Bite returns to Harbourfront Centre Feb. 14

FREE family concert features trombone quintet I Tromboni

TORONTO, ON (Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010) Harbourfront Centre is thrilled to present the next installment of Music with Bite, our interactive and intimate FREE concert series designed especially for kids ages five to 12.

Satisfy your ears and your taste buds! Music with Bite is a refreshing experience where children can pull up a comfy cushion and sit in front of the stage for an enjoyable, interactive music performance tailored to young audience members. This is a fantastic opportunity to sample music of diverse styles in a friendly, accessible format. All of the artists performing bring an element of interactivity, education and entertainment to their programmes. After the concerts, children can enjoy a complimentary Natrel milk beverage and cookie. In partnership with Jeunesses Musicales Ontario.

Upcoming Music with Bite concerts include trombone quintet I Tromboni on Feb. 14, cabaret performer Patricia OCallaghan on April 18, and erhu master George Gao on May 23. Performances take place Sundays at 1 p.m. at Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West.

For additional information and complete event listings, the public may visit harbourfrontcentre.com or call the Information Hotline at 416-973-4000.

UPCOMING 2010 MUSIC WITH BITE CONCERTS AT HARBOURFRONT CENTRE

I Tromboni
Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010 1 p.m. (Enwave Theatre)

Kids can discover the magic of the trombone on a voyage that strays off the beaten path. I Tromboni is compiled of five young trombonists who are ready to entertain and enlighten you! Since forming in 1999, they have worked to break down the myths & stereotypes that have kept trombones in the back row of the band for too long! Nicknamed Team Canada of Trombones, this dynamic Vancouver-based quintet incorporates music of many genres including jazz, romantic, popular and original compositions. I Tromboni entertains, educates and brings great music-making to kids of all ages. For more information visit itromboni.com.

Patricia OCallaghan
Sunday, April 18 1 p.m.  (Brigantine Room)
The whole family can enjoy a vocal performance by the most promising cabaret performer of her generation, Canadas own Patricia OCallaghan. OCallaghan has performed her European cabaret show around Europe and North America. She has also toured the Juno Award-winning opera Constantinople. OCallaghan is no stranger to the camera; she appeared in CBCs Youkai Hotel and the acclaimed series, Foolish Heart. For more information visit patricia-ocallaghan.com.


George Gao
Sunday, May 23 1 p.m.  (Brigantine Room)
PART OF HARBOURKIDS WEEKEND!
Hailed as one of the most exciting, innovative and respected erhu masters today, the Gemini Award-nominated erhu master George Gao performs at Music with Bite as part of an exciting HarbourKIDS weekend festival. Gao has performed with multiple orchestras around the world including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Billions of people around the world have watched him on CCTV, China's most watched TV station. Gao fuses traditional Chinese music with jazz, Western Classical music, New Age and other ethnic music from different world cultures. For more information visit  georgegao.com.


HarbourKIDS Club Membership
Sign up to be a HarbourKIDS Club Member and receive your very own Splooshy tattoo! Pick up a copy of our Kids Guide to Harbourfront Centre and explore our site on an interactive discovery walk! If you want, well send you periodic emails to let you know what fun family events are coming up at Harbourfront!
 

ABOUT JEUNESSES MUSICALES ONTARIO
Jeunesses Musicales Ontario is a non-profit arts organization that fosters the careers of outstanding young professional musicians at home and abroad. JMO promotes the development of the arts in Ontario by bringing fine classical music to audiences of all ages. As young artists gain valuable experience and exposure, students, families and the general public enjoy high-quality, affordable, accessible musical entertainment. For more information visit jmontario.ca.

ABOUT HARBOURFRONT CENTRE
Harbourfront Centre is an innovative, non-profit cultural organization which provides internationally renowned programming in the arts, culture, education and recreation, all within a collection of distinctive venues on a 10-acre site in the heart of Toronto's downtown waterfront.

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George F. Walker's And So it Goes World Premiere at Factory Theatre

Toronto, ON Tuesday, January 12, 2010 The World Premiere of AND SO IT GOES, written and directed by George F. Walker, continues Artistic Director Ken Gass Factory Theatre 40th Anniversary Season in 2010. Walker has had 23 shows produced at Factory, including three revivals, but this is his first new play in a decade.  AND SO IT GOES plays January 30 February 28, 2010 in the Mainspace Theatre.

Walker has been a huge part of Factorys history, and his plays have resonated in a big way with audiences, says Gass, So that when George called to say that he had written a new play, I pretty much leapt at the opportunity. AND SO IT GOES is quite different stylistically from the East End plays that Walkers audiences are most familiar with, but the intensely obsessed characters, troubled social landscapes and signature Walker humour are ever present.  This is very much a play for our times.

AND SO IT GOES is about Ned and Gwen, middle-class victims of the recession grappling with the fallout of their daughters schizophrenia and Neds downsizing. Pushed to the edge during their downwardly mobile spiral, perhaps the unorthodox therapy of a quirky literary legend may keep them from going all the way over.  Starring Martha Burns (Stratford, Shaw, NAC, Tarragon) as Gwen; Peter Donaldson (Soulpepper, Stratford) as Ned; Jenny Young (Factory, Shaw, Royal Shakespeare Co.) as Karen, their 25-year old daughter; and Jerry Franken (Factory, Tarragon) as Vonnegut. 


The creative team assembled by Walker includes Set & Costume Designer Shawn Kerwin, Lighting Designer Rebecca Picherack and Sound Designer John Roby. The Stage Manager is Joanna Barrotta and the Apprentice Stage Manager is Heather Thompson. Assistant Director Courtney Walker will be making blog entries throughout the rehearsal process to provide behind-the-scenes comments about the creation of this show at http://factorytheatre-andsoitgoes.blogspot.com/.

George F. Walker is one of Canada's most prolific and widely-produced playwrights. He has received nine Chalmers Awards, five Dora Awards, and three Governor Generals Awards. He is also the recipient of the Order of Canada. His plays have met with critical and popular success in hundreds of productions worldwide and have been translated extensively. In 1997, Suburban Motel--six plays located in the same motel room--premiered in Canada under Walker's direction at Factory Theatre. Since then, individual plays from the series have had numerous productions throughout the USA, the UK and Germany. Walkers last play was Heaven (January 2000 at Canadian Stage Company). In addition to his playwriting, Walker has written extensively for television, co-creating three major series: CBCs This is Wonderland, the Movie Networks The Line, and the recently-filmed Living in Your Car. Other screen work includes the feature film Niagara Motel, based on three of the plays from his Suburban Motel cycle, CBS's Due South and CBCs Newsroom.


AND SO IT GOES is 75 minutes long with no intermission. It previews January 30 - 31 and February 2 - 3, opens February 4 and closes February 28, 2010. Shows run Tuesday Saturday, 8 p.m., and on Sunday at 2 p.m. (with the exception of the Sunday, January 31, preview show at 7 p.m.) in the Factory Mainspace Theatre. 

Single tickets run $15 - $35 (discounts for previews, seniors, students or theatre artists as well as groups of ten or more) and may be purchased online at www.factorytheatre.ca 24 hours a day, or by calling (416) 504-9971 or by visiting the Factory Theatre Box Office in person Tuesday through Saturday, 1 p.m. - 7 p.m., at 125 Bathurst Street (at Adelaide Street), Toronto. In addition, 3play subscriptions, Pay-What-You-Can Sunday and a limited number of $10 RUSH tickets (Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday) are also available.

Factorys 2009/2010 season continues with the World Premiere of ahdri zhina mandielas who knew grannie: a dub aria (March 13 April 4) produced by Obsidian Theatre Company in association with Factory Theatre, and Walkers Featuring Loretta (May 1 June 6).  Where the Blood Mixes, by Kevin Loring, winner of the 2009 Governor Generals Literary Award for Drama, plays April 7 18, headlining Factorys annual Performance Spring/CrossCurrents Festival, April 6 25. See www.factorytheatre.ca.

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SHOW The World Premiere of And So It Goes by playwright/director George F. Walker is about Ned and Gwen, middle-class victims of the recession grappling with the fallout of their daughters schizophrenia and Neds downsizing. Pushed to the edge during their downwardly mobile spiral, perhaps the unorthodox therapy of a quirky literary legend may keep them from going all the way over.  Starring Martha Burns, Peter Donaldson, Jerry Franken and Jenny Young; LENGTH 75 minutes - no intermission; DATES January 30 February 28, 2010; TIMES Tuesday Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. (exception is Sunday, January 31, 7 p.m.); TICKET PRICES $15 previews (January 30 31 & February 2 3); $25 Tuesday Thursday; $35 Friday Saturday; P-W-Y-C Sunday or $25 in advance; $10 limited RUSH Tickets Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday (7 p.m. lineup and 7:50 p.m. purchase); VENUE Factory Theatre Mainspace, 125 Bathurst Street (Adelaide Street Doors); BOX OFFICE (416) 504 9971; WEB PAGE www.factorytheatre.ca.

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Friday, January 15, 2010

Pierre Boulez leads The Cleveland Orchestra in all-French program featuring music by Debussy, Messiaen, and Ravel at Severance Hall on February 4, 6, and 7






Pierre Boulez 


Concerts are part of international celebrations of Boulezs 85th birthday
   
Pierre-Laurent Aimard is soloist in Ravels Piano Concerto  in G major and Concerto for the Left Hand


CLEVELAND, January 12, 2010 In the first week of Cleveland concerts marking the 85th birthday year and the 45th anniversary year of Pierre Boulezs American professional orchestra debut with The Cleveland Orchestra, the conductor/composer will lead the Orchestra in a program of French music including Debussys Ibria from Images and Messiaens LAscension at Severance Hall on Thursday, February 4, at 8 p.m., Saturday, February 6, at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, February 7, at 3:00 p.m.  Mr. Boulez will also conduct the Orchestra in concerts on February 11, 12, and 13, featuring music by Mahler.  (A separate concert announcement will follow.) 
The program for February 4, 6, and 7 begins with Olivier Messiaens LAscension (Four Symphonic Meditations). Next is Maurice Ravels Piano Concerto in G major.  After intermission, the program continues with Ravels Piano Concerto in D major for the Left Hand.  The program concludes with Claude Debussys Ibria from Images.
Mr. Boulez, who from 1970-72 served as musical advisor of The Cleveland Orchestra, turns 85 on March 26.   He has been a regular and favorite guest conductor of the Orchestra, leading more than 200 concerts. Among his many recordings with the Orchestra, five have won Grammy Awards, including the 1969 award in the Best Classical Performance, Orchestra category, for their album including Debussys Images.
When Pierre Boulez turned 80, the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, Ķ how many enfants terribles of the music world have lived to see their work, their contributions as composers, conductors and advocates celebrated around the world as they mark their 80th birthdays? The category is unique, and the sole designate is Pierre Boulez.  
  Pierre-Laurent Aimard will be soloist in both of the Ravel piano concertos, which will be recorded live for future release on the Deutsche Gramophone label.  Mr. Boulez and Mr. Aimard have worked together as colleagues over many years, since Pierre Boulez appointed Mr. Aimard (then age 19) as the first solo pianist of the Ensemble InterContemporain the Paris-based contemporary music ensemble Mr. Boulez founded in 1976.


GUEST ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
            French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez is regarded as one of the worlds most distinguished musicians.  His 2009 Kyoto Prize affirms the importance of his compositions and activities as author, teacher, and advocate of contemporary music. 
Mr. Boulez made his American professional orchestra debut with The Cleveland Orchestra in March 1965.  In 1969, he became the Orchestras first principal guest conductor.  Following the death of Music Director George Szell in July 1970, he served as musical advisor through the 1971-72 season.  Since then, he has been a frequent guest conductor with the Orchestra, most recently in February 2008. 
Pierre Boulez was born in 1925 in Montbrison, France.  After initial training in mathematics, he studied piano, composition, and choral conducting at the Paris Conservatory, where his teachers included Olivier Messiaen and Ren Leibowitz.  In 1953, Mr. Boulez founded a modern music concert series that later became the Domaine Musical.  Throughout the next decade, he taught at Basel University and in Darmstadt, and was a visiting professor at Harvard University.  He later joined the faculty at the Collge de France.
In 1971, Pierre Boulez became music director of both the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic; he held the posts until 1975 and 1977, respectively.  In 1974, French President Georges Pompidou invited Mr. Boulez to establish and direct a music research center the Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM).  He also founded the Ensemble InterContemporain, and now holds honorary positions with both organizations.
Pierre Boulez has fostered close relationships with the worlds major orchestras and opera companies.  His conducting highlights include the inaugural concert of the Cit de la musique in Paris; a four-orchestra festival of his compositions in Tokyo; tours with the London Symphony Orchestra celebrating his 70th, 75th, and 80th birthdays; and new productions of Bartks Bluebeards Castle, Schoenbergs Moses and Aron, and Wagners Parsifal.  More recently, Mr. Boulez has led Janeks From the House of the Dead in Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam, and Vienna; served as composer-in-residence at Salzburgs Mozartwoche; and conducted Mahlers complete symphonies at Carnegie Hall.
            An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist since 1992, Pierre Boulez has focused his discography on 20th-century works.  His recordings have garnered Gramophone, Echo, and Deutscher Schallplatten awards and more than 25 Grammys.  Mr. Boulez also has received the Glenn Gould Prize and Wolf Prize, numerous honorary doctorates, and many other awards.


            French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard is acclaimed as a key figure in both the music of our time and the standard piano repertoire.  He made his Cleveland Orchestra debut in February 1996.  Mr. Aimard appeared with the Orchestra at the Lucerne Festival in August 2008, in the world premiere of George Benjamins Duet for piano and orchestra, and in subsequent performances of the work at Severance Hall in September 2008 and at Carnegie Hall in February 2009.  He served as artist-in-residence with the Orchestra for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons.
          Born in Lyon, France, in 1957, Pierre-Laurent Aimard studied at the Paris Conservatory with Yvonne Loriod, and in London with Maria Curcio.  He received first prize in the 1973 Messiaen Competition and was appointed at age 19 by Pierre Boulez as the Ensemble InterContemporains first solo pianist.  For nearly 20 years, Mr. Aimard collaborated with Gyrgy Ligeti, and he has recorded Ligetis complete works.  Pierre-Laurent Aimard received the Royal Philharmonic Societys Instrumentalist Award in 2005 and 2006, and was named Musical Americas Instrumentalist of the Year in 2007. 
Mr. Aimard performs with the worlds leading orchestras and conductors.  He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2001 and maintains a regular relationship there, as well as with the Berlin Philharmonic, Konzerthaus Vienna, Lucerne Festival, Mozarteum Salzburg, Philharmonie Cologne, and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.  His teaching activities include professorships in Paris and Cologne, as well as concert lectures and workshops worldwide.  Mr. Aimard served as inaugural artist-in-residence at the Salle de Concerts Grande-Duchesse Josephine-Charlotte in Luxembourg in 2005 to 2006, became an artistic partner with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in 2006, and in 2008 was artistic director of the Southbank Centres Messiaen centenary festival in London.  In 2009, he became artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival in England.    
           Pierre-Laurent Aimard has an extensive discography with Sony Classical and Teldec, and now records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon.  His first DG release, Bachs Art of the Fugue, won the Diapason dOr award and the prize for the Choc du Monde de la Musique.  Mr. Aimard also has received two ECHO Classic Awards:  in 2003 for his recording of the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos, and in 2004 for Debussys Images and Etudes.  His recording of Ivess Concord Sonata and Songs with Susan Graham garnered a 2005 Grammy Award.  Mr. Aimards recent releases include solo works by Carter, Messiaen, and Ravel, and the Mozart piano concertos, which he conducted from the keyboard.

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Celebrated Australian trio Splintergroup showcase incredible physicality and inspired storytelling harvested from myths and paranoia of the outback

TORONTO, ON (Jan. 12, 2010) Harbourfront Centres World Stage 2009-10 performing arts series resumes this winter with the celebrated Brisbane-based company Splintergroup and the intense contemporary dance-theatre piece roadkill. This edge-of-your-seat show runs four performances only, Feb. 3 6, at Harbourfront Centres Enwave Theatre.

Choreographed by Gavin Webber, Grayson Millwood and Sarah-Jayne Howard, the trio of collaborators who currently comprise Splintergroup, roadkill is set in Australias legendary and treacherous outback. A couple are stranded with a car that wont start next to a phone booth that doesnt work with a mobile phone out of range. The vast and unforgiving outback offers them little salvation, until a stranger comes along who seems all too eager to help. Splintergroup brings exceptional physicality to the stage in this work that explores dark and terrifying themes.

With a cinematic feel, roadkill surveys both the hyper-realized folklore of the outback and the realities of being stranded in its almost limitless emptiness. Drawing on similar themes from news headlines such as the recent and infamous Falconio case wherein an Australian man was convicted of murder and assault on a couple travelling through the outback and the horror film genre, such as the 2005 film Wolf Creek, roadkill is a gripping foray into the psychology of isolation in the midst of imminent danger.

Splintergroup boast unorthodox movement and an arsenal of wildly inventive choreography, notably demonstrated with the use of the couples car a red Toyota which sits centre stage throughout the show as the site of many dazzling and innovative performance feats. The much heralded sound design of Luke Smiles sinister soundtrack adds to the unnerving drama, and the clever lighting design from Mark Howett creates a spine-chilling environment where the audience never knows what lies beyond the dark edges of the stage.

*Media images and resources: http://media.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage/

New for World Stage 2009-10: Visit harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage to learn about Harbourfront Centres commitment to developing artists and audiences through World Stage initiatives and programmes, such as special events, artist talks and more.

roadkill
Choreographed by Splintergroup

Produced by Brisbane Powerhouse and Dancenorth
Feb. 3 6, 8 p.m. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West, Toronto
Tickets: $30

Creative Team Choreographers: Gavin Webber, Grayson Millwood & Sarah-Jayne Howard
Performers: Gavin Webber, Grayson Millwood & Gabrielle Nankivell
Dramaturg: Andrew Ross
Sound Design: Luke Smiles / motion laboratories
Lighting Designer: Mark Howett
Rehearsal Director: Michelle Ryan
Stage Manager: Melanie Dyer
Production Manager: Liam Kennedy

Complete information about performance times, single tickets, packages and the Performance Card ($15 tickets for arts workers and students, Tues. Thurs. performances only) is available through the Harbourfront Centre box office by phone at 416-973-4000, or harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage.

Harbourfront Centres World Stage 2009-10 gratefully acknowledges the support of Department of Canadian Heritage, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and Westin Harbour Castle, the official hotel of World Stage.

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Kaufman Center and New York Festival of Song Present The Voluptuous Muse



 MASTERS OF ROMANTICISM, FEBRUARY 16 AND 18
AT MERKIN CONCERT HALL

ARTISTS: DINA KUZNETSOVA, KATE LINDSEY, JOSEPH KAISER,
STEVEN BLIER AND MICHAEL BARRETT


On Tuesday and Thursday, February 16 and 18 at 8 PM, Kaufman Center and New York Festival of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org) present The Voluptuous Muse, a celebration of the lush tonality and decadent Romanticism of late 19th- and early 20th- century song. NYFOS will bring its A-list artistry (TimeOut NY) to the music of Richard Strauss, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alban Berg, Gustav Mahler, and Karol Szymanowski. The concerts will be presented at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, 129 West 67th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue), New York, NY 10023.

Tickets, $40 - $55 with group discounts, are available by calling 212-501-3330, or visiting www.kaufman-center.org. In addition, there are a limited amount ospecial $15 student discounts available by calling New York Festival Of Song at 646-230-8380.

The artists will be tenor Joseph Kaiser, a rising young star of the Metropolitan Opera who just scored a major triumph at the Opra Comique in Paris in the rarely-performed operetta Fortunio; Dina Kuznetsova, the Russian-American soprano who starred as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin opposite Dmitri Hvorostovsky at the Chicago Lyric Opera; mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey, another fast-emerging Met artist, most recently heard in their new production of The Tales of Hoffmann; NYFOS Artistic Director Steven Blier (A national treasure when it comes to the art of song The New York Times) and Associate Artistic Director Michael Barrett (General Director of the Caramoor Center For Music and the Arts) as pianist/hosts.

NYFOSs next concert at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center will be The Sweetest Path, on March 16. This program, which celebrates the first great flowering of French art song, is the second annual collaboration between NYFOS and the Caramoor Vocal Rising Stars program. It will also be presented on March 13 in the Music Room at Caramoor. The NYFOS season ends with The Newest Deal (May 4 and 6), a program of recent American works including the premiere of the Harold Meltzer song cycle Beautiful Ohio*, created for and performed by tenor Paul Appleby, and a complete performance of Gabriel Kahanes instant classic, Craigslistlieder.


Program to include:

JOSEPH MARX                                     Marienlied                                                                    
FRANZ SCHREKER                            Sommerfden
NICOLAI MEDTNER                          Elfenlied
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY             GeflsterderNacht
                                                                      HeiligeNacht
GUSTAV MAHLER                              Frhlingsmorgen
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF              Kakojeschastje(What wealth of rapture)

From Opus 38
Daisies
Pied Piper
Dreams
                                                                       
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV     Pan
                                                                        Song of Songs
RICHARD STRAUSS                            Liebeshymnus
                                                                          Ich trage meine Minne
                        Nichts 

KAROL SZYMANOWSKI                   selections from Pienimuezinaszalonego
                                                                           (Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin)                        
ALBAN BERG                                        selections from Siebenfrhe Lieder                      
HUGO WOLF                                           Ganymed             
MAHLER                                                    Scheiden und Meiden
                                                                       
(Program subject to change)

Composers

Erich Korngold (1897 1957). Called (with Max Steiner) the father of film music, he created famous movie scores, but also romantic instrumental and vocal classical music, including the opera Die Todt Stadt. His work was praised by such composers as Richard Strauss and Giacomo Puccini.

Gustav Mahler (1860 1911) wrote mainly symphonies and songs, often fusing the two into symphonic lied. He was greatly influenced by Wagner, but his work is also distinguished by the use of folk themes and progressive tonality.

Joseph Marx (1882-1964) was an Austrian composer of opera, symphonies, symphonic poems, choral works, piano concertos, songs, and chamber music, as well as organ and piano music, characterized by modern harmonies and complex polyphony.

Nikolai Medtner (1880 1951) was a Russian composer who wrote a substantial number of instrumental and vocal compositions, all of which include the piano. His work was characterized by an intimate connection with Russian poetry and its images.

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was the last great representative of Russian late romanticism. His music had a thoroughly personal idiom which included lyricism, expressive breadth, often unique structure and rich, distinctive orchestral colors.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 1908) composed operas, symphonies and smaller-scaled works laced with Russian folk and exotic harmonic elements mixed with traditional Western composition. He is considered a main creator of the Russian style of composition, and taught and influenced many prominent 20th-century composers.

Richard Strauss (1864 1949) was one of the most famous late romantic/early modern era composers. Profoundly influenced by Wagner, he created operas (including the Der Rosenkavalier and Salome), lieder and tone poems.

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) was born in Russia to a Polish family, and his music drew on Polish folk styles and those of contemporary Russian and French composers. He wrote orchestral and solo instrumental works, as well as songs and choral works in a highly individual rhapsodic style.

Hugo Wolf (1860 1903) created instrumental and vocal works, but was most famous for his hundreds of songs, greatly influenced by Richard Wagner. They are marked by their concentrated intensity, using tonality to express feeling.

Alexander Zemlinsky (18711942), a protge of Johannes Brahms, wrote orchestral works, operas, chamber music, choral works and songs, influenced by his teacher, Wagner, Mahler and others. He also taught, and among his students was Erich Korngold.

BIOS THE ARTISTS

Joseph Kaiser - Over the past year, the young tenor has performed the title role of Faust at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis; the title role of Messagers Fortunio at the Opra Comique under the baton of Louis Langre; and the role of Admete in Glucks Alceste at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, also with Mr. Langre.  The artist sings the role of Narraboth in a concert performance of Salome with Valery Gergiev and the Verbier Festival Orchestra, Beethovens Symphony No. 9 with Ivor Bolton and the Wiener Symphoniker at Viennas Konzerthaus, and Stravinskys Pulcinella with Roberto Abbado and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Other recent roles have included Tamino in Die Zauberflte under the baton of James Conlon at the Los Angeles Opera and as Steva Burja in Jenfa at the Bayerische Staatsoper in a new production by Swiss theatre director Barbara Frey, conducted by Kirill Petrenko.  He returned to the Salzburg Festival as Septimius in a new Christoph Loy production of Handels Theodora, conducted by Ivor Bolton, and sang Narraboth in Salome at the Metropolitan Opera, (where he had previously played Romeo to the Juliet of Anna Netrebko) with Patrick Summers conducting (seen internationally on The Met: Live in HD experience).  His dynamic concert schedule has featured performances of the Berlioz Requiem, under Marek Janowski, with the combined forces of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zrich and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Beethovens Symphony No. 9 with Christoph von Dohnnyi and the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Mendelssohns Elijah with Yannick Nzet-Sguin and the Orchestre Mtropolitain du Grand Montral, and a European concert tour with soprano Annette Dasch and Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrcken Kaiserslautern under the direction of Christoph Poppen. He can be heard with the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in the NYFOS performance of Spanish Love Songs, accompanied by Steven Blier on Bridge Records.

Dina Kuznetsova - the Moscow-born soprano graduated from The Academic Music College of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (piano). She received her vocal training at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In 1999, while attending the Music Academy of the West, California, Dina Kuznetsova sang the title role in Handel's Rodelinda and won the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition, which granted her a New York debut recital in May 2000. That summer, she gave a duet recital under the auspices of Renata Scotto's Opera Academy in Savona, Italy. Ms. Kuznetsova's international performances in a wide variety of lyric and coloratura repertoire began with Merab in Saul in Brussels, followed by Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and Adina in L'elisir d'amore (Berlin Staatsoper), Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi (London's English National Opera) and the title role in Rodelinda (Munich's Staatsoper). She has brought her Musetta to San Francisco, her Violetta to Costa Mesa (Opera Pacific) and Boston Lyric Opera, and her Gilda to Boston Lyric Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Cincinatti. Kuznetsova sang the title role in The Cunning Little Vixen at Lyric Opera of Chicago. She also returned there as Juliette in Romeo et Juliette. Highlights of the past year included a return to the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin opposite Dmitri Hvorostovsky and conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, her Vienna State Opera debut as Gounod's Juliette and her Royal Opera and Covent Garden debut as Lauretta in a new production of Gianni Schicchi.

Kate Lindsey returns this season to the Metropolitan Opera in the role of Nicklausse in Offenbachs Les Contes DHoffmann, and makes her debut at the Bayerische Staatsopera as Cherubino in Mozarts Le Nozze di Figaro. A graduate of the Metropolitan Operas Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Lindseys roles with the company have also included Cherubino, Wellgunde in Wagners Ring, Stphano in Gounods Romo et Juliette, and Sibel in Gounods Faust. Additional performances include Cherubino at Thatre des Champs-lyses and Boston Lyric Opera, Lazuli in Chabriers toile and Angelina in Rossinis Cenerentola at Wolf Trap Opera. As a Young Artist at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Lindsey sang Mercds in Bizets Carmen, Stphano, and Rosina. She made her debut with Santa Fe Opera as Zerlina in Mozarts Don Giovanni, and returns to the company this summer as Nancy in Brittens Albert Herring and Nicklausse. Concert performances include Ascanius in Berliozs Les Troyens at the Tanglewood Music Festival and Ravels L Enfant et les sortilges with the New York Philharmonic, as well as performances with the Mostly Mozart Festival and the Cleveland Orchestra. She will make her Seattle Opera debut this year in the title role in Daron Aric Hagens Amelia.

Steven Blier
Artistic director Steven Blier co-founded the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) in 1988 with Michael Barrett. Since the Festivals inception he has programmed, performed, translated and annotated over one hundred vocal recitals with repertoire spanning the entire range of American song, art song from Schubert to Szymanowski, and popular song from early vaudeville to Lennon-McCartney.

Mr. Blier also enjoys an eminent career as an accompanist and vocal coach. His recitals with Rene Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Samuel Ramey, Susan Graham, Frederica von Stade, and Jessye Norman, have taken him to the stages of Carnegie Hall, La Scala, and Londons Wigmore Hall. He has premiered works of John Corigliano, Ned Rorem, William Bolcom, John Musto, Paul Moravec, Tobias Picker, Robert Beaser, and Lee Hoiby, many of which were commissioned by NYFOS.

In addition to his many recordings with NYFOS, Mr. Bliers discography includes four volumes of songs by Charles Ives with baritone William Sharp (Albany Records), a Grammy-nominated CD of American songs with Mr. Sharp (New World Records), and first recordings of music by Busoni and Borodin with cellist Dorothy Lawson (Koch International). His two most recent releases are The Land Where the Good Songs Go with Sylvia McNair and Hal Cazalet, and Spanish Love Songs with Joseph Kaiser and the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (Bridge Records).

Mr. Blier is on the faculty of The Juilliard School, and has been active in encouraging young recitalists at summer programs, including the Wolf Trap Opera Company, Glimmerglass Opera, and the San Francisco Opera Center.

Michael Barrett
NYFOS co-founder and Associate Artistic Director Michael Barrett is Chief Executive and General Director of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. In 1992, he co-founded the Moab Music Festival with his wife, violist Leslie Tomkins. From 1994 to 1997, he was the Director of the Tisch Center for the Arts at the 92nd Street Y in New York.

A protg of Leonard Bernstein, Mr. Barrett began his long association with the renowned conductor and composer as a student in 1982. He is currently the Artistic Advisor for the estate of Leonard Bernstein. Mr. Barrett has been a guest conductor with the Orchestra of St. Lukes, the New York Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de France, among others. He also has served variously as conductor, producer, and music director of numerous special projects, including the world premiere of Volpone by John Musto.

Mr. Barretts discography includes: Spanish Love Songs, recorded live at Caramoor with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Steven Blier, and Joseph Kaiser; Live from the Moab Music Festival; the Grammy-nominated Evidence of Things Not Seen (New World Records); Aaron Kernis: 100 Greatest Dance Hits (New Albion); On the Town (Deutsche Grammophon); Kaballah (Koch Classics) by Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie; Schumann Lieder with Lorraine Hunt and Kurt Ollman (Koch); and Arias and Barcarolles (Koch) by Leonard Bernstein (Grammy Award).

New York Festival of Song was founded in 1988 by Steven Blier and Michael Barrett.  NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty, humor and originality, combining music, poetry, and history to entertain, educate and create community among audiences and performers. With a far-ranging repertoire of art songs, concert works and theater pieces, its thematic recitals have included programs from Brahms to the Beatles, from the nineteenth-century salons of Paris to Tin Pan Alley, from Russian art song to Argentine tangos, from sixteenth-century lute songs to new music.  NYFOS particularly celebrates American song literature and culture, and specializes in premiering and commissioning new American works.

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Julian Bliss to Tour the United States

Starting in January, Julian Bliss, international clarinet soloist, will begin a tour of the United States, visiting Alabama, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Nevada. While on the road, Julian will present recitals, masterclasses, and clinics at universities and public schools in the South, Midwest, and Nevada. He will also make appearances at the Alabama and Illinois Music Educators Association Conferences. Stop by the Conn-Selmer booth at the Alabama Music Educators Association Conference in Tuscaloosa, Alabama January 20th - 23rd to meet Julian. He will also be at the booth during the Illinois Music Educators Association Conference January 28th - 30th in Peoria Illinois. On January 24th, Julian will present a recital and master class from 3 PM to 5 PM at the Recital Hall at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana. 
 
Julian's tour through the Midwest will continue with appearances at Conn-Selmer dealers, public school districts, and universities in late January. The Band Source in Downer's Grove, Illinois will host a "Meet and Greet" with Julian on January 25th. Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois welcomes Julian on January 27th, where he will present a masterclass from 6 PM to 7 PM for the Department of Music at the Sloane College of Communications and Fine Arts. On January 26th, The Music Shoppe in Bloomington, Illinois will host an in-store event with Julian as well. Julian will visit schools in Elkhart and Mishawaka, Indiana on February 1st, followed by a visit to the Grand Rapids, Michigan area on February 2nd. Several school and dealer visits in the Detroit area are scheduled for February 3rd and 4th. The tour will conclude with a performance and school clinics in the Las Vegas, Nevada area February 5th and 6th. 

 
If Julian is in your area during the tour, please make sure to meet him and learn more about the new line of Bliss clarinets. For complete information please visit our artist news website at http://centerstage.conn-selmer.com/

 
Conn-Selmer, Inc. is the largest manufacturer of band and orchestral instruments and accessories in the United States and a subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. To contact Conn-Selmer, write to P.O. Box 310, Elkhart, IN 46515-0310 U.S.A. or visit www.conn-selmer.com.

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Sunday Showcase: Celebrate the marriage between the music of medieval magic and folk-art celebration in European Inspirations



Sunday, January 17th 2:00 pm

Edmonton, AB Ķ Music of medieval magic and folk-art celebration come together in your Edmonton Symphony Orchestras (ESO) first Sunday Showcase series event of 2010.  On Sunday, January 17th, Music Director William Eddins will fill ENMAX Hall of the Francis Winspear Centre for Music with the sounds of European inspired works by Dvok, Liszt, Arutunian, Estacio, and Falla. 

Young promising Canadian pianist, Shean Competition winner, and Juilliard graduate student Daniel Fung joins the ESO on stage for Liszts Totentanz, a dazzling showpiece of daring stylistic innovations based on the famous monastic chant Dies iraeNot to be outdone, our Principal Trumpet Robin Doyon plays Arutunians Trumpet Concerto, an energetic concerto of Eastern European lyricism and harmonic texture.  Resident Conductor Lucas Waldin will lead the orchestra through John Estacios poignant work for strings Such Sweet Sorrow, which will be complemented by a suite from Falla's wonderful comic ballet The Three-Cornered Hat, and Dvok's celebratory Carnival Overture.

Post-concert, guests are invited to sit down, relax, and engage in a casual conversation with Lucas Waldin and Daniel Fung in the main lobby.  Sunday Coffee Shop offers a uniquely interactive Q&A setting with our Resident Conductor and guest artists this season.

Flute duo Chiara and Juliana Concini will be performing in the main lobby beginning at 1:15 pm, as part of our Musicians in the Making program, generously supported by TELUS.

Ticket prices range from $20 $65 (agency fees apply), and are available through the Winspear Centre Box Office.  Call (780) 428-1414, toll-free 1-800-563-5081, or purchase online at www.edmontonsymphony.com.

The next performance of the Sunday Showcase series takes place on March 21st, 2010.  Acclaimed Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra makes her ESO debut presenting richly colourful musical blends of tango and classical tradition.  Marimbist Pius Cheung appears as guest soloist, performing a Bach masterpiece as youve never heard it before.

Thank you to our season media sponsor CBC, and our series media sponsors CKUA Radio Network and Edmontons Child.

Sponsorship inquiries can be directed to Marc Carnes, Director of Development, at (780) 401-2518.

The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, marking its 58th season in 2009-2010, has taken its place as one of Canada's foremost orchestral ensemble.  Its current roster includes 56 musicians from Canada and around the world, performing a wide-ranging repertoire from the great classical masterworks to pops and children's concerts. The presence of the orchestra and its enrichment of the community's quality of life are key elements in the stature and profile of Edmonton on the national and international scene.

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Foodies invited to join the WSO on a gourmet

Winnipeg, MB January 11, 2010 Winnipeg foodies are invited to explore the world of music and food as the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO) and four fine dining establishments partner up to provide lovers of fine cuisine and symphony music with a gourmet journey all in one location at the Centennial Concert Hall.

The Winnipeg Symphony will be presenting a gourmet journey of food and music in partnership with: Fude, Bistro 7 , Bergmanns on Lombard and Lobby on York.

Each restaurant will be offering a three course meal that is themed to a specific WSO concert - thereby offering patrons a unique opportunity to explore cuisine from Russia, the New World, North America, Italy and Mexico.

The WSO wants to create memorable musical experiences for audience members. One way we can do this is by considering the opportunities to build other pleasurable components into a concert evening. Winnipeg has so many fine restaurants and chefs, and we can make it easy to explore new restaurants with cuisine inspired by the musical offerings in the concert, said Trudy Schroeder, Executive Director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.

The dates of the four dining and concert experiences are as follows:

January 23: Rhythm & Heat ~ Local & Inspired Cuisine
Rhythm & Heat examines the exotic flavours and rhythms from Mexico, Spain and Egypt in partnership with Fude (dinner at 5:30 pm; concert at 8:00 pm).

Cardini Salad (Fude version of classic Caesar):
Field greens, leaf lettuce and artichoke hearts, tossed with
house-made cardini vinaigrette, topped with fresh parmesan cheese

Chili Chocolate Chicken with Cayenne Cream:
Manitoba free range chicken breast, seared then grilled to finish, slathered in a house-made dark chocolate sauce off-set with a spicy cayenne cream and chilies. Served with our featured potatoes & featured veggies

Or
Boomerang Gorang:
An Indonesian classic reworked Manitoba-style, curried basmati & Lac
du Bonnet wild rice sauted in exclusive boom sauce with celery, red peppers, red onion & bananas, topped with mango, pineapple, tart apples to bring on the cool house-made rhubarb chutney (vegan friendly)

Grand Marnier-Callebaut Chocolate Mousse Flute

February 20: Boreyko and Russian Masters ~ Russian Cuisine
Boreyko and Russian Masters explores the monumental and raw with former WSO music director Andrey Boreyko in partnership with Bistro 7 (dinner at 5:30 pm; concert at 8:00 pm).

Zakuski:
An array of marinated mushrooms, minsk eggs, meat and cabbage piragi, russian potato salad, cured fish and pickled vegetables to be eaten with dark bread and ice cold vodka

Beet caviar with sour cream and potato blini
Coulibiac:
Salmon or Cabbage cooked in pastry with vegetables served with horseradish sauce and green beans

Trio of Aleksandr Torte, Gogol Mogol and Strawberries Romanoff
March 27: Classic Movie Heroes and Villains ~ American Cuisine
Classic Movie Heroes and Villains delves into a musical battle of good vs. evil, featuring the themes of some of your favourite pop culture heroes and villains with Bergmanns on Lombard (dinner at 5:30 pm; concert at 8:00 pm).

Hero Spinach Salad:
Shaved Red Onion, Mushrooms, Bothwell Cheese Crumble and Creamy Herb Dijonette

Slow Roasted Breast of Chicken Martini:
Crowned with a Vermouth Jazzed Olive & Tomato Tapenade
Set on Fire Roasted Bell Pepper Infused Angry Rice
Sinister Streaked Balsamic Current Reduction

Or
Bow tie pasta with truffle cream, vegetable julienne and parmesan
All American Apple Pie with Vanilla Bean Ice Cream and Caramel Drizzle
May 15: Pines, Fountains & Festivals ~ Italian Cuisine
Pines, Fountains & Festivals investigates the colour and pageantry of Rome brought to life through Respighis stunning orchestral trilogy in partnership with Lobby on York (dinner at 5:30 pm; concert at 8:00 pm).

Insalata Caprese

Veal Marsala with Mushroom Risotto
Or
Penne with Grilled Peppers and Rose Sauce
Panna Cotta garnished with Berries

Prices are $85 per person for each event, which includes the meal and a ticket to the concert. Concert goers who already have a ticket to these concerts can enjoy the meal for just $60 per person. Or create a world package tour and enjoy all four dinner and concert events for only $75 per person per evening.

Tickets for the dinner and concert are only available through the WSO box office at 949-3999, online at www.wso.ca.

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The Victoria Symphony rolls out the red carpet for A Night at the Oscars

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January 11, 2010
Victoria, BC On January 14, 15 & 16, Regina Symphony Orchestras Music Director Victor Sawa conducts Oscar-winning music with the Victoria Symphony at the Royal Theatre.  Symphony goers will walk the red carpet as they make their way into the theatre for a glamorous evening of music from movies such as Lawrence of Arabia, Psycho, The Way We Where and Jaws.

A Night at the Oscars, led by Regina Symphony Orchestras Music Director Victor Sawa, was first introduced into the Victoria Symphony Pops series in 2008. Brought back by popular demand, this years programme features music filled with action, adventure and a little bit of romance.  From early scores, 1938s The Adventures of Robin Hood, to major blockbuster hits, 2008s Dark Knight, this concert will entertain all audiences.  Full concert programme is available at www.victoriasymphony.ca

These concerts are not only full of great music but also a lot of fun. We hope that the audience gets into the glamour of the evening by dressing the part, strutting on the red carpet and smiling for the cameras as they head into the Royal Theatre for an exciting live performance of award-winning music states Bethany Wilson, Director of Marketing and Development.

Maestro Victor Sawa, Music Director of the Regina Symphony Orchestra, is known for his impressive reputation, engaging audience interaction and passion for bringing new faces to classical and pops performances.  Sawa has made several guest appearances all over the world and won countless awards, including the Queen's Jubilee Medal and a Grammy.

The Victoria Symphony is Vancouver Islands largest and most active arts organization performing for more than 125,000 people each year, including 10,000 schoolchildren. Showcasing the outstanding talents of its musicians and guest artists, the Victoria Symphonys 2009-2010 season offers a diverse and exciting line-up of over 50 concerts led by its vibrant Music Director Tania Miller.

The Victoria Symphony wishes to acknowledge the generous support of series sponsor Beltone Better Hearing Centre.

For complete programming details of the 2009-2010 season please visit www.victoriasymphony.ca.

A Night at the Oscars
January 14, 2:00 pm
January 15 & 16, 8:00 pm
Royal Theatre
$30.50, $39.50, $50.50
$20.10 (web special), $12.00 (vsSoundcheck)

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Boston Baroque Performs its Grammy-Nominated Interpretation of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610

AT CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
Saturday March 6, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.
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A MASTERPIECE WITHIN A MASTERPIECE
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PERFORMANCE MARKS THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE MONTEVERDI VESPERS
AND BOSTON BAROQUES
FIRST NEW YORK APPEARANCE IN 25 YEARS

Boston Baroque, the first permanent Baroque orchestra in North America, will perform Monteverdis masterpiece, the Vespers of 1610, under the leadership of music director Martin Pearlman, on Saturday, March 6, 2010.  The performance will take place within another masterpiecethe Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the largest Gothic cathedral in the world.  With its extraordinary beauty and scale, the Cathedral will provide a dramatic setting for the Vespers, which, in its own time, brilliantly exploited the spatial and acoustical possibilities of St. Marks Basilica in Venice.  The performance will mark both the 400th anniversary of the Vespers publication and Boston Baroques first appearance in New York since the mid 1980s (a Carnegie Hall performance of Handels Messiah under the ensembles original name, Banchetto Musicale).
Tickets for the March 6 concert, at $20, $35 and $55, are available online at www.BostonBaroque.org and www.Stjohndivine.org; and from Boston Baroque by telephone at 617/484-9200.

 
MONTEVERDI, VESPERS OF 1610
Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman, conductor
Mary Wilson ............ soprano
Kristen Watson ....... soprano
Derek Chester ......... tenor
Aaron Sheehan ........ tenor
Lawrence Jones ....... tenor
Sumner Thompson ... baritone
Donald Wilkinson ..... baritone

 
Saturday, March 6, 2010 8:00 PM
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10025
Tickets: $20, $35 and $55; available online at www.BostonBaroque.org and www.Stjohndivine.org; or by calling 617/484-9200
 

The Vespers is a work of extraordinary emotional power, declares Martin Pearlman, astonishing for the grandeur of its conception and the opulence of its sound.  No other surviving work from that period is written on such a scale, combining the grandest of public music with the most intimate of solo songs.  Like the music itself, our performing forces are on a grand scale: seven solo singers; a chorus large enough to divide into anywhere from four to ten voice parts; and an orchestra with a rich variety of instrumental colors, including virtuosic solo parts for violins and cornetti.

The instrumentation for the Vespers, however, is specified by Monteverdi only in certain movements.  For much of the piece, it is the conductor who determines the orchestration whether and where to double voice parts with instruments, as well as which instruments to use.  It is also left to the conductor to decide whether to assign certain passages to the chorus or to solo singers.  Thus, the piece can vary greatly from one performance to another. 

Boston Baroques recording of the Vespers, in a performing version by Martin Pearlman and under his direction on the Telarc label (catalogue number 80453), received a Grammy nomination in 1998 for Best Choral Performance; and they have performed the work to acclaim in Boston, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and at the Ravinia and Tanglewood music festivals.

About the decision to perform at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Martin Pearlman remarks, For our return to New York City, I was looking for an extraordinary venue worthy of this piece, and was really struck with the sense of space at St. John.  I thought it might well reflect the scale and grandeur of the Vespers, and its profound intimacy as well; but the challenge was to make it work acoustically for a Baroque ensemble.  After an initial visit to the Cathedral in which we tried out instruments and voices in various placements, we began to see that we could carve out an intimate performance area in which we will sound warm, clear and big enough without amplification.  This acoustical sweet spot is almost entirely within the area that they call the Great Crossing, and will hold an audience of just 700, plus a platform for the performers.  The lighting design will add to the sense of intimacy within grandeur that seems perfect for the Vespers.

The New York performance will be presented as part of the Boston University Incite Arts Festival, a New York showcase for the BU College of Fine Arts and its Schools of Music, Theatre, and Visual Art.  Boston Baroque is the resident professional ensemble for Boston Universitys Historical Performance Program, where it is helping to train the next generation of period-instrument performers.
About Boston Baroque and Martin Pearlman
Founded by Martin Pearlman in 1973, Boston Baroque was the first permanent Baroque orchestra established in North America, and is now widely regarded as one of the worlds premier period-instrument ensembles.  Boston Baroque reaches an international audience with its 20 recordings on the Telarc label, three of which received Grammy nominations.  The ensemble produces a subscription concert series in Greater Boston, now in its 36th season, and made its European debut in 2003, performing Handels Messiah to sold-out houses and standing ovations in Krakw and Warsaw, Poland.  In addition to its acclaimed Disney Hall, Ravinia and Tanglewood performances of the Monteverdi Vespers, Boston Baroque has performed Purcells Dido and Aeneas with the Mark Morris Dance Group in Chicago and Ann Arbor.  In 2009, the ensemble made its debut with two programs at the international Casals Festival in San Juan, Puerto Ricothe first period-instrument orchestra invited to perform there.  Boston Baroques latest recording on Telarc, Mozart: Arias for Male Soprano, featuring soloist Michael Maniaci, was released in January 2010.

For more information, visit www.BostonBaroque.org.

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The Segal Centre for Performing Arts Presents Geometry in Venice

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts and Saputo Inc.

In association with Crows Theatre


Present

Geometry in Venice

By Michael Mackenzie

Directed by Chris Abraham

January 31-February 14, 2010

One day you may understand that murder, incest and infanticide are the very stuff of domesticity.
We modern people just practice them in a more...refined garb. Mrs. Moreen

MONTREAL January 2010 - The Segal Theatre is excited to launch the new year with the Montreal English premiere of Geometry in Venice, an intelligent and moving play featuring a stellar director, cast and design team.

Adapted from The Pupil, a novella by Henry James, who himself was inspired by the childhood of painter John Singer Sargent, Geometry in Venice brings us into the lives of the Moreen family, an outwardly aristocratic British family living in Venice towards the end of the nineteenth century. Unlike the novella, award-winning Montreal playwright Michael Mackenzie includes Henry James as one of his characters. 

In this poignant and timely story, Pemberton (played by Graham Cuthbertson) is a Canadian Cambridge grad and aspiring writer who is hired by the Moreens to provide their sickly, genius son Morgan (played by Montrealer Eliott Larson) with a classical education. Desperate to keep up appearances, they travel to the fashionable salons of Europe in search of a wealthy suitor to marry their daughter Amy. Henry James becomes the promising Paris suitor in this reading.

Geometry in Venice is a powerful and timely examination of a familys obsession with wealth and status, raising questions of ethics and morality, says Bryna Wasserman, Artistic Director of the Segal Centre for Performing Arts. In the very capable hands of creative director Chris Abraham, outstanding actor Damien Atkins and other talented cast members, Geometry in Venice promises to provide an exceptional time at the theatre.

Damien Atkins, who has delivered excellent performances at the Segal in the past, says he looks forward to playing the role of Henry James. I am excited to work again with Chris Abraham, with whom I collaborated on one of the most richly rewarding theatrical experiences of my life, The Glass Menagerie.

The set created by Julie Fox is dramatic, Spartan, and its unique colour palette of whites, sand tones and cool beach hues are meant to reflect the Lido beach in Venice. A grand piano will be played by the young prodigy.

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Geometry in Venice. The play was performed in French for 5 years as Le Prcepteur and has also been produced in German, Italian and Chinese.

Other cast members include: Allegra Fulton as Mrs. Moreen (Stratford, solo tour-de-force Frida K.); Aiden Devine as Mr. Moreen (Balconville, multi-awards for film and television); and Susanna Fournier as Amy (Segals The Diary of Anne Frank).

The integral designs are by Julie Fox, set and costume; Luc Prairie, lighting; and Antoine Bdard, sound. Merissa Tordjman is the stage manager and Luciana Burcheri completes the team as assistant stage manager.

Sunday @ the Segal - January 31 at 11am
In keeping with the Segal Centres objective to enhance the theatregoing experience, we are also pleased to announce that the playwright has accepted to give a lecture about his play.  Michael Mackenzie will talk about what inspired him to write Geometry in Venice and describe his process of translating Henry James to the stage.

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Le pianiste Raoul Sosa devient membre de l'ordre du Canada

MONTRAL, 11 janvier 2010.   Raoul Sosa vient tout juste d'tre honor comme Membre de l'Ordre du Canada pour sa contribution l'avancement de la musique au pays en tant que pianiste, compositeur, chef d'orchestre et professeur et pour la dtermination avec laquelle il a poursuivi sa carrire.

Interprte  la fois exceptionnel et authentique, le pianiste, chef d'orchestre et compositeur qubcois  Raoul Sosa  est considr par la critique locale et internationale comme un des musiciens actuels les plus importants.

Raoul Sosa est un spcialiste de la musique romantique, bien que son panorama musical embrasse toutes les poques.  Il est aussi reconnu comme un des plus grands interprtes des uvres pour la main gauche, rpertoire pour lequel il a dvelopp une matrise et une virtuosit qui suscitent lmerveillement.
   
Trs vite,  Raoul Sosa sest impos comme un musicien de premire grandeur et a gagn de nombreux prix dans des concours nationaux en Argentine (Socit Hbraque, Les Jeunesses Musicales, etc.) et internationaux (France, Espagne, Belgique, Canada, etc.).
En 1978, il a reu du Conseil canadien de la musique  Ottawa le Prix de la meilleure mission radiophonique d'un soliste canadien. 

Raoul Sosa est membre du Conseil qubcois de la musique, compositeur agr au Centre de musique canadienne et a sig pendant plusieurs annes au Conseil des arts de Montral.
II s'est acquis une solide rputation, laquelle la amen se produire dans les principaux centres artistiques dAmrique, d'Europe et d'Asie en tant que pianiste, chef dorchestre et pour donner des cours de matre.

C'est un triomphe partout et il laisse une profonde impression sur les musiciens et le public. Les critiques sont unanimes louer la magnifique dimension sonore, musicale et expressive absolument complte qu'il confre ses interprtations. Tokyo, la critique a t sduite par sa sonorit et a parl du pianiste la main gauche en or .

En plus dune triple carrire de chef, pianiste et compositeur, Raoul Sosa est frquemment invit comme expert en technique pianistique et en interprtation et partage son exprience avec de nombreux jeunes musiciens. Professeur de piano et de musique de chambre au Conservatoire de musique de Montral, iI est galement membre du jury de nombreux concours.

La faon unique de Raoul Sosa de faire chanter le piano et sa grande sensibilit expliquent bien pourquoi la rputation de cet artiste de chez nous a depuis longtemps dpass nos frontires.

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Information vegetable, animal and mineral: Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance



EDMONTON, AB Complete with high-jinx, high-silliness and high-notes on the high-seas, Edmonton Opera presents the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, Pirates of Penzance, February 6, 9 and 11, 2010 at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium. All performances begin at 7:30pm. Tickets, ranging from $32 to $165, are on sale now at Ticketmaster, call 780-451-8000 or visit www.ticketmaster.ca.
This show makes fun of absolutely everything, says Edmonton Opera Artistic Director Brian Deedrick.  And who better to bring the hilarity and exuberance of Gilbert and Sullivan back to Edmonton Operas stage than the director/conductor team, Rob Herriot and Peter Dala, who brought us the Sterling Award-winning H.M.S. PINAFORE and Daughter of the Regiment!
Also known as The Slave of Duty, Pirates of Penzance follows young Frederic as he celebrates the end of his 21-year apprenticeship with a band of merry pirates. When he leaves the ship and reaches civilization, he meets Mabel, (modern) Major General Stanleys daughter, and the young couple falls in love instantly. Plot twists abound before Frederic discovers his apprenticeship contract is to end on his 21st birthday. Technically, having been born February 29, only five of Frederics leap-year birthdays have passed, and he owes the pirates another 64 years of apprenticeship. Mabel and Frederic agree to remain faithful to each other until they are reunited upon his release, whereupon the plot thickens once more.
Comedy super-duo Director Robert Herriot and Conductor Peter Dala team up once more, with Curt Olds as Major General Stanley, Aaron St. Clair Nicholson as the Pirate King and Lawrence Wiliford as Frederic. The powerhouse cast includes Edmontons own Andrew MacDonald-Smith at the Police Sergeant, Sonia Gosse as Ruth, Nikki Einfeld as Mabel, Kendra OConnor in her Edmonton Opera dbut as Edith, and Edmonton-favourite Rene Brad as Kate. The production also features live accompaniment by Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Edmonton Opera Chorus. Pirates of Penzance is sung in English, with English surtitles projected above the stage.
Watch Brian Deedrick and the Edmonton Operateers Pirates of Penzance synopsis here.



For more information about Edmonton Operas season, signature events and education programs, visit www.edmontonopera.com.

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Shaw Festival Box Office Now Open for 2010 Season

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Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, January 11, 2010 . . . The Shaw Festival Box Office is accepting online, mail and fax orders from the general public for the 2010 season starting today.  Commencing January 16, the Box Office will be open for phone and in-person orders. 

The Shaw Festivals 2010 season resonates with the wit, social commentary and relevance for which Bernard Shaw himself was well known and features two plays by the Festivals namesake: The Doctors Dilemma, Shaws relevantly comedic exploration of the medical establishment, directed by Morris Panych; and John Bulls Other Island, Shaws exploration of the culture of misunderstandings and misconceptions, directed by Artistic Director Emeritus Christopher Newton.  

Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell directs An Ideal Husband, Shaws favourite Oscar Wilde work, featuring Shaw Festival favourites Patrick Galligan and Steven Sutcliffe.  Mr. Galligan will also be performing in The Doctors Dilemma, while Mr. Sutcliffe will also be featured in Eda Holmess production of Caryl Churchills Serious Money.  Ms. Maxwell will also direct Linda Griffiths Age of Arousal.

Deborah Hay, who garnered rave reviews as Billie Dawn in the 2009 runaway hit Born Yesterday, returns as Sylvia Fowler in Alisa Palmers production of Clare Boothe Luces The Women and as the whip smart Molly Grant in the S.J. Perelman, Ogden Nash and Kurt Weill musical One Touch of Venus, directed by Eda Holmes

Shaw Festival notables Benedict Campbell, Jim Mezon and Corrine Koslo will be featured in John Bulls Other Island.  Mr. Mezon and Mr. Campbell will also be performing in Tom Murphys adaptation of Anton Chekhovs The Cherry Orchard, directed by Jason Byrne; while Ms. Koslo will take on the role as society-conscious Veta Simmons in the Joseph Ziegler production of Mary Chases Harvey.

The Shaw welcomes back Norman Browning, Diana Donnelly, Kelli Fox, Jonathan Gould, Catherine McGregor, Moya OConnell, Jennifer Phipps and Severn Thompson to its stages this season. 

The Shaw Festival also offers a reading series of contemporary Shavian writers and a variety of enrichment activities that include workshops and seminars.  Affordable overnight and day packages are also available making a trip to The Shaw an enjoyable and hassle-free experience.

Ticket information and brochures can be obtained through the Shaw Festival Box Office:
       Toll free in North America: 1-800-511-7429
       Local: (905) 468-2172
       Fax: (905) 468-3804
       Internet: www.shawfest.com
       Mail: Shaw Festival, Box 774, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON  L0S 1J0

The Festival Theatre Box Office and Bernards, the Shaw Festival Shop, are located at 10 Queens Parade in Niagara-on-the-Lake.  To best serve our patrons, the Box Office will be open Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from January 11 to January 24. Beginning January 25, Box Office hours will be Monday to Friday 9 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday 9 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The Shaws 2010 season begins April 1 and features An Ideal Husband, The Women, The Doctors Dilemma, The Cherry Orchard, John Bulls Other Island, Age of Arousal, Harvey, One Touch of Venus, Half An Hour and Serious Money.

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Canadian Debuts Highlight of First February Events at the Royal Conservatory




The Royal Conservatory is offering a wide-ranging roster of enriching experiences in the first half of February, with performances from top international artists, and our stellar faculty and gifted students.  

Grammy Award-winning violinist and composer, Mark OConnor, comes to Koerner Hall on February 13 for the Canadian premiere of his genre-crossing String Quartet No. 2 (Blue-Grass) & No. 3 (Old-Time), issued on his 2009 album for OMAC Records. Joining him are Ida Kavafian (violin), Paul Neubauer (viola), and Matt Haimovitz (cello), in the quartets Canadian debut. Like all of OConnors works, these string quartets are inspired by, and evocative of, American musical traditions.  He is perhaps best known for his work with Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer on the Appalachia Waltz and Appalachian Journey discs.  Former U.S. President Bill Clinton described his music as uniting the strains of classical music with American hill country music.  OConnors musical vision also extends pedagogically; in November 2009, he issued the latest edition of his two-volume OConnor Violin Method, whereby students learn violin technique through a wide range of pieces, including traditional American songs.  As he puts it, students do not want to be left out of the great sounds and energy of fiddling and jazz because they wish to become fine classical players.  OConnor will demonstrate his passion for education during a free public master class on February 12.

The Royal Conservatory Orchestra (RCO) returns to Koerner Hall on February 12.  For this concert, the orchestra will be under the baton of Canadian Opera Company Music Director, Johannes Debus.  Recently described as a master conductor by the Toronto Star, Debus is making his debut with the RCO.  Joining them will be award-winning mezzo-soprano and Conservatory alumnus, Wallis Giunta, and pianists Nicholas King and Lucas Porter, both of whom are current students of The Glenn Gould School at The Royal Conservatory.  Debus will be leading the orchestra in a passionate program including Prokofievs Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 Classique, Poulencs Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D Minor, Ravels Shhrazade, and Stravinskys Firebird Suite (1945).

The internationally renowned double bassist Jeffrey Beecher is performing a wide-ranging recital on February 7 in Mazzoleni Hall.  The program includes the Canadian premieres of Deyishme, a composition for tabla, bass, and string quartet by Azerbaijani composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, and the Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by American composer David Anderson.  Also on the program is Bachs Suite for Unaccompanied Cello No. 2 in D Minor, and John Harbisons Concerto for Bass Viol and Piano.  This accomplished faculty member of The Royal Conservatorys Glenn Gould School has toured extensively as a member of Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Ensemble and is currently the Principal Bass with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Fellow faculty member David Louie will charm the audience of Mazzoleni Hall on February 14 with a harpsichord recital.  Described as a pianistic sensation (Rhein-Zeitung, Germany), this award-winning instrumentalist has appeared with orchestras across North America and Europe.  He will perform a special all Bach program that will include the Goldberg Variations, the Ricercar A 3 in C Minor, and Mr. Louie's own transcription of the Partita No. 2 for solo violin. 

Legendary pianist and pedagogue Leon Fleisher makes a welcome return to The Royal Conservatory from February 10-12, to continue his long-running series of master classes.  Held in Mazzoleni Hall, they provide a unique opportunity to gain knowledge and wisdom from the legendary pianist and pedagogue as he listens to students of The Glenn Gould School and provides insights into issues of technique, interpretation, and style. 

Founded in 1886, The Royal Conservatory is the largest and oldest independent arts educator in Canada.  It is an internationally renowned centre for performance and learning, providing opportunities for personal development through music and arts education in over 300 communities across Canada and a dozen countries around the world. Each year, more than 500,000 Canadians take part in RCM programs, exams, and public school initiatives. 

The Royal Conservatory acknowledges all of its donors and recognizes the remarkable generosity of:  

TELUS Official season sponsor of the 2009-10 Koerner Hall Concert Season
The Globe and Mail Season Media Partner
RBC Royal Conservatory Orchestra Guest Conductor Program Sponsor
MasterCard Royal Conservatory Orchestra Performance Sponsor
Classical 96.3 Media Sponsor (Mark OConnor)
The family of Lily Kertes Rolin Performance supporter (Johannes Debus Conducts the Royal Conservatory Orchestra)

CONCERTS AND EVENTS AT THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY FEBRUARY 1-14, 2010
KH Koerner Hall; MH Mazzoleni Hall; CT Conservatory Theatre

Jeffrey Beecher: Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 2pm; $20-$30 (MH)
Leon Fleisher Master Classes: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 10am & 2pm;
Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 10am & 2pm; Friday, February 12, 2010 at 10am & 2pm; $10 (MH)
Mark OConnor Master Class: Friday, February 12, 2010 at 5pm; FREE (CT)
Johannes Debus Conducts the Royal Conservatory Orchestra: Friday, February 12, 2010 at 8pm; $10-$20 (KH)
Mark OConnor: Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 8pm; $20-$50 (KH)
David Louie: Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 2pm; $20-$30 (MH)

Tickets are available online at www.rcmusic.ca, by calling 416.408.0208,
or in person at the Weston Family Box Office, 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto

More information about upcoming concerts and events is available The Royal Conservatory website at www.rcmusic.ca.

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Pentadre presente Visages d'Amrique

Diffrentes visions musicales de lAmrique


Mardi 2 fvrier 2010, 20 h

Salle Tanna Schulich
555, rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Mtro McGill

25 $ rgulier 15 $ tudiants / ans
Billets : 514-398-4547
www.pentaedre.com


Montral, 11 janvier 2010 - L'Amrique, avec ses nombreux visages, a depuis longtemps inspir les crateurs d'ici et d'ailleurs. Cest un voyage travers le temps et les poques auquel vous invite Pentadre le mardi 2 fvrier, 20 h, la salle Tanna Schulich.

Pentadre propose un programme centr autour de la cration amricaine des cent dernires annes dans lequel l'audace de John Cage, l'extrme virtuosit du fabuleux quintette de John Harbison, le romantisme du fameux quatuor "amricain" de Dvorak dans une transcription pour quintette, ainsi qu'une cration du montralais Blair Thompson composeront une courtepointe sonore riche et colore. De courts extraits de clbres discours amricains viendront s'insrer diffrents moments du concert, transformant de faon ludique ce portrait musical amricain en une exploration caractre historique.

Comme l'a dit Franklin Delano Roosevelt en 1933, la seule chose que nous ayons craindre, cest la crainte elle-mme . Alors, nhsitez pas venir nous rejoindreĶ.

Au programme :
Antonin Dvorak   Quintette no 12 op. 16 (transcription de David Walter)
John Cage   Living Room Music
Blair Thompson    Empathie (cration)
John Harbison   Quintette

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Mixed Company Theatre: Bouncing Back from Homelessness

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Toronto, January 11, 2010 Every year Mixed Company Theatres initiatives include a homelessness project. Betty Joe Morris, a 2009 project participant described her experience as: It kept me clean and off the streets of the drug life.
This year, our artists collaborate with youth who are at-risk or have experienced homelessness to develop an original, interactive, and issue-based play in the Bouncing Back Project, funded by the City of Torontos Drug Prevention Community Investment Program. This production will tour shelters, community centers, and schools across Toronto to raise awareness surrounding the issues of homelessness and substance abuse.
The first step of this 4-week project is auditions for young people ages 15 25. On Wednesday, January 27, Mixed Company Theatre encourages those who have experienced homelessness and have a passion for performing to attend an open call for performers.
Garnering intense media interest over the years, Mixed Company Theatres homelessness projects result in astonishing experiences that transform the lives of participants, company members and audiences alike. 
AUDITIONS
WHERE: Mixed Company Theatre, 157 Carlton Street (at Sherbourne), Toronto ON
WHEN: Wednesday, January 27 2010
ADDITIONAL DETAILS: Interested youth are encouraged to book an audition appointment. Please contact 416 515 8080 or Duncan@mixedcompanytheatre.com for more information.

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A Total of 14 Spectacular Harbourfront Centre March Break Camps for Ages Three to 17 Including Circus, Fashion Design, Pop Star, TheatreKids, Senior Fine Arts, Junior Architects and more

TORONTO, ON (Jan. 11, 2009) Keeping the tradition of providing Toronto parents and children with the most diverse selection of day camps, Harbourfront Centre announces its one-of-a-kind March Break Camps 2010 session. At Harbourfront Centres beautiful 10-acre waterfront site, campers aged three through 17 can engage in a fully enriched environment with exceptional facilities and the citys best counsellors.

Harbourfront Centre is expanding on its reputation of providing fun opportunities for skill development and personal growth by offering 14 arts-based programmes. Whether a child is keenly interested in problem-solving and design or craves the spotlight to showcase singing and dancing talents, diverse programmes maximize learning and fun. A complete description of camps and fees is included at the bottom of this release.

Harbourfront Centre March Break Camps take place from Monday, March 15 to Friday, March 19, 2010, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. A supervised extended hours programme, perfect for working parents, is available from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., at an additional cost of $65. Registration is now underway. To register or for more information, the public can call the Camps office, 416-973-4093 or visit harbourfrontcentre.com/camps. Early registration is advised as camps fill up quickly.

MARCH BREAK CAMPS, MARCH 1519, 2010

Camp by the Water
Ages 35, $222

Our highly qualified staff foster a safe and nurturing environment for first-time campers, encouraging new friendships, camper enrichment, creativity and self-expression. Small groups offer a 6:1 camper-to-counsellor ratio, ensuring safe supervision and individual attention while facilitating camper learning and development. Our exemplary staff are selected based on enthusiasm, prior experience and capacity to supervise our youngest campers.

Discovery Day Camp
Ages 68, $222

Campers participate in arts and craft projects, drama and active games, science activities, and cooperative programming. Working with skilled staff and specialists, campers explore a world of imagination, creativity and culture.

Circus
Ages 713, $263

Circus camp includes juggling, stilt walking, acrobatics and clowning. Equipment is specially designed with youth and safety in mind. Circus professionals work with camp counsellors to maximize safety and allow groups and individuals to move at their own pace in accordance with age and ability. This camp is coordinated by Marsha Kennington, an instructor/trainer with Cirque du Monde the Social/Action division of Cirque du Soleil. *Please note: due to the cold winter weather this camp will be held in the Brigantine Room and not in a circus tent.

Junior Creative Arts
Ages 68, $232

Campers are encouraged to follow their creative instincts and let the imagination reign. Diverse cultural and artistic perspectives are explored through a variety of hands-on activities. Campers learn to appreciate art through lively workshop sessions, with emphasis on personal creativity and technique. Our skilled artist-instructors encourage campers to draw on imagination, creativity and artistic vision.

Intermediate Creative Arts
Ages 911, $232

Campers discover art, culture and creativity in this art camp for older campers. Diverse cultural and artistic perspectives are explored through drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking! Guest artists blend traditional and contemporary art forms, while guiding campers through our galleries and craft studios for context and inspiration.

Fashion Design Camp
Ages 812, $232

Under the guidance of our experienced staff, campers learn about the world of fashion. Fundamentals of design provide the basis for campers to create sketches, illustrate, design and execute projects from start to finish. Campers work with raw fabrics, old jeans and shirts to craft their final masterpiece, concluding with a runway show.

Digital Photo Camp
Ages 812, $232

Our innovative, hands-on introduction to the creation of images using our new media lab will give campers the opportunity to experiment with contemporary digital photography. Campers learn creative vision and composition and shooting technique through the lens of our Digital Cameras (provided). Campers will have the opportunity to create and edit digital photographs by working on such projects as spoof advertising campaigns, digital photo collages, and self portrait photo projects.

Chess Challenge
Ages 812, $222

Chess enthusiasts, from beginner to advanced, enjoy unparalleled instruction in chess strategy. Our skilled instructors will teach campers to "see" the chessboard as tournament professionals do. Campers will be taught elementary techniques such as: how to open a game, defend a piece, mate, avoid stalemate and more.

Junior Authors
Ages 812, $227

For aspiring writers, junior authors and avid readers, these campers explore the wonderful world of literature with experienced camp staff and special guest authors. Campers read and discuss the material then participate in creative writing workshops. This camp stimulates creativity and the imaginative spirit of budding young readers and writers, exploring what lies below the surface of children's literature.

TheatreKids
Ages 812, $232

For the budding actor, this camp is created for campers who love being in the spotlight. TheatreKids explores the world of theatre in a relaxed, supportive, hands-on environment. Working together with the director, campers learn aspects of performance and theatre production while rehearsing and preparing for their own show, to be presented to family members and friends at the end of the session. Special guests are brought in when available to showcase aspects of drama or stage production.

NEW! Senior Fine Arts
Ages 1216, $237

This camp is for the young artist planning to take his/her artistic endeavours to the next level. Campers learn skills of art appreciation and critiquing through engaging workshop sessions, while emphasis is placed on both personal creativity and fine art technique. With the assistance of our qualified instructors and guest artists the campers will continue refining their artistic abilities as they prepare original artwork using artist quality materials.

Dungeons & Dragons
Ages 1015, $212

In this medieval role-playing game, campers harness their imagination through assumed characters; overcoming obstacles and outwitting opponents. Campers learn cooperation, independence and problem-solving skills while interacting with peers in this well-supervised programme. Suitable for first-time or experienced D&D-ers.

Junior Architects
Ages 812, $232

This groundbreaking camp allows campers to explore the world of architecture through design, engineering, and hands-on building and model-making activities. Projects are designed to develop decision making and problem solving skills, while emphasizing cooperation with peers. Workshops led by our skilled staff will provide real-life context to camp components.

Pop Star
Ages 812, $232

Campers explore different genres of music and learn to write their own songs as they work on their vocals and choreography with qualified instructors and guest musicians. Campers will then showcase their new learned skills on stage in a concert for their screaming fans!

For more information about registration, fees, policies and financial assistance, the public can call the Harbourfront Centre Camps Office at 416-973-4093 or visit www.harbourfrontcentre.com/camps for further details.

Harbourfront Centre is a proud member of the Ontario Camps Association.

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Free View Points forum series returns to Harbourfront Centre Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 with Inside the Musicians Studio

Featuring Charles Spearins The Happiness Project


TORONTO, ON (Monday, Jan. 11, 2010) Harbourfront Centres View Points is a forum series that explores issues in contemporary culture and showcases current culture-makers. The series examines contexts that influence contemporary artists and communities, contexts that shape the ways in which culture is produced, viewed, consumed and discussed. It is timely, responsive and designed to stretch the definition of culture.

2010s four-part View Points series kicks off Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 at 8 p.m. with Inside the Musicians Studio featuring Charles Spearins The Happiness Project, hosted by Stuart Berman. Admission is FREE.

Inside the Musicians Studio is a unique opportunity for audience members to experience what motivates a body of creative musical work, from inspiration to collaboration and production. It is also a chance to discover new perspectives, whether audience members are established musicians, aspiring artists or just curious observers. It is a tte--tte between the audience and the artists. Previous artists have included Final Fantasy and Emily Haines.

Charles Spearin is a multi-instrumentalist who has been an active and influential member of Canadas indie music community since the mid-90s. He is best known as a founding member of the instrumental post-rock ensemble Do Make Say Think and an original member of the indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene. Spearins most recent work, his first solo album entitled The Happiness Project, is focused on the natural, unselfconscious music of speech. The album is based on recorded conversations with his downtown neighbours about the concept of happiness; he plays with the cadence and melody of the speaking voices as though they were songs. His inspiration was drawn from his great love of music, a fascination with sound, and lifelong studies in Buddhism. By replicating the rise and fall of the recorded voices on different instruments, he succeeds in illuminating some of the hidden beauty of ordinary life. As Spearin says, "All of the melodies on this album are the melodies of every day life."


With The Happiness Project, Spearin blurs the line between speaking and singing - life and art - and writes music based on these accidental melodies. With the help of some musical friends, Spearin plays the instruments to match these natural neighbourhood melodies inspired by thoughts of happiness. The end result is a unique and inspiring musical work that speaks to hidden beauty all around us.

For more information about Charles Spearin and The Happiness Project, visit happiness-project.ca or myspace.com/charlesspearin.



ABOUT HOST STUART BERMAN
Stuart Berman is Online Editor at Eye Weekly and has been writing about the Toronto music scene for over 10 years. His writing on music and pop culture has appeared in the Toronto Star, National Post, PitchforkMedia.com, Magnet, The Village Voice, Toro and Azure. He is the author of 2009s This Book Is Broken: A Broken Social Scene Story and lives in Toronto.

OTHER UPCOMING FREE VIEW POINTS EVENTS:

Inside the City
Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, 7-9 p.m.
This forum event will explore the inner workings of a city, looking to provide audiences with new insights about the urban by tackling issues such as architecture, city life and politics.

Behind the Lens
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7-9 p.m.
Explore the ever-changing trends in film and culture with this interactive screening and forum event. A current film will be presented followed by a discussion with directors and other insiders.

Inside the Musicians Studio
Thursday, April 29, 2010, 7-9 p.m.
The 2010 View Points series comes to a close with a second music-based tte--tte. Featured artist and host TBA.

All View Points events take place at Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. For additional information and complete event listings, the public may visit harbourfrontcentre.com or call the Information Hotline at 416-973-4000.


ABOUT HARBOURFRONT CENTRE
Harbourfront Centre is an innovative, non-profit cultural organization which provides internationally renowned programming in the arts, culture, education and recreation, all within a collection of distinctive venues on a 10-acre site in the heart of Toronto's downtown waterfront.

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Rebecca Makonnen, Porte-Parole de Racines

LE CONCOURS NATIONAL DE CRATION MDIA

DE RADIO CANADA INTERNATIONAL

 
 
Montral, 11 janvier 2010  Lanimatrice Rebecca Makonnen vient dtre nomme porte-parole de RACINES, le nouveau concours national de cration mdia de Radio Canada International. ce titre, elle encourage chaleureusement les Canadiens et rsidents canadiens participer cette activit qui leur permet de sexprimer en sons et en images sur leur histoire et leurs origines, en mettant en relief leur contribution la grande mosaque canadienne.

Ne dun pre thiopien et dune mre qubcoise, Rebecca Makonnen anime Studio 12 sur Espace musique, la radio musicale de Radio-Canada. Bien connue des mdias (Musique Plus, TQS, Radio-nergie), elle a galement t chroniqueuse culturelle On fait tous du show business et Cest bien meilleur le matin avec Ren Homier-Roy, respectivement la tl et la radio de Radio-Canada.  Je suis trs heureuse que lon mait choisie pour parler du concours Racines, une initiative de RCI qui me touche beaucoup. Jespre que je saurai convaincre un grand nombre de personnes sinscrire et faire valoir leur origine et leur culture avec fiert! , dclare-t-elle.

La date limite pour soumettre une oeuvre est le 7 mars 2010. Ce concours est ouvert tant aux amateurs quaux professionnels.

Pour participer, les intresss doivent soumettre une uvre de 3 8 minutes  court mtrage ou document multimdia  qui nous parle de leurs racines et nous raconte une partie de leur histoire, un aspect de leur culture. Toutes les formes sont permises et dans tous les styles : fiction, reportage, documentaire, animationĶ Au printemps 2010, les jurs choisis par Radio Canada International slectionneront les uvres qui rpondront le mieux aux critres. Les internautes pourront galement voter en ligne pour leurs uvres prfres. Au total huit laurats (quatre dans chaque langue) se partageront en prix des appareils de haute technologie, tels camscopes, ordinateurs, iPod Touch et iPhone.

Information, inscription et rglements :
RCInet.ca/racines

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Sudbury pianist Yoko Hirota will perform selections from her new CD, Small is Beautiful: Miniature Piano Pieces, in the next concert of the 5-Penny New Music Concerts series

5-Penny Web Site: www.5pennynewmusic.ca
           
Sudbury pianist Yoko Hirota will perform selections from her new CD, Small is Beautiful: Miniature Piano Pieces, in the next concert of the 5-Penny New Music Concerts series. The concert is on Friday, January 22, at 8 p.m. at St. Peters United Church in Sudbury. Special tickets, which include a complimentary copy of the CD, are $25 and $20 for students.  General admission (without the CD) is $15 and $10 for students.  Both tickets are available at Black Cat, Laurentian University Bookstore, Laurentian Music Department and at the door. CDs may also be purchased at the concert at a cost of $15.

A celebration of the miniature in music, Hirotas program takes the listener on a musical journey from early twentieth-century Vienna to twenty-first century Northern Ontario. The opening set, entitled Six Little Piano Pieces, opus 19, was composed by Arnold Schoenberg in Vienna in 1911. One of the most admired compositions of its kind, the set presents in snapshot style a series of mood pictures ranging from playful to meditative. The moving sixth piece is said to be a tribute to Schoenbergs friend and mentor, Gustav Mahler, who died a short time before. Composers from Germany, Hungary, Italy, and the United States are also represented on the program.

Hirota pays particular attention to Canadian composers, including Brian Cherney (Elegy for a Misty Afternoon), Aris Carastathis (Traces) and Robert Lemay (Tanze vor AngstĶHommage Paul Klee). It is striking how the genre allows each of these composers to capture the essence of the moment while imaginatively exploring the technical and expressive possibilities of the piano.

 Small is Beautiful is earning favorable reviews. Writing in the Toronto classical music magazine, The Wholenote, John S. Gray praised Hirotas performance, noting that the album adds to her already impressive set of laurels. But it is the works from her adoptive land, Northern Ontario, which make the disc unique, wrote Gray. Aris Carastathis Traces and two recent works by Robert Lemay are remarkable. Carastathis is a music professor at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, while Lemay is an international prize-winning composer who teaches at Laurentian.

Prior to Hirotas performance, Lucien Pelletier, a philosophy professor at the University of Sudbury, will discuss the significance of the miniature in art.  Pelletiers presentation begins at 7 p.m.

The event is presented in cooperation with Laurentian University, Cambrian College and  Interdisciplinary M.A. Program in the Humanities of Laurentian University. It is also made possible with the financial support of the SOCAN Foundation, Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Greater Sudbury.


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Thursday, January 14, 2010

David Shermans The Daily Miracle is a bittersweet ode to a rapidly fading industry

MONTREAL, January 2010 - Ever wonder what its like to work for a major daily newspaper?  Former Gazette copy editor, David Sherman, offers a keyhole view of the newspaper industry with his play The Daily Miracle, directed by Guy Sprung and playing at the Bain St-Michel from January 26 to February 14, 2010.  

What has more dramatic possibilities than a room full of people under constant stress? asks Sherman and the elements he combines in his petri dish create a virtual powder keg.  While a winter storm threatens to shut down the city and the corporate big wigs meet behind closed doors across the hall to decide the fate of the newspaper, four copy editors hammer out tomorrows edition.  It's just another night on the news desk, where the battle-scarred and overworked wrestle with fractured syntax and crushed ideals to get the next edition out.  Tempers frayed from layoffs, cutbacks and corroded ambitions; it's a miracle they can get the paper out at all Ķ a miracle that happens every day.
The genesis of The Daily Miracle was in 2004 while Sherman was still copy editor at the Gazette as well as playwright-in-residence at Centaur Theatre.  The play sat on a shelf until one day when Sherman was screening films for the Gemini awards and met fellow juror, Guy Sprung.  When Infinithtre initiated the Write-On-Q playwrighting competition last year, Sherman submitted his play and Infinithtres independent jury chose it as one of the top three.  Its topical resonance was irresistible to Sprung, who couldnt wait to announce its inclusion in the following seasons line-up.
The Daily Miracle is Shermans love song to the newspaper industry.  "The men and women I worked with on the desk at The Gazette were almost all unsung heroes," Sherman says. "They worked their hearts out under what has become impossible conditions for what I believed was a noble cause. Getting the paper out, every night, no matter what. The reporters got the credit. The deskers went bald and crazy."

Shermans fascination with the industry was triggered at the tender age of 6 when his schoolteacher recommended the class read the newspaper to augment their reading skills.  Magically, The Montreal Star arrived at his doorstep every afternoon.  He would dash home from school to be the first to open those ungainly pages in search of new words and mythic tales of greed, corruption, courage and victory.  By the time he was 17 he was a copy boy at that very same paper.  A few years after graduating from Dawson College, Sherman worked at The Star as circulation manager but eventually quit to write freelance for both The Star and The Gazette and then took a job at the Sherbrooke Record.  Over the years Sherman has been a music critic, feature writer, reporter and finally a copy editor working the desk at The Gazette.
As an added bonus for hard-core news junkies, Infinithtre is hosting a special event on Wednesday February 3.  The Bain will open its doors at 6:30 PM for an early showing of The Daily Miracle at 7 PM.  Directly following the performance, there will be a panel discussion with four of Montreals senior journalists: Alan Allnutt, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Gazette; Henry Aubin, author, historian, and columnist at The Gazette; Jose Boileau, editor-in-chief at Le Devoir and Franoise Gunette, free-lance journalist and reporter for Radio-Canada.  Its anticipated that the panel and audience will be working up quite a thirst so cocktails will be served at a post-discussion reception.  To buy a ticket or for more information, call (514) 987 1774 or e-mail development@infinitheatre.com.

Arthur Holden, celebrated Montral actor (most recently seen on History Television in September as General James Wolfe in Galafilms Battlefield Quebec), and writer (his play, Father Land, won the Write-On-Q competition last year and will round up Infinithtres season with a March production) is Marty, newly back on the job after a nervous breakdown and clearly headed down that road again.  Ellen David, well known to Canadian audiences (Mambo Italiano, The Carpenter and In Piazza San Domenico) and who currently stars in the new CBC comedy series 18 to Life, plays Elizabeth, a dedicated professional trying to balance motherhood and an all-consuming career in a predominately male environment.  Howard Rosenstein makes an about-turn from paedophilic clown in Infinithtres Rabbit Rabbit last fall to Benjamin, the womanizing night editor determined to get the paper out with a minimum of histrionics so he can hightail it to the nearest bar to drown his troubles.  New kid on the block with dreams of television news anchor fame is Carrie, played by Sheena Gaz-Deslandes in her theatrical debut and veteran Qubec actor Jean-Guy Bouchard is Roland, resident philosopher and fallen demi-God reduced to janitor.


Hot commodity, James Lavoie, designs the set and costumes and Eric Mongerson returns to Infinite as lighting designer with assistance from Mylne Choquette.  Making his Infinithtre debut as sound designer is Julien St. Pierre and Kathryn Cleveland is two for two this season as stage manager with Michael Panich as her apprentice.


Performance Information

      Dates & Times    Jan. 26 Feb. 14

      Previews     Jan. 26 & 27
      Opening     Jan. 28
      Tues. through Sat.    20:00
      Sunday Matine    14:00
      Monday     DARK

      Tickets

      General Admission         $20
      Seniors & Students    $15
      Groups (6 or more)    $10

      Venue

      Bain St-Michel
      5300, St-Dominique

      Box Office

      (514) 987 1774

      Web Site

www.infinitheatre.com

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Introducing Artistic Director Josh Grossman

Toronto Executive Producer and CEO of Toronto Downtown Jazz (TDJ), Patrick Taylor announces the appointment of Josh Grossman as the organizations new Artistic Director.  At 33, Grossman is a young leading figure in the local jazz scene and is an educator, producer and performer.
 
The appointment begins immediately as TDJ prepares for this summers 24th edition of the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival. The opportunity to have such young talent with an ear to the ground on the local scene will bring a fresh perspective to the Festival, states Taylor. We are excited to move forward with the next generation of jazz impresarios and educators and feel that Joshs artistic vision will carry the Festival to the next decade and beyond.
 
I am excited to be working with TDJ and building on an outstanding 23-year tradition, states Grossman. Some of my favourite musical experiences have been at the Festival and I look forward to creating memorable experiences for the current and next generation of jazz fans. Its an honour to get to work closely with Torontos jazz community and the fantastic talent in this city, this country and on the international stage.
 
Having previously held positions as the Artistic Director of the Markham Jazz Festival, Manager of High Park Choirs of Toronto and Production Manager of The Royal Conservatory of Music, and through his continuing work as Programming Co-Chair for the Jazz Performance and Education Centre, Grossman has been steadily building relationships in the local, national and international jazz, classical and world music communities. In addition to the organizational and production aspects, Grossman is a musician and Founder of the Toronto Jazz Orchestra which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary as a big band for young, local emerging talent.
 
As Artistic Director, he will also be instrumental in further developing the educational components of TDJ during the off-season with community partner, Regent Park School of Music. Through master classes and other educational opportunities, TDJ will be exposing a new generation of students to jazz. Grossmans experience with The Glenn Gould School, and the Jazz Performance and Education Centre will help build a solid foundation of the Festival and jazz community at the grassroots level. 
 
Josh Grossmans appointment as Artistic Director follows the retirement of Founding Artistic Director Jim Galloway last year.
 
For more information please visit www.torontojazz.com

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Peggy Baker Dance Projects presents confluence, a fascinating collision of science and art


Toronto, December 16, 2009 - Peggy Baker is one of Canada's most outstanding, influential and celebrated dance artists. For her company's first-ever season at Harbourfront Centre's Enwave Theatre, she unveils a fascinating collision of science and art in confluence, February 24-28, 2010.

A triptych of richly detailed contemporary dance works inspired by the subtle movement and communication patterns of insects, confluence is a bracingly original evening of dance that features two choreographies from Peggy Baker (a world premiere trio and Toronto premiere of a new solo) and the Canadian premiere of an intimate new duet by the masterful New York choreographer Doug Varone.

The centrepiece of the evening is the world premiere of coalesce, a trio by Baker created for superb dancers Kate Holden, Sean Ling and Sahara Morimoto. This complex and unpredictable piece inquires into the nature of communication received through vibration, heat, light, scent, and touch, musing on alternate sensory and movement pathways for eliciting interconnected action.

Baker's new solo earthling, first on the program, receives its Toronto premiere (it premiered at Vancouver's Dances for a Small Stage in January of 2009). The dancer is confined to a small tipped and tilted platform that provides the audience with a skewed, almost overhead view of her movements as she rocks and reaches, like a beetle caught on its back. The richly painted platform appears to repel or absorb her, creating images of stark contrast and muted harmony. earthling reflects on the irony of how solitary one can feel despite the utter impossibly of not being a part of something larger.

Both coalesce and earthling were inspired by the work of Montreal visual artist Sylvia Safdie and the scientific essays of Lewis Thomas in his 1974 classic Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher.

The latter also inspired Doug Varone's duet armour that is danced by Baker with Varone company veteran Larry Hahn. It is a direct choreographic response to a Thomas essay concerning the communicative necessity among social insects regarding being touched: "It is the being touched that counts, rather than the act of touching." Originally created as part of the full evening work Dense Terrain, Varone suggested it to Baker for her own repertoire.


The evening is illuminated by Montreal lighting wizard Marc Parent, and is performed to an evocative and other-worldly electro-acoustic score, commissioned from composer Debashis Sinha.

A founding member of Dancemakers (Toronto/1974), Peggy Baker toured internationally with Lar Lubovitch's New York company throughout the 1980s and joined Mikhail Baryshnikov and Mark Morris for the inuagural season of their White Oak Dance Project, subsequently forging important creative relationships with choreographers Paul-Andr Fortier (Montreal), and Doug Varone (New York City). Since 1990 she has created and commissioned dances through her Toronto-based Peggy Baker Dance Projects. Appointed Artist-in-Residence at Canada's National Ballet School in 1992, Baker is the recipient of the 2006 Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts, an honorary doctorate from the University of Calgary, three Dora Mavor Moore Awards for outstanding performance and two for outstanding choreography. She has been inducted into both the Order of Ontario and the Order of Canada, and is the recipient of the 2009 Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts.



Peggy Baker Dance Projects presents confluence
Wednesday February 24 - Sunday February 28, 2010
Wednesday-Saturday at 8pm: $25 & $30 (Discounts for students, seniors, CADA, groups);
Sunday matinee at 4pm: PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN 
Harbourfront Centre's Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West
Box Office: 416-973-4000  and ONLINE at www.peggybakerdance.com

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Gotham Chamber Opera's Il Mondo Della Luna

GOTHAM CHAMBER OPERA
in partnership with the American Museum of Natural History
and in association with American Repertory Theater
presents

IL MONDO DELLA LUNA
(The World on the Moon)
An opera by Joseph Haydn
at the Hayden Planetarium, Rose Center for Earth and Space,
American Museum of Natural History

Directed by Diane Paulus
January 19 - 28, 2010
PERFORMANCE ADDED
DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND:
Wednesday, January 27 at 8pm


Gotham Chamber Opera, in partnership with the American Museum of Natural History and in association with American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), presents Il mondo della luna (The World on the Moon) by Joseph Haydn, in a new production staged by Diane Paulus, director of Hair, which received the 2009 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. Il mondo della luna will run from January 19 - 28, 2010 at the Hayden Planetarium in the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History. Tickets are $30-$125 and are available at www.ticketcentral.com or by phone at 212-279-4200.

For the first time ever, the Hayden Planetarium will be transformed into an intimate opera house using a 180-degree dome and projections courtesy of NASA. Taking advantage of breakthroughs in laser and light technology, Il mondo della luna will fuse live opera and stargazing, immersing the audience in a completely new kind of theatrical event - an out-of-this-world experience for opera lovers, science buffs, and theatergoers alike.

"This is Gotham's grandest and most audacious production in our eight-year history. The combination of Haydn, the Hayden, Diane Paulus, and our incomparable lineup of singers and designers adds up to a once-in-a-lifetime experience," said Neal Goren, Artistic Director and founder of Gotham Chamber Opera.

The production will be directed by Diane Paulus, whom Opera News calls one of the top 25 names in U.S. opera. Leading the 27-piece orchestra is conductor Neal Goren. Video and production design is by Philip Bussmann, costume design is by Anka Lupes, with Andrew Eggert as associate director. Il mondo della luna features Hanan Alattar, Albina Shagimuratova, Rachel Calloway, Nicholas Coppolo, Matthew Tuell, Timothy Kuhn, and Marco Nistic.
Gotham Chamber Opera will literally take audiences to the moon in this production, Haydn's personal favorite of all his operas. Written in 1777, it's the story of a nobleman who refuses to let his daughters marry their true loves. With the help of a fake astronomer and a sleeping potion, the daughters trick their father into believing he's been sent to the moon, where he discovers they do things differently, especially when it comes to courtship. On the moon, women are allowed to choose their own husbands.

Gotham Chamber Opera is the nation's foremost opera company dedicated to producing rarely-performed chamber operas from the Baroque era to the present. The company's mission is to present innovative, fully-staged productions of the highest quality in intimate venues.
Founded by conductor and Artistic Director Neal Goren in 2000, in its short history, Gotham Chamber Opera has presented seven U.S. premieres of 18th- and 20th-century operas, including such masterpieces as Mozart's Il Sogno di Scipione; Darius Milhaud's Les Malheurs d'Orphe; Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu's Dada opera, Les Larmes du Couteau; and Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister's Die schwarze Spinne. In February 2005, Gotham presented the U.S. stage premiere of Handel's Arianna in Creta. Also in 2005, Lincoln Center Festival and Spoleto Festival USA presented Gotham Chamber Opera's U.S. premiere of Ottorino Respighi's fantastical puppet opera, La bella dormente nel bosco featuring the puppetry of Basil Twist. In the spring of 2006, Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring received its first professional staging in New York in more than 30 years, and in winter 2007, Rossini's Il signor Bruschino received its first major professional New York staging in over a half century. In the 2007/2008 season, Gotham Chamber Opera celebrated dance with productions of Astor Piazzolla's tango opera Mara de Buenos Aires, directed by David Parsons and featuring Parsons Dance, and with a new work entitled Ariadne Unhinged, directed by Karole Armitage and featuring members of Armitage Gone! Dance. And in 2009, Mark Morris directed the U.S. stage premiere of Haydn's L'isola disabitata. In the future, Gotham Chamber Opera will present Montsalvatge's El gato con botas (Puss in Boots), staged by Tony Award-nominated director Moiss Kaufman.
A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus is a director of opera and theater. Her recent theater work includes The Public Theater's revival of Hair at the Delacorte in Central Park, now transferred to Broadway (2009 Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Musical, nominated for 8 Tony Awards including Best Director, as well as winner of a Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama League Award for Best Revival of a Musical). She is the creator and director of The Donkey Show, a disco adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which ran for six years Off-Broadway, and toured internationally to London, Edinburgh, Madrid, and Evian, France, currently being revived at the A.R.T. Other recent work includes Kiss Me Kate at Glimmerglass Opera; Lost Highway, based on the David Lynch film, an ENO co-production with the Young Vic in London, which received The South Bank Show Award for outstanding achievement during 2008; Another Country by James Baldwin at Riverside Church; Turandot: Rumble for the Ring at the Bay Street Theatre; The Golden Mickeys for Disney Creative Entertainment; Best of Both Worlds, a gospel/R&B adaptation of A Winter's Tale produced by Music-Theatre Group and The Women's Project; and The Karaoke Show, an adaptation of Comedy of Errors set in a karaoke bar. She directed the Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist Running Man by jazz composer Diedre Murray and poet Cornelius Eady for Music-Theatre Group, and Swimming with Watermelons, created in association with Project 400, the theater company she co-founded with her husband Randy Weiner. Other work Off-Broadway: Brutal Imagination, and the Obie Award-winning Eli's Comin, featuring the music and lyrics of Laura Nyro. As an opera director, her productions include Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Turn of the Screw, Cosi fan tutte, and all three Monteverdi operas, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, L'incoronazione di Poppea, and Orfeo at Chicago Opera Theater. She is a frequent collaborator with British conductor Jane Glover. In 2002, their critically acclaimed production of Orfeo was presented as part of The Monteverdi Cycle at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. Ms. Paulus has taught at Barnard College/Columbia University, and the Yale School of Drama, and was recently appointed Professor of the Practice in Harvard University's English Department. She is a 2009 recipient of the Harvard College Women's Professional Achievement Award and Columbia University's I.A.L Diamond Award, presented each year to a Columbia University alumnus/a who has demonstrated continued commitment to and has found success in the arts. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with a B.A. in Social Studies, and has a M.F.A. in Directing from Columbia University's School of the Arts.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is one of the country's most celebrated resident theaters and the wnnner of numerous awards -- including the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize; it was recently named one of the top three theaters in the country by Time magazine. Over its twenty-nine-year history the A.R.T. has welcomed major American and international theater artists whose singular visions generate and define the theater's work, presenting a varied repertoire that includes new plays, progressive productions of classical texts, and collaborations between artists from many disciplines. The Company has performed throughout the country, and worldwide in twenty-one cities in sixteen countries on four continents.

The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent scientific, educational, and cultural institutions. Since its founding in 1869, the Museum has advanced its global mission to explore and interpret human cultures and the natural world through a wide-reaching program of scientific research, education, and exhibitions. The Museum accomplishes this ambitious goal through its extensive facilities and resources. The institution houses 45 permanent exhibition halls, state-of-the-art research laboratories, one of the largest natural history libraries in the Western Hemisphere, and a permanent collection of more than 30 million specimens and cultural artifacts. With a scientific staff of more than 200, the Museum supports research divisions in Anthropology, Paleontology, Invertebrate and Vertebrate Zoology, and the Physical Sciences. The Museum shares its treasures and discoveries with approximately four million on-site visitors from around the world each year. AMNH-produced exhibitions and Space Shows can currently be seen in venues on five continents reaching an audience of millions. In addition, the Museum's Web site, www.amnh.org, extends its collections, exhibitions, and educational programs to millions more beyond the Museum's walls.

Performances of Il mondo della luna are made possible in part with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Il mondo della luna will run from January 19 - 28, 2010 at the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, with performances on Tuesday, January 19 at 7:30pm (Opening Night); Wednesday, January 20 at 8pm; Monday, January 25 at 8pm; Tuesday, January 26 at 8pm; Wednesday, January 27 at 8pm; and Thursday, January 28 at 8pm. The Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History is located in the Rose Center for Earth and Space on West 81st Street (between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue). Tickets are $30-$125 and are available through Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or www.ticketcentral.com. Opening Night and after-party tickets are available by calling (212) 868-4460.
For more information, visit www.gothamchamberopera.org.

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Deux musiciens de lOrchestre symphonique de Montral invits au Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau


Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau



Gatineau, le 8 janvier 2010 Le mois de janvier 2010 sera riche en vnements exceptionnels au Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau! Les 15 et 16 janvier se tiendra le Salon de la clarinette, avec le matre invit Andr Moisan, clarinette basse et saxophone solo lOrchestre symphonique de Montral. Monsieur Moisan offrira des classes de matre et un rcital, et il dirigera le Chur de clarinettes form pour loccasion. Le 30 janvier, Paul Merkelo, trompette solo lOSM, sera linvit de la Journe des cuivres. Monsieur Merkelo donnera une classe de matre et un rcital. Les professeurs du Conservatoire Yves Lussier (trompette) et Julie Fauteux (cor) offriront galement une classe de matre aux lves de la rgion.
Lentre est libre pour toutes les activits.
Les lves dsirant participer aux classes de matre doivent sinscrire en communiquant avec le Conservatoire au 819 772-3283 poste 29.
Ne manquez la visite de ces deux invits prestigieux! Pour plus dinformation, veuillez consulter lhoraire ci-dessous.

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Andr Moisan
est rput pour sa matrise de l'instrument, sa grande musicalit et la clart de son jeu. Il occupe, au sein de l'OSM, le pupitre de saxophone solo et de clarinette basse depuis mai 1999. Animateur et pdagogue accompli, il dirige, toujours l'OSM, la srie Matines Jeunessedepuis 1998. Il est galement professeur agrg la facult de musique de l'Universit de Montral o il enseigne depuis 1989.

Paul Merkelo
est reconnu dans toute lAmrique du Nord comme lun des plus minents trompettistes de sa gnration. Ses qualits techniques exceptionnelles et son sens du lyrisme lui ont valu les loges des critiques musicaux les plus influents. Monsieur Merkelo sest joint LOrchestre symphonique de Montral en 1995, o il occupe maintenant le poste de trompette solo.

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Salon de la clarinette


Vendredi 15 janvier
9h30-11h30 1re Classe de matre dAndr Moisan avec des lves des coles secondaires de Gatineau.
13h00-15h00 2e Classe de matre dAndr Moisan avec un autre groupe des coles du secondaire incluant Ottawa.
19h00-21h00 Kiosque Twigg pour achat ou essai des instruments.

Samedi, 16 janvier
9h30-11h30 3e Classe de matre avec les lves du conservatoire et des lves de lUniversit dOttawa.
13h00-16h00 Rptition dun Chur de clarinettes des clarinettistes avancs de la rgion Gatineau-Ottawa sous la direction de M. Andr Moisan.
19h30 1ere partie : Rcital du clarinettiste Andr Moisan. Au piano, Pierre-Richard Aubin.
2e partie : Chur de clarinette sous la direction de M. Andr Moisan.

Journe des cuivres

Samedi 30 janvier

10h-12h00 Classe de matre de Paul Merkelo

13h-14h Classe de matre de Julie Fauteux et Yves Lussier pour les lves de la rgion.

14h-15h Rcital du trompettiste Paul Merkelo. Au piano, Pierre-Richard Aubin.

Entre libre toutes les activits.



Consultez sans tarder le calendrier complet de nos activits sur notre site Internet www.conservatoire.gouv.qc.ca. Ce site vous offre de vous abonner un fil RSS, une faon simple et pratique dtre inform sur nos activits (www.conservatoire.gouv.qc.ca/rss). Procurez-vous galement notre dpliant de la programmation 2009-2010 en tlphonant au 819 772-3283.

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Nol en janvier

Les Rhapsodes - Saison 2009-2010 - Allegro e Maestoso!

Le Chur Les Rhapsodes enregistre au Palais Montcalm

Qubec, le 7 janvier 2010 Le Chur Les Rhapsodes retourne au Palais Montcalm du vendredi 8 janvier au dimanche 10 janvier 2010, pour une sance denregistrement qui sannonce prometteuse. Sous la direction musicale et artistique de David Rompr, prs de soixante-dix choristes et un ensemble instrumental compos de Jocelyn Turbis, tienne Lafrance et Ren Roulx enregistreront les arrangements de jazz de Nol prsents pour la premire fois avec un grand succs le 12 dcembre dernier, dans ce mme Palais Montcalm. Le CD Jazzons Nol ! sera lanc lautomne 2010.

Le CD sera consacr des nols parmi les plus connus, revisits par quelques-uns des meilleurs arrangeurs de jazz du Qubec. Ces musiciens de grand talent ont transform pour le Chur Les Rhapsodes les nols les plus traditionnels, leur donnant le rythme du jazz en mme temps quune nouvelle vie. Jocelyn Turbis au piano, tienne Lafrance la contrebasse et Ren Roulx la batterie accompagneront ainsi le Chur Les Rhapsodes pour le gospel endiabl de Il est n le divin enfant, la samba mlancolique des Anges dans nos campagnes ou le blues langoureux du Sommeil de lenfant Jsus. Le concert Jazzons Nol ! a t prsent le 12 dcembre dernier avec lappui de STEAMATIC.

Ds le 27 mars prochain, le Chur prsentera au Palais Montcalm, le Requiem allemand de Brahms, un monument du rpertoire symphonique et du chant choral, interprt avec un orchestre de prs de quarante instrumentistes. La saison 2009-2010 du Chur Les Rhapsodes est ralise en partenariat avec ASSURANCES ET SERVICES FINANCIERS DES AMRIQUES.

Lensemble de la saison 2009-2010 est commandit par LINSTITUT CANADIEN DES PRODUITS PTROLIERS, VOYAGES FUNTASTIQUE et HYDRO QUBEC. Le Chur Les Rhapsodes bnficie de lappui du Service de la culture de la Ville de Qubec, du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qubec, de Patrimoine canadien, de Placements Culture, du ministre de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition fminine et de la Facult de Musique de lUniversit Laval.

propos du Chur Les Rhapsodes
Le Chur Les Rhapsodes prsente en 2009-2010 sa 48e saison. Il compte soixante choristes placs sous la direction musicale et artistique de David Rompr depuis 2000. Le Chur Les Rhapsodes est reconnu comme lun des organismes musicaux majeurs de la Capitale nationale. Il a pour mission de promouvoir lart musical et en particulier le chant choral, de dvelopper de nouveaux publics et de favoriser le dveloppement des nouveaux talents Qubec en engageant chacun des concerts de sa saison des solistes et instrumentistes professionnels de la rgion. Pour plus dinformation, visitez le site Internet du Chur, www.lesrhapsodes.com

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Cut/Paste: Creative Reuse in Canadian Design

Exhibition on display at the ROM from January 20 to 31, 2010

(Toronto, Ontario January 8, 2010) Motherbrand and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) proudly present Cut/Paste: Creative Reuse in Canadian Design, an exhibition that explores the practice of creating new designs from existing and salvaged products. The exhibition will run from January 20 31, 2010 at the ROMs Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC), coinciding with the first annual Toronto International Design Festival.

Creative reuse has become one of the most visible trends in contemporary international design. Prominent Canadian designers such as Tobias Wong and Douglas Coupland have garnered attention for their witty redesigns of existing products and as Motherbrand cofounder Michael Erdmann explains, their work is part of a strong Canadian tradition. Creative reuse has deep roots in Canadian material culture. Naturally, this type of improvisation occurs all over the world, often arising out of necessity, but in a young nation like Canada these conditions tend to spring up a lot. Examples in the show range from early First Nations adaptations of European products, to depression era solutions such as the Bennett Buggy and Fred Moffats iconic K42 Kettle produced in response to war time manufacturing restraints. More recently, creative reuse has fueled many of the nations independent design manufacturers. Manufacturing in Canada tends to be relatively small scale and specialized. Sourcing materials from existing products is a powerful way to overcome these limitations, says Motherbrands John Ryan. Adding, The smallest of firms and even non-designers are able to produce products this way.

A function of the ICC at the ROM is the exploration of different cultures and their relationship to each other and over time. Concerns over the environment and sustainability, as well as the ways we confront these issues have become hallmarks of our generation.  As such, the ROM is very pleased to host this exhibition, which shines a light on the inventive ways Canadian designers are advancing contemporary design while adapting to 21st century needs, said Francisco Alvarez, Managing Director of the ICC.

Environmental sustainability is an issue that most of these designs address in some way, says Todd Falkowsky. The Motherbrand cofounder continues, This is a powerful tactic for reducing our consumption of energy and materials; it forces us to reconsider what we consider waste. A lot of these designs are produced in relatively small numbers, so their influence is largely conceptual, but the impact is real. Based on the success of these designs, manufacturers such as Umbra and Gus* Modern are finding ways to apply the same approach to larger production runs.  Working in the developing world, Canadian designers are also using creative reuse as a tactic for improving social conditions. The Bambulance Project by Design For Development is a great example, says Erdmann. Their bicycle ambulance provides basic emergency transportation in isolated communities. By utilizing local and reclaimed materials, even impoverished groups can afford to produce the design themselves.

Cut/Paste is one of a pair of exhibits curated by Motherbrand, exploring the act of sampling in Canadian material culture. The second exhibition titled Copy: The fine tradition of imitation in Canadian ceramics, highlights inspired cases of mimicry drawn from Canadian production ceramics, both past and present. Copy runs from January 8 to February 5 at the Gardiner Museum.

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Valrie Milot : harpiste prime au jeu color et puissant

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Sherbrooke, le 8 janvier 2010   Proclame Rvlation Radia-Canada Musique pour lanne 2009-2010, la harpiste trifluvienne Valrie Milot donnera un concert de harpe solo le 30 janvier prochain au Thtre Centennial 20 h.  Au programme, une slection de pices tires de son premier disque  Rvlation : rcital de harpe  dont Suite pour harpe solo de Benjamin Britten ainsi que le Concerto pour harpe en si bmol majeur de Haendel.

Laurate du prestigieux Prix dEurope en 2008, elle a aussi t laurate de nombreux autres prix, dont le Prix Opus Dcouverte de lanne 2008 et le Prix Jeune Soliste 2009 des Radios francophones publiques.  PLUS DINFORMATION DANS LE COMMUNIQU EN PICE JOINTE.


*      Page du concert (vido/audio): http://www.ubishops.ca/centennial/program/valerie-milot-fr.html
*      Site Web de lartiste : http://www.valeriemilot.com/
*      Radio-Canada / Rvlations: http://musique.radio-canada.ca/concerts_evenements/revelations_musicales_2009_2010/valerie_milot.asp
*      Information sur lartiste et le nouveau disque: http://www.analekta.com/fr/artistes/valerie-milot.1138.html


VALRIE MILOT Samedi 30 janvier - 20 h
THTRE CENTENNIAL  www.centennialtheatre.ca
Billetterie / Rservations  819-822-9692                 Adultes : $20   Ans (60+) / tudiants (avec carte) : $15

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APAP Conference NYC 2010 Special Focus: Performing Arts Industry Looks to Greener Pastures in the New Year

First Ever Performing Arts Industry Greening Survey Indicates Strong Desire from Organizations to Enhance Environmental Practices

NEW YORK, NY Performing arts organizations are determined to make a positive impact on the environment. That is one of several key findings released today from the first industry-wide study of greening in the performing arts, commissioned by Arts Presenters, in partnership with the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and leading consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. The survey, designed to examine the performing arts industry's attitudes and perceptions towards environmental issues, collected empirical data from 324 organizations. 83 percent of respondents said their organizations have implemented green initiatives, but only 24 percent have formalized green policies and goals in their organizations. One-third of respondents cited a lack of resources as the main barrier to going green. 

 "We are very encouraged learning through this first ever greening study for our performing arts industry that a large number of arts organizations are interested in greening and have taken the beginning steps to reduce their environmental footprint. We are also made aware of the important role the association can play in advancing knowledge about and providing resources to help our field take significant steps to reduce their impact on the environment and engage audiences and their communities in doing the same," said Sandra Gibson, President and CEO, Arts Presenters.

Survey results indicate the following:

  • The majority of organizations are committed to going green and have or are pursuing some of the first steps towards reducing their environmental footprint
  • Most organizations have an informal program focused on internal and ad hoc opportunities
  • Few organizations have a formal program with specific reduction commitments or the ability to measure their improvement
  • Few organizations are leveraging the full scope of their impact by connecting with their audiences, where they have the greatest ability to influence behavior and have the greatest environmental impact
  • Lack of resources is the most frequently cited reason for not doing more
  • Organizations are only moderately effective in communicating their work to the public and impacting their behavior
 "This survey demonstrates a critical opportunity for growth in our industry," said Terrence D. Jones, President and CEO of Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. "Because the arts are society's storytellers, we have a double opportunity of leading by example and using our art to encourage others to follow their own paths to environmental sustainability." The Wolf Trap Foundation has reduced its carbon footprint by 19% in two years and has commissioned environmentally-themed work as part of the summer season in the 7,000-seat Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts.

"It is impressive to see the number of performing arts organizations that are actively greening their facilities and operations. There are many opportunities for private and public participation in these efforts to take advantage of the enthusiasm and interest of the presenters and audiences to make even greater impact that will reduce operating costs and improve the environment," concluded David Erne, Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton.
The complete survey results and analysis can be found here. 

About the Association of Performing Arts Presenters 

Founded in 1957, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (Arts Presenters, or APAP) is the national service organization for the field of arts presenting. The organization is dedicated to developing and supporting a robust performing arts presenting field and the professionals who work in it. Arts Presenters has nearly 2,000 organizational members and brings nearly 4,000 performing arts professionals together from around the world at the annual APAP Conference NYC. Members range from the nation's leading performing arts centers, to civic and university performance facilities, to the full spectrum of artist agencies, managers, national consulting practices that service the field, and a growing roster of self-presenting artists.

Arts Presenters is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, based in Washington, D.C. and is governed by a volunteer board of directors. Arts Presenters is led by its CEO Sandra Gibson, now in her ninth year. In addition to presenting the annual APAP Conference NYC the world's leading forum and marketplace for the performing arts (January 8-12, 2010) Arts Presenters continues to be the industry's leading resource, knowledge and networking destination for the advancement of performing arts presenting. 

About The Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts 

The Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts is a non-profit organization founded by Catherine Filene Shouse (1896-1994) that produces and presents a full-range of performance and education programs in the Greater Washington area, as well as nationally and internationally. Wolf Trap, America's National Park for the Performing Arts, is home to three performance venues: the Filene Center, Children's Theatre in the Woods and The Barns. The Filene Center, which operates in partnership with the National Park Service, is a 7,028-seat outdoor pavilion that showcases an extensive list of diverse artists, ranging from pop, country, folk and blues to orchestra, dance, theater and opera, as well as multimedia presentations from May through September each year; The Barns operate year round. The Wolf Trap Opera Company is one of America's outstanding resident ensemble programs for young opera singers. Wolf Trap's education programs include the nationally acclaimed Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, scholarships, master classes, and internships. Visit the Wolf Trap Web site at www.wolftrap.org for more information. Terrence D. Jones is president and CEO of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. 

About Booz Allen Hamilton 

Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of strategy and technology consulting for 95 years. Every day, government agencies, institutions, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations rely on the firm's expertise and objectivity, and on the combined capabilities and dedication of our exceptional people to find solutions and seize opportunities. Providing a broad range of services in strategy, operations, organization and change, information technology, systems engineering, and program management, Booz Allen is committed to delivering results that endure.

With more than 22,000 people, Booz Allen generates $4.5 billion in annual revenue. To learn more about the firm, visit www.boozallen.com.

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Triumph for the Morgenstern Trio: German Piano Trio Awarded Prestigious Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award - National Tour Planned for 2010-2011 & 2011-12 Seasons -


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FARMINGTON HILLS, MI. The Chamber Music Society of Detroit today announced that the 2009 winner of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award (KLRITA) is the Morgenstern Trio. After a call for nominations sent internationally to classical music presenters, musicians, educators and other professionals, the trio was selected in New York by a panel comprising musicians Jonathan Biss, Joel Krosnick, Jamie Laredo, Sharon Robinson and Michael Tree, and two Award presenters, Jeremy Geffen, Carnegie Hall, and Shauna Quill, the University of Chicago Presents.

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     Award supported by $30,000 gift from each of twenty participating presenters
     Only existing piano trio award worldwide
     Catapults the careers of talented, young piano trios
     As a benefit of the Award, the Morgenstern Trio will make its first U.S. tour
     Prestigious Award now announcing the winners of its fourth cycle
     Named for the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, now in its 34th year
    Personal Interest: Unaware of their nominations, the musicians are surprised and thrilled to win the Award: one ensemble thought the news was "a hoax," too good to be true, another trio danced in the streets and the current winners said they needed no other gifts for Christmas.

ABOUT THE WINNING ENSEMBLE
Taking its name from the popular German poet, author and humorist Christian Morgenstern (1871 1914), the Morgenstern Trio was formed in 2005 at the Folkwang Academy in Essen, Germany; its membership consists of pianist Catherine Klipfel from France, violinist Stefan Hempel from Germany (who joined the ensemble in the summer of 2009, succeeding violinist Nina Reddig) and cellist Emanuel Wehse from Germany. In 2007, after only two years of intensive collaboration, the Trio was awarded first prize at the International Joseph Haydn Competition in Vienna, second prize at the Fifth Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition and second prize and the audience prize at the prestigious ARD Competition in Munich.

The Morgenstern Trio has toured throughout Europe under the auspices of the Bundesauswahl Konzerte Junger Knstler (a national concert organization for Germanys rising young artists) and the Best of NRW concert series. Festival appearances include the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, France, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Heidelberger Frhling, the WDR Musikfest and the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland.  The Trio was recently invited to participate in the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO) "Rising Stars" series and is making its debut during the 2009-2010 season at leading concert halls across Europe in such major cities as Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Cologne, Brussels, Birmingham and Stockholm. The ensemble has appeared on numerous radio broadcasts throughout Europe and released its debut CD of works by Beethoven and Brahms in 2008. Providing the Morgenstern Trios debut appearances in the United States, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award tour will take on a special significance for this accomplished trio.

ABOUT THE AWARD
A biennial piano trio award, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award derives its impetus from the desire to honor the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio (Joseph Kalichstein, piano, Jaime Laredo, violin, Sharon Robinson, cello) in perpetuity by giving recognition to this prestigious trio's contribution to chamber music worldwide for over 30 years.  In addition, the award was created to encourage and enhance the careers of accomplished and extraordinarily promising young and "rising" piano trios that will be chosen every other year.  To be considered for the award, trios must have been together for approximately 5-10 years, be actively engaged in touring and have professional management. The KLRITA is administered by the Chamber Music Society of Detroit.

Originated by Lois R. Beznos, President of the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, the KLRITA is based upon the collaboration of 20 participating chamber music presenters. The winning trio benefits from presentation on the series of these 20 participating presenters nationwide over the two-year award period.  Moreover, the Award provides for a CD recording of the winning trio by Azica Records.  The winning trio also benefits from the contribution by Kenneth Warren & Son, Ltd. of instrument maintenance services by its workshop in addition to its efforts to identify the highest quality violins and cellos as prospective loans to the trio winners during the award period.

SUPPORT
The KLRITA is supported in part by the contribution of $30,000 each by the 20 participating chamber music presenting organizations across the U.S., including the Chamber Music Society of Detroit. A unique advantage to presenters is that, in perpetuity, they will have the benefit of an endowed concert, paid for by the award endowment fund, every other season.  Additional support for the KLRITA comes from Jean and Sam Frankel, the Matilda R. Wilson Fund and the Whitney Fund.

RECOGNITION OPPORTUNITIES
Significant recognition opportunities are available for additional major donors to the award endowment.  For information, please contact Lois Beznos, President, Chamber Music Society of Detroit at 248-737-9982.

KLRITA WINNERS
The winners of the KLRITA to date have been:
Claremont Trio, 2003
Trio con Brio Copenhagen, 2005
ATOS Trio, 2007
Morgenstern Trio, 2009

The ATOS Trio, current winner of the KLRITA, will complete its Award tour during the 2009-2010 season after which the Morgenstern Trio will embark upon its twenty-concert KLRITA Award tour during the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons.

KLRITA PRESENTERS
The following chamber music presenters have contributed to the KLRITA endowment fund to participate in the award:

Ames Town & Gown Chamber Music Association
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
Carnegie Hall

Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts
Chamber Music Cincinnati

Chamber Music Monterey Bay
Chamber Music Sedona

Chamber Music Society of Detroit
Chamber Music Society of Louisville

Chamber Music Society of Utica
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland
El Camino College Center for the Arts
Friends of Chamber Music - Kansas City

Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival

Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts
Purdue Convocations - Purdue University
San Antonio Chamber Music Society

Thomasville Entertainment Foundation
University of Chicago Presents



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Le dcs de Bruno Roy, une grande perte pour le milieu des arts et des lettres


(Montral, le 7 janvier 2010) - C'est avec une grande tristesse que les membres du Mouvement pour les  arts et les lettres ont appris le dcs de leur collgue et ami Bruno Roy. Cet tre passionn et dvou a, pendant son passage titre de reprsentant de l'UNEQ au M.A.L. de 2000 2004, milit pour l'amlioration de la qualit de vie des artistes, des artisans, des crivains et des travailleurs culturels. Il a t un ardent dfenseur de leurs droits en tant toujours solidaire de l'ensemble de sa communaut.

Sa participation aux runions du Mouvement tait toujours gnreuse, pondre et pleine d'humour. Il savait exprimer avec justesse les enjeux conomiques et politiques que soulevait la dfense des artistes et des travailleurs culturels. Lorsqu'il s'agissait de les faire connatre publiquement, il l'a toujours fait avec force et avec dtermination, sans mesurer son temps.

En 2007, alors qu'il tait appel rdiger une dclaration pour le Mouvement, Bruno Roy crivait ceci : Nous savons de quels efforts continus les artistes construisent les russites d'une ville, d'une rgion, d'une province ou d'un pays. Cette vrit est universelle : leurs ouvres sont ancres dans la vie de la communaut et elles sont ncessaires l'panouissement de cette communaut autant qu' leur mmoire. Nos ouvres nous chantent, nous crivent et nous nomment la face du monde. (...) D'hier aujourd'hui, le rle des arts et des lettres, en tant que force d'intgration, a toujours pris et prend une importance vitale dans l'affirmation des identits d'un peuple. Les reprsentants des associations nationales des arts et des lettres et des conseils rgionaux de la culture membres du Mouvement pour les arts et les lettres endossaient et continuent d'endosser pleinement cette dclaration. Ils transmettent leurs plus sincres condolances la famille prouve et tous ses amis crivains. 

Pour ceux et celles qui veulent lui rendre un dernier hommage : 

EXPOSITION
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Montral
 
Jeudi 14 janvier
de 18 h 22 h
 
Vendredi 15 janvier
de 14 h 17 h et de 19 h 22 h
 
SERVICE : Samedi 16 janvier 13 h, glise St-Denis (Laurier coin St-Denis)

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Vocalist Announces The New Live 3, A 3-Part Vocal Harmonizer And Pitch Correction Pedal For Guitarists

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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah DigiTech, a leading manufacturer of vocal processors, and a Harman International company (NYSE-HAR), has announced the newest addition to the Vocalist product line, the Live 3. The Live 3 provides guitarists a 3-part vocal harmony, pitch correction, and vocal pre-effects in a single pedal.

The new Vocalist Live 3 is a powerful yet easy-to-use intelligent vocal harmony processor that automatically generates live multi-part vocal harmony by analyzing guitar chord progressions and the lead voice. The Live 3 gives virtually all artists, soloists and groups alike the ability to perform more songs that in the past had been considered too difficult without professionally trained backup vocalists.

The Live 3 combines studio-quality audio performance, state-of-the-art vocal processing, and an easy-to-use control interface to add up to two separate voices of harmony to a lead vocal to create a full 3-part, natural-sounding vocal performance. The Live 3 has Gender Control that gives each harmonizing voice a masculine or feminine sound. Users can customize the natural sound of the harmonizing voices from loose to tight by adjusting the Humanize setting.

Using patented musIQ technology, the Live 3 continually follows the notes being played on the guitar and the lead voice to generate accurate and musically correct vocal harmonies. musIQ eliminates the need to pre-program the songs key or key changes to create get accurate harmonies, making the Live 3 much easier to use.

The Live 3 is the tool performers are searching for to capture the audiences attention and take their performance to the next level. stated Scott Klimt, Marketing Manager for Vocalist.

The Live 3 is designed to enhance and improve virtually every vocal performance using pitch-correction with Humanize Control and vocal pre-effects. The pitch correction in the Live 3 has the most natural sound available on the market. There are also five different vocal pre-effects available in the Live 3 to help give the vocals a high quality, professional-grade studio sound. These effects include warmth (tube preamp), compression, EQ, and Noise Gate. There are three different room settings for reverb and five separate delay settings for vocals. The Live 3 also has guitar effects, reverb and chorus along with a guitar tuner.

The Vocalist Live 3 is now shipping with a MSRP of $429.95.

DigiTech is a wholly owned subsidiary of Harman International Industries, Incorporated (www.harman.com <http://www.harman.com/> ). Harman International designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of audio and infotainment products for the automotive, consumer and professional markets, and maintains a strong presence in the Americas, Europe and Asia, employing more than 11,000 people worldwide. The Harman International family of brands includes AKG, Audioaccess, Becker, BSS, Crown, dbx, DigiTech, Harman Kardon, Infinity, JBL, Lexicon, Mark Levinson, Revel, QNX, Soundcraft and Studer. Harman Internationals stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NYSE: HAR.

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Cunard Partners With The Juilliard School to Present Jazz Performances Aboard Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic Crossings in 2010

SOUTHAMPTON, England, Jan. 7 /CNW/ -- Cunard Line, operator of the most famous ocean liners in the world, is pleased to announce a partnership with The Juilliard School that will present stellar jazz performances on select 2010 eastbound Transatlantic Crossings aboard Queen Mary 2. Students and faculty from Juilliard, which has set America's standard for education in the performing arts, will perform programmes in the ship's Royal Court Theatre, treating guests to the best in classic and contemporary jazz. These presentations are part of Cunard's entertainment and award-winning enrichment programme, which showcases a variety of compelling entertainers - from new and emerging world-class talent to today's most enduring and iconic artists. Last August, Juilliard Jazz scholar Jumaane Smith became the first student from the school to take the stage onboard Queen Mary 2, presenting a trumpet recital that proved to be very popular with the voyage's guests.
    About Juilliard
The Juilliard School established this country's standard for education in the performing arts, beginning with music in 1905. In 1951, its Dance Division was established, with combined training in contemporary and ballet technique. Juilliard became part of Lincoln Center in 1968, and added a four-year drama program. A residence hall - the School's first - was completed in 1990, and in 2001, Juilliard broke new ground with the addition of its jazz program; a graduate program in Historical Performance begins in Fall 2009, the same year that Juilliard inaugurates its partnership with the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. As Juilliard commences its second century of excellence, it is expanding its facilities with a 39,000 square-foot addition, due for completion in 2009. Currently more than 800 young artists from 39 states (plus Washington, D.C.) and 46 foreign countries attend Juilliard. For more information, visit Juilliard's Web site at www.juilliard.edu.
About Cunard Line
Cunard Line, operator of the luxury ocean liners Queen Mary 2 and
Queen Victoria, has long been synonymous with the quest for new
discoveries and the epitome of British refinement since the company's
first paddle-wheeled steamer, Britannia, crossed the Atlantic in 1840.
Cunard voyages bring together like-minded travelers who seek a
civilized adventure and relish the Cunard hallmarks of impeccable White
Star Service(TM), gourmet dining and world-class entertainment. Today,
Cunard offers the only regularly scheduled Transatlantic liner service
and continues the legacy of world cruising which it began in 1922.
Queen Elizabeth joins the fleet in October 2010.
Cunard Line is a proud member of World's Leading Cruise Lines. The exclusive alliance also includes Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, Costa Cruises and The Yachts of Seabourn. Sharing a passion to please each guest, and a commitment to quality and value, member lines appeal to a wide range of lifestyles and budgets. Together they offer exciting and enriching cruise vacations to the world's most desirable destinations.
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Masters of Persian Music - Three Generations -

Friday, February 5, 2010 at 8 PM / Roy Thomson Hall
Tickets: $69.50 - $49.50 - Call 416-872-4255 or buy online at www.roythomson.com
or visit the Roy Thomson Hall Box Office


Toronto, ON.  January 7, 2010 After an absence of four years, the Grammy-nominated Masters of Persian Music, an ensemble of Irans most celebrated musicians, returns to Roy Thomson Hall on Friday, February 5, 2010 at 8 PM. This latest tour, titled Three Generations, spotlights the talents of two of the pre-eminent figures in Persian classical music the inspirational Hossein Alizadeh, maestro of the Tar (plucked lute) and Kayhan Kalhor, the worlds greatest virtuoso of the Kamancheh (spike fiddle). Also featured is the remarkable young vocalist Hamid Reza Nourbakhsh, the leading disciple of the legendary Mohammad Reza Shajarian. They are joined by Pezhham Akhavass on Percussion, Fariborz Azizi on Bass Tar, Siamak Jahangiry on Ney (reed flute), and Rouzbeh Rahimi on Santur (hammered dulcimer). The Toronto concert is the first stop on the groups 13-city, three-week North American tour that winds up at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Hossein Alizadeh, born in Tehran in 1951, is Irans most famous master of the Tar, and an inspiration to an entire generation of his nations musical culture. In 2000, he was declared Best Contemporary Artist by Irans Ministry of Culture and in 2006 his album, Endless Vision, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album of the Year.  He is also known for his soundtracks of such award-winning Iranian films as A Time for Drunken Horses and Gabbeh. The Tar is known in Iran as the King of Instruments. 

Kayhan Kalhor, internationally renowned Kamancheh performer, is a major creative force in todays world music scene and has been instrumental in popularizing Persian music in the West. Born in Tehran in 1963, he has performed as soloist with many ensembles and orchestras including the New York Philharmonic and is a member of Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Ensemble. His compositions appear on all three of the Silk Road Ensembles albums; three of his own recent recordings have been nominated for Grammy Awards.

Hamid Reza Nourbakhsh is considered one of todays finest Iranian vocalists, following in the footsteps of his celebrated mentor, Mohammad Reza Shajarian. He has performed with many renowned artists and groups, including the Aref Ensemble, the Ukraine Philharmonic Orchestra, and the great Santur maestro Faramarz Payvar. He appeared with Kayhan Kalhor at the Thtre de la Ville in Paris and is currently the director of Irans House of Music. This is his debut tour of North America.  

The music of Iran is contemplative, spiritual, and beautiful a response to the countrys landscape, turbulent history, and collective soul.  Poetry is also central to Persian classical music and vocal sections are often set to the poetry of medieval Sufi mystical poets. The appeal of Persian classical music to Western audiences in recent years is evidenced by cellist Yo-Yo Ma's decision to add Persian music to his Silk Road Project tours and recordings.  

This performance is sponsored by Lexus
This performance is a co-presentation with Small World Music

MASTERS OF PERSIAN MUSIC: Three Generations
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 8 PM / Roy Thomson Hall / Toronto
Tickets $69.50 - $49.50 - Call 416-872-4255 or visit the Roy Thomson Hall Box Office, www.roythomson.com

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New Production of Roberto Devereux by Donizetti opens January 30

All Hail the Queen - Minnesota Opera 
Minnesota Opera is proud to announce the first installment in Gaetano Donizetti's trilogy of operas based on the Tudor queens, Roberto Devereux, Mary Stuart and in 2011-2012 with Anne Boleyn. Leading a boutique cast of Bel Canto experts is Minnesota Opera favorite soprano Brenda Harris (Orazi e Curiazi) as Queen Elizabeth I opposite Portuguese tenor Bruno Ribeiro, who makes his Minnesota Opera debut as her treacherous lover, Roberto Devereux, Earl of Essex. Kevin Newbury (The Barber of Seville) returns to direct this superb cast with Bel Canto specialist Francesco Maria Colombo (Maria Padilla, Orazi e Curiazi) conducting the Minnesota Opera Orchestra. Set Designer Neil Patel Jessica Jahn have joined forces to create a beautiful, fresh period-inspired production to showcase the most important element of the Bel Canto style, the voice.

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We are thrilled to hail the return of Bel Canto master soprano Brenda Harris, "a brilliant Elizabeth whose stunning bel canto instrument effortlessly negotiated Act Ones tricky vocal acrobatics. From tender interludes to thundering royal ragings, she was every inch a queen in command of her kingdom and this performance." - The Washington Times

Click here for performance dates, full artist bios and further information about Roberto Devereux.

Minnesota Opera also joins with the Arts Partners in celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Ordway on Sunday, January 17. A full press release can be found here.



Production Information
THE CAST
Elisabetta, Queen of England - Brenda Harris
Roberto Devereux, Earl of Essex - Bruno Ribeiro
Duke of Nottingham - Lester Lynch
Sara, Duchess of Nottingham - Tamara Klivadenko
Lord Cecil - Brad Benoit
Sir Gualtiero Raleigh - Jonathan Kimple
A page - Michael Nyby
A friend of Nottingham - Rodolfo Nieto

THE CREATIVE TEAM
Conductor - Francesco Maria Colombo
Stage Director - Kevin Newbury
Set Designer - Neil Patel
Costume Designer - Jessica Jahn
Lighting Designer - D. M. Wood

PERFORMANCE DATES
Saturday, Jan. 30, 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 7, 2:00 p.m.

ORDWAY
345 Washington Street, St. Paul, MN 55102

TICKETS
$20 - $200
Call the Minnesota Opera Ticket Office at 612.333.6669 or purchase online at mnopera.org.

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Celebrate Black History Month at Harbourfront Centre's 14th Annual Kuumba Festival

Presented by TD

Two jam-packed weekends celebrating the history and the future of black culture


TORONTO, ON (Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010) Kuumba
, Toronto's longest-running and largest Black History Month festival returns to Harbourfront Centre with two jam-packed weekends commemorating both the history and the future of black culture. The first weekend of Kuumba focuses on ideas surrounding Old School and Power of Soul while the second weekend will explore themes of Black to the Future and One Love.

Kuumba is the Swahili word for creativity and has become synonymous with showcasing the best local and international artists from the African and Caribbean diaspora each February at Harbourfront Centre. Join us Feb. 6-7 and Feb. 13-14, 2010 for dance workshops, film screenings, music, comedy, family activities, food demos and more. All programming is FREE (except the Valentines Day Comedy Clash $10, $15 at the door) and runs each day from 1 p.m. into the evening.

Kuumba, presented by TD, runs Feb. 6-7 and Feb. 13-14, 2010. All events take place at Harbourfront Centre (235 Queens Quay West). For more information and to purchase tickets for the Valentines Day Comedy Clash, the public can call 416-973-4000 or visit harbourfrontcentre.com/kuumba


FESTIVAL DETAILS

MUSIC

SAIDAH BABA TALIBAH
Feb. 6, 8:30-11 p.m.

Saidah Baba Talibah is the daughter of Obie award-winner and Tony- and Grammy-nominated Salome Bey, Canada's Queen of Jazz, Blues and Spirituals, and the niece of Andy Bey, also a Grammy-nominated musician. She offers up a distinct and fluid blend of bluesy rock, deep funk and hot, buttered soul with a voice that can go from a seductive, soft purr to a powerful bellow at the turn of a dime. With special guest DJ LOqenz spinning the tunes.

DRUM TILL YOU DROP
Feb. 6 & 7, 1:30 p.m.
Learn to play traditional African drums (djembe, sangban, kensedeni, dununba) with
Barrington Hibbert! A limited number of drums are available; participants are asked to bring their own drums.

URBAN X-POSURE: SoWhatChuSayin?
Feb. 13, 2-5 p.m.

This event honours consciousness in hip hop and spoken word (active art forms for social change) and features an artist showcase and cash prize contest for the most talented conscious wordsmith and raptivist rhymer! An open "infotainment" forum will be set up, featuring organizations that marry art with commerce and activism, giving youth the tools to get involved. Representatives from non-profit urban art organizations include: Manifesto, Lost Lyrics, Beatz to Da Streetz, Nia, Stolen From Africa, Young Diplomats, Regent Park Focus, Medina Collective, L.I.F.E. Movement and the Toronto Youth Cabinet.

Co-produced with UMAC, The Urban Music Association of Canada

DJ SKATE NIGHTS
(The Real) Soul on Ice: Feb. 6, 8-11 p.m.

DJs Carl Allen and Kwame Younge spin the best in soul, funk, house & reggae!

SALSA 101 FOR DUMMIES
Feb. 6 & 7, 4-5 p.m.

A live music and dance class with Cuban musician extraordinaire Roberto Linares Brown and dance instructor Vladimir Aranda.


FOOD DEMONSTRATIONS


Enjoy traditional Caribbean cuisine prepared by La-toya Fagon of Twist Catering and Ras Iville & Ikeila Wright from One Love Corn! Patricia J. hosts.
- Stew Chicken with Rice and Peas (Feb. 6, 5:30-6:30 p.m.)
- Jamaicas National Dish: Ackee & Saltfish with Fried Dumplings (Feb. 7, 5:30-6:30 p.m.)
- Coconut Rice & Peas, Fried Cornmeal Dumplings & Cocoa Tea (Feb. 14, 5:30-6:30 p.m.)
- Callaloo Soup (Feb. 13, 5-6 p.m.)

FILM SCREENINGS & PANEL DISCUSSIONS


Soul Power!
Feb. 6, 6:30-8 p.m. & Feb. 7, 1-3:30 p.m.

In 1974, the most celebrated American R&B acts of the time came together with the most renowned musical groups in Africa for a 12-hour, three-night concert held in Kinshasa, Zaire. Included are performances by James Brown, BB King, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz and many others.

Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae
Feb. 7, 4:30-6 p.m.
The remaining great singers and musicians of Jamaica's Golden Age of music, Rocksteady, come together after 40 years to record an album of their greatest hits, to perform together again at a reunion concert in Kingston, and to tell their story. Features many reggae icons including The Tamlins, Stranger Cole, Dawn Penn, Derrick Morgan, Ernest Ranglin, Judy Mowatt and more.


Good Hair
Feb. 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (PANEL) & Feb. 14, 1-2:30 p.m. (NO PANEL)

An expos of comic proportions that only comedian/actor Chris Rock could pull off, Good Hair visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, scientific laboratories and Indian temples to explore the way hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships and self esteem in the black community.
POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION PANEL
: Featuring black hair experts Ruth Smith (Strictly Roots), Buster Berkley (Amorphous Group), and Asha McLeod (Jazma).

Rastafari Then and Now: A Message From Jamaica
Feb. 14, 6-7 p.m. (followed by short film preview & panel discussion)

Nation Cheong, a Rastafarian community youth worker and African drummer is concerned about youth violence and wonders if the principles and values of Rastafari could benefit todays youth. He gathers a group of black youth and takes them on a journey of discovery into Torontos Rastafarian community. Along the way, he re-connects with some of his elders which eventually leads him to travel to Jamaica, the birthplace of Rastafari, for the very first time.

In Search of Rastafari: A Souls Journey (special seven-minute preview)

Bob Marley, a Rasta Prophet, and music icon of the 20th century, almost singlehandedly spread Rastafari to the rest of the world through his powerful lyrics and music. Now, 27 years after Marleys untimely death, his granddaughter, Donisha Prendergast, 24, embarks on an epic journey of faith and self discovery as both a Rastafarian and a daughter of the Marley dynasty. Along the way she will explore the roots of Rastafari and its links to our cultures.
POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION PANEL
: Immediately following these two films, there will be drumming and a discussion panel with Nation Cheong, Doctor Patrick Taylor, and Ras Iville.


COMEDY


VALENTINES DAY COMEDY CLASH: One Love (or Diasporic Disharmony?)
**Special Ticketed Event** ($10 in advance / $15 at the door)
Feb. 13, 8:30-11 p.m.
Comedians from the U.S., Jamaica, Africa and Trinidad vie for Afrocentric supremacy and regale us with tales on how (and how not) to love the black man and woman. No subject is off limits to Jay Martin, Marc Trinidad, Dwayne Landry, Arthur Simeon!

DANCE


DANCE WORKSHOPS
Led by some of the citys finest dance instructors (including Jade Hollywood Anderson, and Vladimir Aranda), workshops will include:
- Thriller Music Video Choreography (Feb. 6, 2:30-3:30 p.m.)
- Salsa 101 for Dummies (Feb. 6 & 7, 4-5 p.m.)
- Voguing & Old School House Dancing (Feb. 7, 2:30-3:30 p.m.)

NORTHBUCK ENTERTAINMENT KRUMPING PERFORMANCE & WORKSHOP
Feb. 13, 1-2 p.m. & Feb. 14, 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Krumping, an expressive and high energy form of hip hop dance, originated in the streets of South Central Los Angeles and has quickly evolved into a global phenomenon. Northbuck is an organization of Toronto krumpers from diverse backgrounds who each faced hardships; krump was their escape. Northbuck's long-term goals are to spread the movement nationwide along with its message of positive, violence-free living.

RISE UP: YOUTH DANCE CREW COMPETITION
Feb. 13, 4-5:30 p.m.

Torontos best young dance crews battle for bragging rights and a cash prize of $500.

FAMILY


MICHEZO (games in Swahili)
Feb. 6 & 7, 1-5 p.m.
Kobna Aquaa-Harrison
hosts an interactive celebration of the art and genius of traditional African childhood games.

LEGGO MY LEGO
Feb. 6-7 & 13-14, 1-6 p.m.

Let your imagination run wild in a room full of Lego blocks!

CREATE YOUR OWN SUPERHEROES OF THE WORLD
Feb. 13 & 14, 1-6 p.m.
Super Heroes Unite
is an art project created by two Canadian artists, Mark Williams and Joe Bonsu. It involves the creation of super heroes from around the world, placing each super hero in a different country and emphasizing the importance of unity through diversity in their artwork.

ABOUT HARBOURFRONT CENTRE
Harbourfront Centre is an innovative, non-profit cultural organization which provides internationally renowned programming in the arts, culture, education and recreation, all within a collection of distinctive venues on a 10-acre site in the heart of Toronto's downtown waterfront.

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Catherine Potter Duniya Project au MAI / Catherine Potter Duniya Project at the MAI

La Convergence des Continents
Invits : Zal Idrissa Sissokho, VJ Liberty et VJ jocool
Vendredi 22 et samedi 23 janvier 2010 20h
(english will follow)
 
Catherine Potter Duniya Project : Catherine Potter : bansuri, composition et direction artistique / Subir Dev : tabla / Thom Gossage : batterie, kalimba / Jean-Marc Hbert : guitare / Nicolas Caloia : contrebasse / Invits : Zal Idrissa Sissokho : kora / Martine Koutnouyan aka VJ Liberty / Joseph Lefvre aka VJ jocool.
 
Montral, le 7 janvier 2010 La virtuose du bansuri et compositrice Catherine Potter et sa formation, Duniya Project, entours dinvits exceptionnels, font escale au MAI (Montral, arts interculturels) pour prsenter en Premire mondiale leur nouvelle cration, La Convergence des Continents, pour deux soirs seulement, les vendredi 22 et samedi 23 janvier 20h.  Il sagit dun spectacle des Productions Shadaj.
 
Avec La Convergence des Continents, Catherine Potter Duniya Project,  ensemble  world  qui mtisse une musique sans frontires et rsolument contemporaine, et leurs prestigieux invits, nous convient un spectacle au confluent de plusieurs cultures musicales. Les cinq musiciens poursuivent leur exploration musicale avec un projet novateur et une nouvelle direction qui sinscrit dans la rencontre entre la musique classique de lInde du Nord, la musique mandingue de lAfrique de lOuest, le jazz et la cration spontane. Pour ce faire, ils sentourent du rput montralais dorigine sngalaise, Zal Idrissa Sissokho, un joueur de kora sorte de harpe africaine 21 cordes dou dune grande posie, ainsi que des deux incontournables VJs montralais, Liberty et jocool la performance visuelle en directe.
 
Construit partir dun vocabulaire original issu de styles traditionnels et contemporains, le jeu sonore complexe et actuel cr par Catherine Potter et ses complices met en vidence toute la beaut des ragas indiens, tantt mls, tantt juxtaposs la richesse harmonique de la kora mandingue dAfrique et aux grooves indiens et africains. Ces compositions originales sont enlumines en direct par les couleurs, les ombres et les lments interactifs des vidastes qui proposent une exprience multidisciplinaire encore plus intense. Un spectacle qui nous emporte sur un rivage o la diversit des pratiques se conjugue dans un souci daltrit et de partageĶ ne pas manquer !
 
propos de lartiste Catherine Potter
Catherine Potter est forme au bansuri (flte de bambou indienne) auprs du clbre Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia en Inde. Elle dtient une matrise en ethnomusicologie de lUniversit de Montral et un baccalaurat en jazz de lUniversit Concordia. Plusieurs fois boursire du Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Qubec et du Conseil des Arts du Canada, elle a remport le prix Jon Higgins en 1999. Elle a collabor avec de nombreux artistes ici et en Inde Boubacar Diabat dont la rencontre il y a 20 ans est lune des sources dinspiration de ce projet , Simon Shaheen, Ramasutra, Ganesh Anandan, etc. Avec sa formation Duniya Project, quelle a fonde en 2002, elle connat le succs en Amrique, en Europe et en Inde. Elle a deux albums son actif et prpare actuellement le troisime.
 
On peut se procurer les billets du spectacle La Convergence des Continents la billetterie du MAI, situe au 3680, rue Jeanne-Mance, par tlphone (514) 982-3386 ou via Internet http://ticket.boxxo.info/.
 
www.catherinepotter.net            www.jocool.com
        
                                                                                           
(activit gratuite) : Discussion avec les artistes vendredi soir aprs le spectacle.
 
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La Convergence des Continents
Guests: Zal Idrissa Sissokho, VJ Liberty and VJ jocool
Friday and Saturday, January 22 and 23, 2010 at 8 pm
 
Catherine Potter Duniya Project: Catherine Potter: bansuri, composer, director / Subir Dev: tabla / Thom Gossage: drums, kalimba / Jean-Marc Hbert: guitar / Nicolas Caloia: double bass / Guests: Zal Idrissa Sissokho: kora / Martine Koutnouyan aka VJ Liberty / Joseph Lefvre aka VJ jocool.
 
Montral, January 7, 2010 Bansuri virtuoso and composer Catherine Potter and her group Duniya Project, along with a host of outstanding guest musicians, touch down at the MAI (Montral, arts interculturels) to present the World Premiere of their latest creation, La Convergence des Continents, for two nights only on Friday and Saturday, January 22 and 23 at 8 pm. This concert is produced by Productions Shadaj.
 
In La Convergence des Continents, world music ensemble Catherine Potter - Duniya Project, who weave a sound that is both unbounded and decidedly contemporary, are joined by esteemed guest artists to offer up a performance at the crossroads of various musical cultures. The five Duniya Project musicians continue their musical exploration with a groundbreaking project and a new direction where classical North Indian music, Western African Mandinka music, jazz, and improvisation converge. They are joined by the lush stylings of renowned Senegalese-born Montrealer Zal Idrissa Sissokho on the kora - essentially a 21-string African harp - as well as two reputed Montreal VJs, Liberty and jocool, who will deliver a live visual performance.
 
Built on an original musical vocabulary that is both traditional and modern, the innovative and complex sonic interplay created by Catherine Potter and her collaborators highlights all the beauty of Indian ragas as they are layered and woven into the harmonic splendour of African Mandinka kora, as well as Indian and African grooves. These original compositions come alive under the colours, shadow play, and interactive elements created by the video artists, who add another layer of vigour and intensity to this multidisciplinary experience. All in all, it is a performance that will take you to a place where varying approaches come together with an eye toward sharing and otherness... not to be missed!
 
About Catherine Potter
Catherine Potter is a trained bansuri player (a bamboo Indian flute), an instrument she studied in India under the renowned Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. She holds a master's degree in ethnomusicology from the Universit de Montral as well as a bachelor's in jazz studies from Concordia University. She has received several grants from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Qubec and the Canada Council for the Arts, and won the Jon Higgins Award in 1999. She has collaborated with a number of musicians here and in India: Boubacar Diabat, whose meeting 20 years ago is, in part, the inspiration for this project, Simon Shaheen, Ramasutra, and Ganesh Anandan, among others. Her group Duniya Project, which she founded in 2002, has garnered acclaim in the Americas, Europe, and India. She has already released two albums and is currently working on a third.
 
Tickets for the show La Convergence des Continents can be purchase at the MAI Box Office, located at 3680, Jeanne-Mance St., by phone (514) 982-3386, or online at http://ticket.boxxo.info/.
 
www.catherinepotter.net            www.jocool.com
        
    (free activity) : Conference / artist's talk, Friday following the performance.

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Les nouveauts pour 2010 - Illustration Qubec

Montral, le 5 janvier 2010, Illustration Qubec lassociation des illustrateurs du Qubec est fire dannoncer sa participation au Salon du Livre de Taipei (Taiwan).

Cest sur linvitation de la fondation du salon quelle prsentera une quarantaine des meilleures illustrations jeunesse du 27 janvier au 1er fvrier 2010. Parmi celles-ci vous trouverez des illustrations issues de livres primes comme Chre Traudi (Anne Villeneuve aux ditions Les 400 Coups) ou encore Harvey (Janice Nadeau aux ditions La Pastque).

Nous sommes convaincus que le langage visuel participe au plaisir de la lecture et au dveloppement de la connaissance et de la comprhension du monde. Les talents qubcois en illustration sont fiers dembellir, dencourager et de stimuler, jour aprs jour, lexprience littraire. Si une image vaut mille mots, les deux runis ouvrent des portes des univers riches et des inspirations fructueuses. Nous sommes donc trs reconnaissants de linvitation de la fondation du Salon du livre de Taipei. Nous vous accueillerions avec plaisir au stand 110!

Lassociation via ces deux reprsentants profitera de son passage pour prsenter une confrence sur les tendances de lillustration qubcoise le jeudi 28 janvier. Il sagira dune occasion unique pour rencontrer et converser avec les artistes locaux ainsi quavec des diteurs provenant de tous horizons.

Gageons que cette premire incursion linternationale pour lassociation ne sera pas la dernire.

Le Salon du livre de Taipei - http://www.tibe.org.tw/2010/

De part sa taille, il est lun des salons les plus importants dAsie. Il est la porte dentre vers les marchs chinois, coren et japonais. chaque anne, il accueille plus de 500 000 visiteurs, soit 5 fois plus que le Salon de Montral. Cest plus de 500 diteurs provenant de 41 pays diffrents qui seront prsents lors de cette 17ime dition. La France sera dailleurs le pays mis lhonneur.

Illustration Qubec lassociation des illustrateurs du Qubec.

Cre en 1983, lorganisme regroupe et soutient les illustrateurs, promeut et diffuse lillustration qubcoise. Avec plus de 300 membres actifs, lassociation est le plus grand regroupement dillustrateurs au Canada. Fin 2009, elle dcide de changer son nom Association des illustrateurs et illustratrices du Qubec (AIIQ) pour Illustration Qubec. Cette volont de modernit rpond ses valeurs et ses activits qui se veulent de plus en plus internationale. Cest pourquoi, en 2010, elle retournera pour une seconde fois Toronto pour prsenter les illustrateurs qubcois aux professionnels torontois. Elle rcidivera en relanant son fameux rpertoire avec une distribution largie. Finalement, son site Internet sera compltement revamper dans le but dattirer toujours plus de
professionnels en qute de talents.

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PORTopera Receives $10,000 Grant from National Endowment for the Arts

January 7, 2010


PORTLAND, Maine The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded PORTopera a $10,000 Access to Artistic Excellence grant to support its production of Engelbert Humperdincks Hansel and Gretel July 29 and 31 at Merrill Auditorium.

Israel Gursky will conduct PORToperas mainstage production of Hansel and Gretel directed by long-time Artistic Director and Stage Director Dona D. Vaughn. The production will include a 16-member multinational childrens chorus drawn from Portlands immigrant community who will rehearse and perform with the professional singers and orchestra.

The NEA awards Access to Artistic Excellence grants to support artistic excellence, preserve cultural heritage, and provide access to the arts for all Americans.  It is particularly interested in projects that extend the arts to underserved populations -- those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. NEA made 13 of these grants to organizations in Maine for the 2010 year totaling $260,000.

Performance dates for PORToperas performance of Hansel and Gretel are Thursday, July 29 at 7:30 P.M. and Saturday, July 31 at 2:00 P.M. (matinee). A limited number of seats will be offered to young people 12 and under at 25% off regular prices. To order call PortTix at 207-842-0800 or visit www.porttix.com.

About PORTopera:
PORTopera is Maines only opera company performing fully staged operas with nationally and internationally acclaimed artists. For more information visit www.portopera.org or call (207) 879-7678.

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Posic au MAI: Posie urbaine sur dcor musical / Posic at the MAI: urban poetry merging with sound and music



Un spectacle aux confins de la posie, de la musique et du slam
Vendredi 15 et samedi 16 janvier 2010 20h
(English will follow)
 
Fabrice Koffy : textes, voix, direction artistique / Guillaume Soucy : guitare, direction musicale / et les complices : Mark Haynes : basse / Dany Dauphin-Kirouac : percussion / Siham Naim : violon et churs / et avec la participation exceptionnelle du chorgraphe et interprte Gamaliel Martinez Fonseca sur la pice Folie en 3D.
 
Montral, le 7 janvier 2010 Le MAI (Montral, arts interculturels) entame lanne 2010 de belle faon et vous souhaite la bienvenue dans le monde magique de Fabrice Koffy et son spectacle Posic, un univers riche et sensible dans lequel posie urbaine et musique enivrante se marient merveille. Ce spectacle est prsent deux soirs seulement, les 15 et 16 janvier 20h.
 
Quand la posie investit de nouveaux espaces
Aux confins de la posie, de la musique et du slam, Posic, spectacle tir de lalbum ponyme, prsente une ambiance la fois intime et intense qui fait voyager les spectateurs dans toutes sortes de paysages, entre textes denses et climats sonores inventifs. Issu de la rencontre entre Fabrice Koffy et Guillaume Soucy, compositeur et multi-instrumentiste montralais, Posic nous entrane hors des sentiers battus, sur des pistes o la posie sacoquine avec la musique et frle la mise en scne. Fabrice chante, dclame, incarne ses mots, ses penses et ses souvenirs, tantt lgers, tantt graves, travers quatre thmes majeurs, soit lAfrique, lamour, les tourments et lveil. Sur cette voix de velours, Guillaume pose admirablement les notes du dcor musical et les deux complices sentourent de gnreux musiciens au son jazz. Exceptionnellement, Fabrice prsentera galement la pice, Folie en 3D, cre en mai 2009 avec le danseur dorigine mexicaine Gamaliel Martinez Fonseca, artiste la gestuelle particulire et fascinante qui intgre aussi bien break dance, danses africaines, contemporaine, afro-brsiliennes, etc. Une nouvelle gnration de potes qubcoisĶ
 
propos de Fabrice Koffy
Montralais n Ottawa, originaire de Cte dIvoire o il a vcu, Fabrice se prsente comme un donneur de mots et un chercheur. Pote, il crit depuis ladolescence ; homme de scne, il volue depuis cinq ans avec la formation Kalmunity et se produit rgulirement avec la Ligue qubcoise de Slam (LIQS). Cette anne, il a particip comme invit aux Francofolies et au Festival de Jazz de Montral alors que Posic, son premier album, est sorti en juin. Accompagn par le MAI, il a bnfici dune rsidence pour la cration de ce spectacle.
 
On peut se procurer les billets du spectacle Posic la billetterie du MAI, situe au 3680, rue Jeanne-Mance, par tlphone (514) 982-3386 ou via Internet http://ticket.boxxo.info/.
 
Ce projet a bnfici du soutien financier du ministre de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition fminine du Qubec et de la Ville de Montral dans le cadre de lEntente sur le dveloppement culturel de Montral 2008-2011.
 
 
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A performance at the edge of poetry, music, and slam poetry
Friday and Saturday, January 15 and 16, 2010 at 8 pm
 
Fabrice Koffy: words and lyrics, vocals, artistic director / Guillaume Soucy : guitar, accordion, music director / and their collaborators: Mark Haynes : bass / Dany Dauphin-Kirouac : percussion / Siham Naim : violin and choruses / with the extraordinary participation of choreographer and performer Gamaliel Martinez Fonseca for the piece Folie en 3D.
 
Montreal, January 7, 2010 The MAI (Montral, arts interculturels) rings in the new year in fine fashion as it welcomes you to the magical world of Fabrice Koffy and his performance Posic, a rich and delicate universe where urban poetry and stirring musical sounds merge with revelry. This performance takes the stage for two nights only, January 15 and 16 at 8 pm.
 
When poetry enters new spaces
At the edge of poetry, music, and slam poetry, Posic is based on its namesake album. As Posic creates a mood of intimacy and intensity, the audience is taken on a journey through a wide range of landscapes, among dense lyrical work and inventive soundscapes. The brainchild of Fabrice Koffy and Guillaume Soucy, a Montreal-based composer and multi-instrumentalist, Posic strays from the beaten path as it flirts with music and theatre. Fabrice sings, spouts, embodies his own words, his thoughts and memories, ranging from the severe to the frivolous, through four major themes: Africa, love, torment, and (self-) discovery. As Fabrice's silky voice rides Guillaume's exquisite notes and musical tableaus, the jazzy sounds of their gracious collaborators also make their entrance. Exclusive to this performance, Fabrice's Folie en 3D will also take the stage. This piece, first presented in May 2009, was co-created with Mexican-born dancer Gamaliel Martinez Fonseca, whose unique and fascinating vocabulary marries breakdancing with African, modern, and Afro-Brazilian dance, among others. Behold a new generation of Qubec-based poets...
 
About Fabrice Koffy
Montreal-based and born in Ottawa, his roots are in Ivory Coast. Fabrice is a self-proclaimed "purveyor of words" and is guided by inquiry and discovery. A poet, he began writing as a teenager; as a man of the stage, he has been a member of the Kalmunity Collective for five years, and performs regularly with the Ligue qubcoise de Slam (LIQS). In 2009, he was a guest performer at the Francofolies and Montreal International Jazz Festival. Posic, his first album, was launched in June. A participant in the MAI's mentorship program, he created this performance during his stint as a resident artist.
 
Tickets for the show Posic can be purchase at the MAI Box Office on 3680, Jeanne-Mance St., by phone (514) 982-3386, or online at http://ticket.boxxo.info/.
 
This program is sponsored by the ministre de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition fminine du Qubec
and the Ville de Montral as part of the Entente sur le dveloppement culturel de Montral 2008-2011.
 
 

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Harbourfront Centres HATCH: emerging performance projects 2010 Season Opens with the First of Five Residencies

TORONTO, ON (Jan. 7, 2010) Harbourfront Centre is thrilled to launch the seventh season of HATCH: emerging performance projects with an imaginative and bold new performance by one of Torontos most original artists. Everything Ive Got is Jess Dobkins latest performance art work in progress a raw and poignant examination of creativity and temporality where the artist offers up the entirety of her collection of artistic ideas. With a distinctive visual language and cunning sex politics, Dobkin scrutinizes her art practice as she candidly confronts her own mortality.

Dobkin weaves an intimate autobiographic narrative through language, gesture and technology in a multidisciplinary practice that intersects performance art, theatre and installation. Using her body as map and material, she presents objects and ideas in surprising and unconventional ways. Whether perched atop a steamer trunk covered in tiny mirrors, positioned upside down with a mannequin head animated between her legs, or covering her naked body in paint, Dobkin becomes a human canvas, blurring the lines between performer and performance, between an idea and its staging. She is not out to shock or alienate her audience, but is instead inspired by the possibility of intimate engagement. Dobkin is driven to connect and communicate with an audience through the performance of her own vulnerability.

HATCH is providing me the opportunity to take even more risks in my work, said Dobkin. With an outstanding team of artistic collaborators and creative use of technology, I am taking my practice to whole new level. My work has always been about taking risks and pushing boundaries, but this project goes so much further.

Harbourfront Centre is pleased to present Everything Ive Got, by Jess Dobkin in the Studio Theatre on Jan. 31, 4 p.m. Tickets are $12 or $10 for students, seniors and arts workers and are available by phone at 416-973-4000 or through www.harbourfrontcentre.com/hatch. The performance will be followed by an artist Q & A and reception.

Everything Ive Got was first workshopped at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre in Toronto and again at Dixon Place in New York City. With support from Harbourfront Centres HATCH residency program and the Canada Council, the project has advanced to a longer format production with an accomplished team of creative collaborators, including Stephen Lawson of 2boys.tv, Sherri Hay, Richard Feren and Laird MacDonald. The HATCH presentation offers a special opportunity to experience the work in development and participate in a Q & A that includes the collaborative team.

Jess Dobkins performances, artists talks and workshops are presented at museums, galleries, theatres and universities around the world. Her work has toured internationally, and she has performed, lectured and conducted performance art workshops in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Belgium, and the U.K. Her Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar received international audience and media acclaim and was named in the Top 10 Performances of 2006 by NOW Magazine. She was named Best Performance Artist by both NOW Magazine and Xtra Magazine. She teaches Performance Art at the Ontario College of Art & Design and serves on the University of Toronto/Sheridan College Art and Art History Program Advisory Committee.

Everything Ive Got will next be presented at the Rhubarb Festival in February 2010 and at the Edgy Women Festival in Montreal in March 2010. For more information about Jess Dobkin, visit www.jessdobkin.com

Everything Ive Got
A Performance by Jess Dobkin

Created in collaboration with Stephen Lawson, Director; Laura Baxter, Production Manager; Sherri Hay, Production Designer; Richard Feren, Composition and Sound Designer; and Laird MacDonald, Lighting Designer.

About HATCH: emerging performance projects at Harbourfront Centre
Entering its seventh year, the HATCH residency and mentorship programme is a key initiative in Harbourfront Centres mission to develop local artists and their unique practices.

The HATCH mentorship provides resources and professional assistance to a new generation of engaging and innovative contemporary artists to reach their next career stage with a comprehensive understanding of process and challenges that artists must embrace.

The HATCH residency package includes one week rent-free in the Studio Theatre, technical and production assistance, box office backing and administrative assistance, marketing and media relations support and workshops, and professional development assistance.

For more information please visit www.harbourfrontcentre.com/hatch

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Lagenda dhiver 2010 du MAC

Montral, le 7 janvier 2009. La rentre dhiver du Muse dart contemporain de Montral commence ds le 13 janvier avec la prsentation, en premire mondiale, du film Mamori de Karl Lemieux dans le cadre de la srie Projections. Suivra, le 4 fvrier, le lancement des expositions des artistes canadiens Marcel Dzama, Luanne Martineau et du peintre montralais Etienne Zack. Ce sera une double clbration puisque, cette occasion, le Muse prsentera Marie Fraser, nouvelle conservatrice en chef du Muse ainsi que son quipe de la conservation. Se poursuivent galement les expositions de la Collection permanente lances en novembre. Les Vendredis Nocturnes reprendront le 5 fvrier avec Land of Talk, alors que la Nuit blanche aura lieu cette anne dans la nuit du 27 au 28 fvrier.  
EXPOSITIONS

Marcel Dzama Aux mille tours
Du 4 fvrier au 25 avril 2010


Si Toronto et Vancouver ont t les foyers artistiques les plus dynamiques au Canada au cours des annes 1980 et 1990, Winnipeg a pris le relais dans les annes 2000 grce limpulsion de lartiste Marcel Dzama. Inclassable, dconcertant, lartiste sest fait rapidement remarquer sur la scne internationale par une dmarche empreinte la fois de rigueur et de sduction. Une soixantaine duvres seront prsentes travers ses dioramas, vidos, sculptures, tableaux-collages et dessins. On y retrouvera ses thmes de prdilection : la nostalgie, les dbuts du modernisme, les rapports entre ironie et cynisme, politique et subjectivit. Aux mille tours est la plus grande exposition individuelle jamais consacre cet artiste par un muse. Depuis 2004, Dzama vit et travaille New York.

Luanne Martineau
Du 4 fvrier au 25 avril 2010

Originaire de Saskatoon, Luanne Martineau sest fait connatre par ses sculptures hybrides de feutre et de laine presque impossible dcrire. Elles proposent une exprience oscillant entre fascination et rpulsion, microscopique et macroscopique. Lexposition donnera loccasion aux visiteurs dexplorer cet univers tonnant en une douzaine duvres rcentes regroupant des sculptures, un livre dartiste, des dessins et des  drulptures , soit la contraction des mots  drawing  et sculpture.

Etienne Zack
Du 4 fvrier au 25 avril 2010

Il tait de la Triennale qubcoise. Dans son travail, Etienne Zack prend pour sujet le contexte de production et dexposition des uvres ainsi que lensemble des outils physiques et conceptuels qui prsident leur laboration : atelier, galerie, matriaux du peintre. Cette fois le Muse lui consacre une exposition individuelle rassemblant une vingtaine de peintures ralises au cours des six dernires annes, dont deux uvres cres pour loccasion.

Dons majeurs
Jusquau 5 avril 2010

Dans la seule anne 2009, le Muse a rcolt prs de 4 800 000 $ en dons duvres, un record jamais atteint depuis sa cration, grce la gnrosit exceptionnelle dartistes, de galeristes, de collectionneurs et de mcnes. Une partie de ces uvres et dautres acquises au cours des trois dernires annes font partie de lexposition Dons majeurs. Lexposition prsente des uvres de David Altmejd, Yves Gaucher, Anselm Kiefer, Rober Racine, Francine Savard et Lorna Simpson.

Cubes, blocs et autres espaces
Jusquau 5 avril 2010

Lexposition Cubes, blocs et autres espaces propose une lecture des cadres urbanistique, architectural et mdiatique qui rgissent la vie moderne. Cette exposition pose un triple questionnement : Quelles sont les forces qui nous gouvernent? Comment les a-t-on dj affrontes? Et comment les subissons-nous aujourdhui? Lexposition comprend des uvres de Josef Albers, Alice Aycock, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Ian Carr-Harris, Paterson Ewen, Fischli & Weiss, Gilbert & George, Peter Gnass, Joan Jonas, Kurt Kranz, Guillermo Kuitca, Suzy Lake, Sherrie Levine, El Lissitzky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Alex Morrison, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Gunter Nolte, Anders Oinonen, Nam June Paik, Giulio Paolini, Mary Pratt, Richard Prince, Keith Sonnier, Haim Steinbach, Lotte Stam-Beese, Paul Strand, Franoise Sullivan, Serge Tousignant, Ian Wallace, Weegee, Gordon Webber, Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky, et Bill Woodrow.

SRIE PROJECTIONS

Karl Lemieux
Mamori
Du 13 janvier au 14 mars 2010

Dans le cadre de la srie Projections, le Muse dart contemporain de Montral, en collaboration avec lOffice national du film du Canada (ONF), sont fiers de prsenter en premire mondiale Mamori (2010) 8min/35 mm, un film danimation exprimental ralis par lartiste montralais Karl Lemieux. Au cur de la fort amazonienne, Karl Lemieux a cherch saisir les textures de la vgtation tropicale et ses diverses transformations suivant les phnomnes lumineux. Il en a tir un film danimation exprimental, n de la rencontre de deux formes : labstraction sonore de la musique originale du compositeur espagnol Francisco Lpez et labstraction visuelle des images quil a retravailles en studio.


Vendredis Nocturnes
Les Vendredis Nocturnes font relche en janvier mais reprendront le 5 fvrier avec Land of Talk. Aussi, le 5 mars, We Are Wolves; le 2 avril, Trio Torngat. Nocturnes : tous les premiers vendredis soir du mois, accs aux salles dexposition ; musique live ; service de  bar. Entre au tarif gnral ou avec la carte Branch 15 $.
Nuit blanche

Dans la nuit du 27 au 28 fvrier, la Nuit blanche au MAC, dans le cadre du Festival Montral en lumire, sera sous le thme de la blancheur. Dans le hall dentre les voiles du projet Capture saisiront au vol des images et une musique lectronique pop gnres par ordinateur grce au mot-cl blanc. Les ateliers de cration, pour tous et en famille, proposeront la cration dicebergs gants et, dans les salles dexposition, les chauves-souris albinos de Marcel Dzama attendront les visiteurs. De 18 h 5 h du matin. Gratuit.

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Kirill Gerstein Named 2010 Gilmore Artist


Kalamazoo, Michigan, January 7, 2010 - Russian-born pianist Kirill Gerstein has been named the recipient of the 2010 Gilmore Artist Award, it was announced today by Daniel R. Gustin, Director of the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival. One of the most prestigious honors for pianists, the Gilmore Artist Award is presented every four years on a non-competitive basis to an exceptional pianist who, regardless of age or nationality, has the potential to sustain a career as a major international concert artist.  Mr. Gerstein will receive $300,000 in support of his musical and career goals over the next four years.  Previous recipients of the Gilmore Artist Award are Ingrid Fliter (2006), Piotr Anderszewski (2002), Leif Ove Andsnes (1998), Ralf Gothni (1994), and David Owen Norris (1991).  
"Over the past ten years we have observed Kirill Gerstein develop into one of the most compelling and profound musical artists of his generation," said Dan Gustin. "He is the epitome of what we seek in the Gilmore Artist - a musical thinker and performer who will continue growing and who can, and we believe will, attain a career as a major concert pianist for the 21st Century."
Mr. Gerstein has been praised for his masterful technique, musical curiosity, and probing interpretations. From early piano lessons at a special school in Russia, to studies in jazz at Berklee College of Music in Boston, to performing at the classical music world's most prestigious venues, Mr. Gerstein is "on the fast track to a major career, and he deserves to be," noted The Boston Globe.  He won first prize at the 2001 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv and was chosen as Carnegie Hall's "Rising Star" for the 2005-06 season.  Mr. Gerstein is the first Gilmore Artist to have received the Gilmore Young Artist Award, which he was awarded in 2002.
"I am extremely honored and humbled to have been chosen as the 2010 Gilmore Artist," said Kirill Gerstein. "It feels very gratifying and flattering to have my work recognized and supported by such a distinguished panel of experts in the classical music world. I'm quite overwhelmed by the myriad of projects that this award could make possible, and I'm looking forward to working with Dan Gustin and his staff at The Gilmore to realize some of my creative dreams.  It's with great appreciation that I accept this incredibly generous award."
            The Gilmore Artist Award is given by the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, established in 1989. Operating under a unique selection process, candidates for the Gilmore Artist Award are nominated confidentially by a large and diverse committee of music professionals. The nominated candidates are then unknowingly evaluated for their pianism and musicianship in various live concert performances by an anonymous six-member Artistic Advisory Committee.  The intention is to evaluate the candidates' work over a sustained period of time, rather than judging their achievement during the course of a highly concentrated and competitive set of conditions.        
            The Gilmore Artist receives a $50,000 cash grant to be used at the artist's discretion and $250,000 typically disbursed over a four-year period for projects and activities that will enhance the artist's musicianship and career. 
In addition to Dan Gustin, Director of The Gilmore, the Artistic Advisory Committee for the 2010 Gilmore Artist Award included Matias Tarnopolsky, until recently the Artistic Administrator of the New York Philharmonic, and now the Director of Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley; Sherman Van Solkema, Professor of Music and retired chairman of the Music Department, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI; Ann Schein, concert pianist and teacher; Don Michael Randel, President of the Andrew Mellon Foundation; and Curtis Price, until recently the President of the Royal Academy of Music, London, and now Warden, New College, Oxford University, U.K.
The Gilmore also gives Gilmore Young Artist Awards every two years to the most promising of the new generation of American pianists, age 22 and younger.  Ivan Moshchuk and Charlie Albright were named the 2010 Gilmore Young Artists.  Between 1991 and 2010, 26 young pianists received the Gilmore Young Artist Award, including Yuja Wang, Jonathan Biss, Christopher Taylor, Adam Nieman, Orli Shaham, and Wendy Chen, in addition to Mr. Gerstein.
The Gilmore Festival and Awards are the legacy of Irving S. Gilmore, a Kalamazoo businessman and philanthropist, whose special devotion to keyboard music and its musicians inspired the creation of the biennial Gilmore International Keyboard Festival and the Gilmore Artist and Young Artist Awards.  Mr. Gerstein, along with former Gilmore Artists Ingrid Fliter, Piotr Anderszewski and David Owen Norris will appear at this year's Gilmore International Keyboard Festival taking place April 17 to May 8, 2010 throughout West Michigan. More information can be found at www.gilmorekeyboardfestival.org.
Born in Voronezh, in southwestern Russia, thirty-year-old Kirill Gerstein studied piano at a special music school for gifted children and taught himself to play jazz. He came to the U.S. at 14 to continue his studies in jazz piano at Boston's Berklee College of Music while continuing to study the classical piano repertoire. Following two summers at the Boston University Young Artist program at Tanglewood, Mr. Gerstein moved to New York City to study with Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music where he earned both his Bachelors and Masters of Music degrees by the age of 20, then continued his studies in Madrid with Dmitri Bashkirov and in Budapest with Ferenc Rados. Now an American citizen, Mr. Gerstein divides his time between the United States and Germany, where he has been a professor of piano at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart since 2006.
Mr. Gerstein has performed with esteemed orchestras and conductors, and in recital throughout the world. He has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Baltimore, Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, and San Francisco Symphonies. He has also performed with the Munich, Rotterdam and Royal Philharmonics, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Staatskapelle Dresden, the Finnish and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestras, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester Zrich and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, among others. He has given recitals in Boston, Cincinnati, Detroit, Hamburg, New York, Paris, Prague, Vancouver, at Washington's Kennedy Center, the Liszt Academy in Budapest, and at London's Wigmore and Queen Elizabeth Halls.
At summer festivals Mr. Gerstein has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Mann Music Center and at the Saratoga Festival and the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Music Festival. He made his Salzburg Festival debut playing solo and two-piano works with Andrs Schiff in 2008.  In 2009 he performed at the Verbier, Aix-en-Provence, and Lucerne Festivals, and returned to Caracas to work with Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolvar Youth Orchestra.
 In addition to his recital and concerto appearances at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in May 2010, highlights of his upcoming North American engagements include debuts with the Atlanta, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis symphonies, and the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall, and return performances with the Baltimore, Houston and San Francisco symphonies. In January 2010 Mr. Gerstein will tour with cellist Steven Isserlis, with performances at the Kennedy Center and in San Francisco. He will also make his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in summer of 2010. Internationally he will perform with the London Philharmonia, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Spain, Stockholm Philharmonic and WDR Symphony in Cologne.

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Cleveland Orchestra musicians union negotiations stalled






CLEVELAND, January 6, 2010 - The negotiations between The Cleveland Orchestra and the union representing its musician employees (Local 4 of the American Federation of Musicians) ended today without a settlement, and no future meetings are scheduled.  The Orchestras musicians had been working under a month-to-month contract extension since September.  Last month, the union formally terminated the extension agreement, and has now indicated that the musicians could strike as early as January 18.  

Management is seeking short-term concessions in the negotiations.  The union has been offered a three-year contract in which the base scale portion of their compensation would be reduced by 5% in the first year, with a restoration in the second year, and a 2.5% increase in the third year.  The unions proposal is for an eight-month contract at their current levels of compensation and benefits.

In 2009, the average compensation for a member of The Cleveland Orchestra was $152,000 in wages, seniority, overtime, media rights, and other payments.  Median compensation was $140,200.  The proposal made today would reduce the median compensation to $134,100 in the first year.  Benefits include 10 weeks paid vacation and 26 weeks paid sick leave.  The official work week is 20 hours.  Among the cities with the top ten orchestras, Cleveland has the lowest cost of living.

To address the current recession, The Cleveland Orchestra was the first major Cleveland arts institution to launch across-the-board cost reductions.  Establishing a principle of shared sacrifice, Music Director Franz Welser-Mst and Executive Director Gary Hanson volunteered reductions in compensation of 20% and 15% respectively, followed by reductions of up to 10% for all other employees.

Cleveland Orchestra Executive Director Gary Hanson stated, We need the union to recognize the shared sacrifice throughout the institution and respond in kind.
 
In 2009, Trustees increased their donations over the previous year by 8%, while guest artists, suppliers, and professional service providers also voluntarily reduced their fees.  The budget for the current fiscal year 2009-10 has been reduced to $42.3 million, including annual cost-cutting of more than $2 million overall.

Cleveland Orchestra ticket sales and other locally earned revenues fell by 5% in the 2008-09 fiscal year to $11.9 million from $12.5 million in the previous year.  Corporate and foundation contributions to the Orchestra declined by more than 20% from $4.9 million to $3.8 million.  In 2009, the Orchestras endowment investments fell to their lowest value in more than a decade, to $97.2 million from $124.4 million the previous year. The unfunded liability in the institutions defined-benefit pension plan increased to $18.6 million, up from $4.3 million the previous year.  

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Monday, January 11, 2010

Les Impatients ont le grand plaisir de vous inviter au lancement du 6e tome du coffret

Mille mots damour
le mardi 19 janvier 2010 ds 17h30
la salle du Lion dOr situe au 1676, rue Ontario

Cette dition comprend entre autres des lettres de Ginette Reno, Alexandre Despatie, Yvon Deschamps, Claudine Mercier, Jennifer Heil, Jacques Attali, Florence K et un indit de Marcel Pagnol.

Mille mots damour est compos de lettres offertes par des crivains, des artistes, des mdecins, des Impatients, des journalistes, des athltes et des gens du grand public.


Joignez-vous aux Impatients et Clmence Desrochers pour cette belle soire!

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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Announces Contract Extension for Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles


 

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Board Chair Ben Johnson announced today that the contract for Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles will be extended for one year, through the 2011-12 season.  Following the end of his contract, Mr. Runnicles will continue to appear as a guest conductor with the Orchestra for two weeks annually he currently appears four weeks each season.

The excitement and fulfillment of working with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra deepens for me each year, said Mr. Runnicles. I have such confidence in both this Orchestra and Roberts leadership, and look forward to continuing our musical partnership.

Music Director Robert Spano and Mr. Runnicles, whose tenures with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra began in the 2001-02 season, are currently in their ninth season with the Orchestra.  At the end of Mr. Runnicless contract, they will have shared more than a decade of shaping the Orchestras musical direction. 

Robert Spano and Donald Runnicles have formed a superb artistic team with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra over nearly ten years, said Mr. Johnson.  The Orchestra has never sounded better and the team has grown together in stature and reputation.  Robert and Donald have created a bond with not only the musicians, but with the people of Atlanta, and it was the shared desire of the entire organization to keep the team in place.  We are delighted that Donald will continue on the team, and we look forward to our continued journey together.

It is my greatest joy to work with this Orchestra and I can think of no better artistic partner and friend to share in this journey than Donald, said Mr. Spano.  I am so happy to have him here, and I look forward to all that lies before us. 

Robert and Donald have, for nearly a decade, helped shape musical perspective and programming within this Orchestra and throughout the country, said Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Interim CEO  Donald F. Fox.  The ASO has, for years now, been a hub of creativity through performances, presentations, and learning forums, all inspired by the work of our artistic team.  We are so honored to have Donald here through the 2011-12 season, and look forward to all he and Robert will continue to create.

I am so proud to have led the search that brought Robert and Donald to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 2001, said Woodruff Arts Center President and CEO Joe Bankoff.  To have watched the Creative Partnership grow this Orchestra as a whole has been tremendous.  Keeping this artistic team in place for another couple of years thrills all of us here at the Arts Center, and we look forward to continued innovative and exciting music-making from this great Orchestra.
  
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PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR DONALD RUNNICLES is now in his ninth year with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. This season Mr. Runnicles took up two new top artistic posts in Europe General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.  For 17 years, he was the Music Director and Principal Conductor of the San Francisco Opera, where he conducted more than 60 productions in over 350 performances. Mr. Runnicles is also Music Director of the Grand Teton Summer Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Last month Mr. Runnicles brought the ASO Chorus back to the Berlin Philharmonic, for their third visit with him, this time for lavishly-praised performances of Brahmss A German Requiem.   He has also brought the ASO Chamber Chorus to Carnegie Hall for a performance of Mozarts Requiem with the Orchestra of St. Lukes. 

Mr. Runnicless recordings with the Atlanta Symphony include a critically acclaimed concert disc with soprano Christine Brewer singing Strauss and Wagner; Mozarts Requiem; Orffs Carmina Burana; and Beethovens Ninth Symphony, among others, all on Telarc (with whom the Atlanta Symphony has had a 30-year recording relationship). During that time, the Orchestra has recorded more than 100 albums, and its recordings have won 26 Grammy Awards.  Also in Mr. Runnicless discography are a highly praised live recording of Wagners Tristan und Isolde released in 2007 by Warner Classics, with Christine Brewer and John Treleaven; Britten Billy Budd with Bo Skovhus, Neil Shicoff and the Vienna State Opera; a Grammy-nominated recital of German Romantic opera arias with tenor Ben Heppner; Ring excerpts with the Dresden Staatskapelle; Humperdinck Hnsel und Gretel; Bellini I Capuleti e i Montecchi; and a disc with soprano Jane Eaglen of works by Strauss, Wagner and Berg.

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Robbins Lighter Classics: Martin Riseley displays technical acuity in energetic showpieces for violin

January 6th, 2010

Violinissimo!
Thursday, January 14th 8:00 pm

Edmonton, AB Ķ The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) continues its Robbins Lighter Classics series in 2010 with all things violinistic.  In a concert featuring a dazzling array of his favourite party pieces, ESO Concertmaster Martin Riseley returns to the Francis Winspear Centre for Music as guest soloist in Violinissimo!  William Eddins and Resident Conductor Lucas Waldin will direct the orchestra through virtuoso showpieces for the violin.

From the lyricism of a quiet Gershwin song written for the musical Girl Crazy, to the dashing display of a playful Tchaikovsky waltz, Martin Riseleys technical artistry has the opportunity to shine in a wide spectrum of deftly orchestrated pieces.  Saint-Sans Havanaise for Violin explodes with a fiery Latin passion, the Oriental ambience of Kreislers Tambourin Chinois will fill the hall with a warm Viennese air, and the final movement of Khachaturians Violin Concerto in D minor offers a grandly assertive and energetic vibrancy. 

Ticket prices range from $20 $69 (agency fees apply) and are available through the Winspear Centre Box Office.  Until January 8, tickets can be purchased for a special price of $29 (agency fees apply) all seating areas, online only, at www.edmontonsymphony.com.

The next performance of the Robbins Lighter Classics series takes place on February 25th, 2010.  The ESO salutes Vancouver and celebrates the grace, beauty, power, and thrill of athletic excellence in A Tribute to the Games.

Thank you to our series sponsor Bill and Mary Jo Robbins, our series media sponsor Global Television, and our season media sponsor the Edmonton Journal.

Sponsorship inquiries can be directed to Marc Carnes, Director of Development, at (780) 401-2518.

The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, marking its 58th season in 2009-2010, has taken its place as one of Canada's foremost orchestral ensemble.  Its current roster includes 56 musicians from Canada and around the world, performing a wide-ranging repertoire from the great classical masterworks to pops and children's concerts. The presence of the orchestra and its enrichment of the community's quality of life are key elements in the stature and profile of Edmonton on the national and international scene.

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Inscrivez-vous au Conservatoire de musique et dart dramatique du Qubec




Date limite : le 1er mars 2010

Qubec, le 6 janvier 2010 Le Conservatoire de musique et dart dramatique du Qubec reoit les demandes dadmission pour l'anne scolaire 2010-2011, jusquau 1er mars 2010. Le Conservatoire est une institution nationale qui sert une grande partie du territoire qubcois. Nos sept tablissements en musique au sein desquels nous offrons une formation en interprtation, dont les programmes de baccalaurat et de matrise, pour une vingtaine dinstruments ainsi quune formation en chant, en direction dorchestre, en criture musicale et en composition, sont rpartis Gatineau, Montral, Qubec, Rimouski, Saguenay, Trois-Rivires et Val-dOr. En art dramatique, nos tablissements de Montral et de Qubec offrent une formation en jeu, en scnographie et en mise en scne et cration.

Comment sinscrire
Si vous possdez une formation musicale, des aptitudes pour la pratique dun instrument et de trs bonnes facults auditives ou si vous tes passionn par lart dramatique et titulaire dun diplme dtudes collgiales, nhsitez pas complter une demande dadmission au Conservatoire. Il suffit de remplir le formulaire de demande dadmission disponible auprs du Conservatoire ou dans le site Web www.conservatoire.gouv.qc.ca, y joindre les documents exigs et faire parvenir le tout au secrtariat de ltablissement que vous dsirez frquenter. Notre site Web vous renseigne galement sur chacun de nos tablissements, le processus dadmission, la prparation des auditions, les professeurs et le rgime pdagogique.

Une institution incontournable et un centre de rayonnement
Avec beaucoup de professionnalisme et la plus grande rigueur, le Conservatoire forme des jeunes qui vivent prs des forts de lAbitibi ou de la mer de Rimouski, au bord de la rivire des Outaouais ou prs du fjord du Saguenay, en pleine Mauricie, dans la capitale ou dans la mtropole. Partout, ils apprennent leur mtier, travaillent leur texte ou leur instrument et nourrissent leur sensibilit. Chaque anne, dans nos murs, plus de 800 lves tudient pour devenir des actrices et des acteurs, des metteur(e)s en scne, des instrumentistes, des chefs, des compositeur(e)s, des chanteuses et des chanteurs accomplis, qui rayonneront sur les scnes nationale et internationale. Tout rcemment, plusieurs de nos lves en musique et en art dramatique se sont distingus. Parmi eux, on retrouve :

Valrie Blanger, soprano et Catherine Hughes, lve en Jeu du Conservatoire dart dramatique de Qubec, qui ont remport des bourses de 10 000 $ de la Fondation Hnatyshyn;
Marie-ve Poupart, violoniste, qui a reu le prestigieux Prix dEurope 2009;
Hubert Tanguay-Labrosse, clarinettiste, qui a mrit le Grand Prix du 69e concours OSM Standard Life;
Emmanuel Bernier, organiste, qui a remport la finale nationale du Concours de musique du Canada;
Pascale Robineau-Charrette, hautboste, qui a reu la bourse dexcellence du millnaire; et on pourrait en nommer plusieurs autres.

Une approche pdagogique exceptionnelle
Dhier aujourdhui, la qualit et la renomme des interprtes et des crateurs forms au Conservatoire tmoignent dune approche pdagogique exceptionnelle. Nos lves bnficient dun enseignement de haut niveau qui valorise le rapport individuel avec le matre, la transmission des savoirs vivants, lexprience concrte de la scne et le respect du parcours de chacun. cela sajoutent la disponibilit de lieux inspirants et la prsence de professeurs de grande renomme. Nos professeurs sont la fois des enseignants et des artistes qui font carrire sur scne et qui sillustrent. cet effet, le 2 dcembre dernier, la Fondation mile-Nelligan remettait le Prix Serge-Garant 2009, dcern pour lensemble de luvre dun compositeur, Yves Daoust, un pionnier de la musique lectroacoustique au Canada, qui enseigne au Conservatoire de musique de Montral depuis 1980. Aussi, Marie-Jose Bastien, enseignante au Conservatoire dart dramatique de Qubec, a reu le Prix de la meilleure mise en scne pour la pice Richard Trois daprs William Shakespeare, prsente au Thtre de la Borde. Quant Derren Lowe, violoniste, membre de lOrchestre symphonique de Qubec et professeur au Consevatoire de musique de Qubec, il a dcroch deux Prix dexcellence des arts et de la culture.

De nouvelles installations montralaises
Aujourdhui plus que jamais, le Conservatoire se dploie. Montral, les nouvelles installations permanentes du Conservatoire dart dramatique et du Conservatoire de musique ont t inaugures le 14 septembre 2009. Ces nouveaux lieux de travail, de cration et de diffusion pour nos lves constituent galement un vritable centre dart et de culture pour toute la population montralaise. Conus et adapts spcifiquement pour lenseignement de la musique et de lart dramatique, nos lves voluent dans des studios insonoriss et des salles de cours spacieuses, profitent dune bibliothque bien documente, dune salle multimdia hautement performante, dun atelier lyrique, dune salle de rcital de 100 places, dune salle de concert de 225 places, dun atelier de costumes et de dcors, de studios de doublage, de radio, de tlvision et de cinma.

Des Portes ouvertes
Afin de faire dcouvrir leur cole, plusieurs tablissements du Conservatoire ouvrent leurs portes au public dans les prochaines semaines :
Conservatoire dart dramatique de Montral, sance dinformation sur les auditions le 23 janvier;
Conservatoire de musique de Val-dOr, le 23 janvier;
Conservatoire de musique de Trois-Rivires, le 31 janvier;
Conservatoire de musique de Saguenay, le 12 fvrier;
Conservatoire de musique de Rimouski, Festival de musique du 19 au 21 fvrier.

Prenez votre envol
Aspirez une grande carrire artistique et inscrivez-vous au Conservatoire : www.conservatoire.gouv.qc.ca

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Opera McGill prsente The Rake's Progress par Igor Stravinsky

Montral, le 6 janvier 2010 Opra McGill et lOrchestre symphonique de McGill sous la direction de Julian Wachner prsentent The Rakes Progress dIgor Stravinsky les 27 et 29 et 30 janvier 19h30 la Salle Pollack. David Lefkowich sera metteur en scene invit. La production sera surtitre en franais et en anglais. Les billets sont 27$ et 22$ (tudiants et ans) et sont disponibles au guichet de la salle Pollack, du lundi au vendredi entre midi et 18h ainsi quune heure avant les reprsentations, ou par le rseau Admission (514-790-1245 or 1-800-361-4595, www.admission.com).

Opra en trois actes partir dun livret de W.H. Auden et Chester Kallman daprs la srie de gravures The Rakes Progress de William Hogarth (Londres, 1697-1764), loeuvre a t cre lors de la 14e Biennale de Venise en 1951. En forme dun conte de fe, lopra fait rfrence aux mythes dAdonis, Vnus et Orphe, la lgende de Faust ainsi qu la tradition de Don Juan.

N New York, David Lefkowich a tudi la Northwestern University, avant de se perfectionner lcole internationale de thtre Jacques Lecoq Paris. Il est aujourdhui un metteur en scne et un chorgraphe de combat accompli. Il a notamment travaill au Metropolitan Opera de New York, au New York City Opera, au Florida Grand Opera, au Boston Lyric Opera, au Gotham Chamber Opera, aux Opras de San Francisco, du Minnesota, du Colorado et au Glimmerglass Opera. Il collabore avec de grands metteurs en scne tels que John Copley, Robert Lepage, Julie Taymor et Robert Woodruff. Parmi ses projets rcents, citons sa collaboration avec James Conlon au Ravinia Music Festival pour les mises en scne de Don Giovanni (Mozart) avec le Chicago Symphony Orchestra et LHistoire du Soldat (Stravinsky) avec la Juilliard School. En 2008, il a fait ses dbuts europens avec Le Portrait de Manon (Massenet) au Liceu de Barcelone. Il a galement mis en scne et chorgraphi Romo et Juliette (Gounod) lOpra Tampa et aux Opras du Minnesota et de Virginie ; La Traviata (Verdi) au Lake George Opera et Le Portrait de Manon lOpra de Glimmerglass, et conu les combats de la cration de Appomattox (Philip Glass) lOpra de San Francisco, mais aussi de Miss Lonelyhearts (Liebermann) au Juilliard Opera Center, La Fanciulla del West (Puccini) au New York City Opera et A Clockwork Orange au New York off-Broadway.

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Le Quatuor Molinari poursuit sa 13e saison avec trois importants concerts en cette deuxime moiti de saison

Quatuor Molinari
Quatuor en rsidence au Conservatoire de musique de MOntral

Olga Ranzenhofer, violon
Frdric Bednarz, violon
Frdric Lambert, alto
Pierre-Alain Bouvrette, violoncelle

Montral, le 5 janvier 2010. Le Quatuor Molinari poursuit sa 13e saison avec trois importants concerts en cette deuxime moiti de saison.

Ds le mercredi 27 janvier 2010 20h, le Quatuor  Molinari prsentera un Dialogue la Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur (entre libre) avec comme invits les laurats de son Quatrime Concours international de composition. Discussions ouvertes avec le public, exemples musicaux et prsentation par les compositeurs de leur uvre. Le vendredi 29 janvier, cette fois la salle de concert du Conservatoire de musique de Montral Į4750, avenue Henri-Julien (mtro Mont-Royal) aura lieu le concert des laurats du Quatrime Concours international de composition du Quatuor Molinari. La maison de disque ATMA sera sur place pour enregistrer le concert pour diffusion internationale. Les billets sont en vente la porte le soir du concert.

Le Quatuor Molinari prsentera du 17 au 20 mars 2010, Le Quatuor selon Schnittke, un vnement de quatre jours autour de la musique de chambre dAlfred Schnittke.
Dialogues, confrence de Jean Lesage, table ronde, deux rcitals de musique de chambre et un concert marathon de lintgrale des quatuor dAlfred Schnittke avec en plus le quintette avec piano avec la rpute pianiste Louise Bessette. Toutes les activits auront lieu au Conservatoire de musique de Montral, 4750, avenue Henri-Julien (mtro Mont-Royal).

Pour terminer la saison, le Quatuor Molinari prsentera le 4e quatuor de Paul Hindemith, le 2e quatuor du qubcois Jacques Htu et le premier de Erwin Schulhoff  le samedi 22 mai 2010, 20 h, au Conservatoire de musique de Montral, 4750,  rue Henri-Julien (mtro Mont-Royal). Le Dialogue aura lieu le mercredi 12 mai 2010, 20h, la la Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur.


Le Quatuor Molinari remercie le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qubec, le Conseil des Arts du Canada, le Conseil des Arts de Montral, le Conseil qubcois de la musique, la Ville de Montral, Alfred Dallaire | Memoria, le Conservatoire de musique de Montral et ATMA Classique pour leur gnreux soutien.

Renseignements :

www.quatuormolinari.qc.ca

514-527-5515

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Grammy Award-winner JoAnn Falletta conducts Symphony Nova Scotia

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January 6, 2010
JoAnnFallettaHalifax, NS - Symphony Nova Scotia welcomes guest conductor JoAnn Falletta, one of the finest conductors of her generation (the New York Times), for a rare performance of Schuberts Death and the Maiden at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on Thursday, January 14 at 7:30 pm.

Falletta is a two-time Grammy winner and has been praised worldwide as one of North Americas most elegant, expressive, and engaging conductors. She is currently the music director of both the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Virginia Symphony, and has been awarded no less than 11 honorary doctorates, including one from Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax.

Falletta will be leading Symphony Nova Scotia in an orchestral version of Schuberts beloved string quartet Death and the Maiden, originally based on a German song in which a maiden begs for Death to pass her by. Fallettas recording of this version, arranged by American composer Andy Stein, was recently nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award (Best Producer), and has been praised as utterly convincing both stylistically and emotionally (BBC Magazine).

I think this version of Death and the Maiden is one of the most powerful retellings of music that I have ever heard, says Falletta. Andy Stein really transformed the original string quartet into a new Schubert symphony. It is enormously powerful even rather overwhelming and when people hear it, theyre always swept away by it. It is Schubert, after all, and Death and the Maiden is one of his great masterpieces.

Listen online: clips of this version of Death and the Maiden are available at www.joannfalletta.com/discography.html or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npn3eLB5NoQ.

In addition to performing Death and the Maiden with Symphony Nova Scotia, Falletta will also lead the orchestra in Zoltan Kodalys cheerful Galanta Dances and Henry Vieuxtemps daring and poetic Violin Concerto no. 5 Gretry. Her concertmaster at the Buffalo Philharmonic, Michael Ludwig, will join her as the violin soloist for the Vieuxtemps Concerto.


Get your tickets now! Prices range from $29-49 (HST included), or you can pick up a subscription package and save up to 30%. For tickets and more information, call 494.3820 or visit our website at www.symphonynovascotia.ca.

About JoAnn Falletta
JoAnn Falletta is a multi-Grammy Award winner, a published writer, an inspirational speaker, a relentless champion for women in the arts, and one of the brightest stars of symphonic music in America (the Los Angeles Times). Now in her tenth season as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, she has guest conducted many of the worlds top orchestras, including over 100 orchestras in North America alone.

She is the recipient of many of the most prestigious conducting awards, including the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award, the Stokowski Competition, the Toscanini, Ditson and Bruno Walter Awards, and the American Symphony Orchestra Leagues John S. Edwards Award. An ardent supporter of music of our time, she has introduced over 400 works by American composers, including more than 80 world premieres, and her discography includes more than 50 titles.

About Symphony Nova Scotia
Symphony Nova Scotia is Nova Scotias orchestra. Each year more than 50,000 audience members (including 16,000 young music lovers) join us in communities across Nova Scotia for performances of the music they love from baroque and classical to pop and rock and folk. Under the inspirational leadership of Music Director Bernhard Gueller, Symphony Nova Scotia is recognized as one of the finest orchestras in the country. Visit www.SymphonyNovaScotia.ca to learn more, listen online, or subscribe today!

Symphony Nova Scotia is grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts, Nova Scotia Tourism, Culture, and Heritage, and the Halifax Regional Municipality for their continued support.

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Htu, Ravel, Bruckner (Programme modifi pour le concert de Rivire-des-Prairies)

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Premire Mondiale du Concerto pour deux guitares de Jacques Htu

Montral, mercredi le 6 janvier 2010 Jeudi prochain, le 14 janvier, Rivire-des-Prairies, lOrchestre Mtropolitain prsentera la premire excution mondiale du Concerto pour deux guitares de Jacques Htu.  Ddie lminent guitariste et pdagogue Paul Gerrits qui lavait command, cette uvre sera joue en hommage au compositeur.

Il sagit du sixime programme de la saison de lOrchestre Mtropolitain, prsent dans le cadre de sa tourne en arrondissements. Le concert aura lieu la salle Dsilets du Cgep Marie-Victorin Rivire-des-Prairies.  En plus du Concerto dHtu, ce programme modifi mettra lhonneur lenchantement de Ma mre lOye de Ravel et la complexit de la premire Symphonie de Bruckner.

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) : Ma mre lOye, suite (version orchestrale)
Jacques Htu (1938 - ) : Concerto pour deux guitares (op. 77)
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) : Symphonie n 1 en do mineur


Sous la direction du Maestro Yannick Nzet-Sguin, le Concerto pour deux guitares dHtu sera interprt par le Duo des Concertants, compos de Marc Deschnes et Andr Roy. Puis, la fantaisie et lexotisme seront au rendez-vous avec la suite Ma Mre lOye de Ravel, qui sera joue dans sa version orchestrale. Enfin, mme si la Symphonie n 1 dAnton Bruckner recle une imptuosit romantique qui fait songer Liszt ou Schumann, une personnalit profondment originale saffirme dans ce fascinant voyage des tnbres vers la lumire.


Noubliez pas la confrence prparatoire gratuite une heure avant le concert !


Ce concert spcial sera prsent  :

Rivire-des-Prairies, Cgep Marie-Victorin                
       14 janvier, 20h00                             Billets : 514-872-9814

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En premire mondiale : Mamori de Karl Lemieux prsent par le Muse dart contemporain de Montral en collaboration avec lOffice national du film du Canada

Montral, le 5 janvier 2009 Dans le cadre de la srie Projections, le Muse dart contemporain de Montral, en collaboration avec lOffice national du film du Canada (ONF), sont fiers de prsenter en premire mondiale Mamori (2010), un film danimation exprimental ralis par lartiste Karl Lemieux. Cette uvre originale sera projete en continu la salle Beverly Webster Rolph (BWR) du Muse dart contemporain, du 13 janvier au 14 mars 2010. la fin janvier, Karl Lemieux ira prsenter cette nouvelle cration la prochaine dition du prestigieux Festival international du film de Rotterdam, consacr aux films innovants, indpendants et exprimentaux.

Paulette Gagnon, directrice du Muse, se rjouit de voir Mamori la programmation de la srie Projections : Cette srie permet de dcouvrir les ralisations dartistes de la scne locale et internationale qui investissent et enrichissent lart filmique. Luvre de Lemieux sinscrit admirablement dans cette ligne .

Pour Monique Simard, directrice gnrale du Programme franais de lONF, Mamori est prsent dans un lieu des plus propices la dcouverte de ses qualits artistiques, le Muse dart contemporain de Montral. Fidle sa mission, lONF appuie linnovation dans toutes les pratiques cinmatographiques, dont les uvres exprimentales, et est fier de travailler partout au pays avec des artistes audacieux comme Karl Lemieux.

Mamori

Mamori (2010) a t produit lOffice national du film du Canada par Julie Roy. Vritable laboratoire de cration rendu mythique, notamment par Norman McLaren, les studios danimation de lONF ont accueilli Karl Lemieux pour raliser ce projet issu dune rsidence de cration organise par Francisco Lopez. Compositeur espagnol et chef de file de la musique davant-garde, Lopez reoit au Mamori Art Lab les artistes du son spcialiss dans les field recordings , matriau sonore saisi sur le terrain. Au cur de la fort amazonienne, Karl Lemieux a cherch saisir les textures de la vgtation tropicale et ses diverses transformations suivant les phnomnes lumineux. Il en a tir un film danimation exprimental, n de la rencontre de deux formes : labstraction sonore de la musique originale de Francisco Lopez et labstraction visuelle des images quil a retravailles en studio. Lemieux a en effet film les photos numriques dorigine, photogramme par photogramme, avec une camra 16 mm. Il a fait des essais photochimiques avec des pellicules couleur primes, dont il na retenu que des images en noir et blanc. Un film tout en nuances, qui sarticule travers le rythme des images, du son et du montage.

Karl Lemieux

Cinaste exprimental montralais, Karl Lemieux est originaire de Kingsey-Falls prs de Victoriaville. Il tudie le cinma lUniversit Concordia, et ds son premier court mtrage, Lemieux sintresse au rapport entre limage et le son. Avec Daichi Saito, il fonde le Collectif Double ngatif vou la production et la diffusion du cinma exprimental et il participe rgulirement des concerts et performances de projection et altration en direct de films 16 mm. Dailleurs en 2008, il prend part aux Nocturnes du Muse avec le groupe Pas Chic Chic. Il signe plusieurs courts mtrages, dont The Bridge (1998); KI (2001); Mouvement de lumire/Motion of Light (2004) Western Sunburn (2007); Trash and No Star! (2008) et Passage (2008). Ce dernier film a reu plusieurs prix ici comme ltranger, dont le Grand Prix du Jury/PHI Group.
 

Gnrique Mamori 8 min/35 mm
Ralisation, camra et animation : Karl Lemieux
Enregistrements, composition et conception sonore : Francisco Lpez
Productrice : Julie Roy, Studio animation et jeunesse, ONF
Production : Office national du film du Canada
Prsentation : Muse dart contemporain de Montral
Responsable de la srie Projections : Louise Simard, crations multimdias, MACM
 
Le Muse dart contemporain de Montral est situ au 185, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, mtro Place-des-Arts. Heures douverture : du mardi au dimanche de 11 h 18 h et les mercredis de 11 h 21 h et tous les premiers vendredis soir du mois lors des Nocturnes jusqu 21 h. Renseignements : 514-847-6226. Site Internet : www.macm.org

Le Muse dart contemporain est une socit dtat subventionne par le ministre de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition fminine du Qubec et bnficie de la participation financire du ministre du Patrimoine canadien et du Conseil des Arts du Canada.

L'ONF en bref

titre de producteur et de distributeur public canadien duvres audiovisuelles, lONF cre des documentaires caractre social, des animations dauteur, de la fiction alternative et du contenu numrique, qui prsentent au monde un point de vue authentiquement canadien. Depuis sa fondation en 1939, lONF a cr plus de 13 000 productions et remport au-del de 5000 rcompenses, dont 12 Oscars et plus de 90 prix Gnie. En 2009, le film Voisins/Neighbours, de Norman McLaren, grand pionnier de lanimation de lONF, a t inscrit au Registre de la Mmoire du monde de lUNESCO.

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Nourrir un enfant : des rsultats loquents!

Montral, le 5 janvier 2010 - La campagne 2009 de Nourrir un enfant a atteint son objectif et la mme dpass : prs de 315 000 $ ont t recueillis cet automne, un rsultat qui rcompense les efforts gnreux du public qui a rpondu lappel, contre toute attente. Au Qubec, la solidarit triomphe de la crise!

Il faut rendre un hommage tout spcial aux artistes qui, linvitation de Diane De Courcy, la prsidente de la Commission scolaire de Montral et prsidente de Nourrir un enfant, ont solidairement accept de faire la promotion de Nourrir un enfant, chacun dans sa rgion : Isabelle Cyr, Boom Desjardins, Boucar Diouf, Marc Hervieux, Jose Lavigueur, Marie Nicole Lemieux, Pnlope McQuade, Bruno Pelletier et Francis Reddy.

Cette anne, Nourrir un enfant est venu en aide plus de 32 300 enfants dfavorissĶ des enfants qui, comme les autres enfants, pourront croire, eux aussi, en leurs chances dun meilleur avenir.

Un grand merci aux partenaires : Metro, Super C, Petitmonde.com et RBC, qui ont contribu au succs de la campagne.

Rappelons que Nourrir un enfant est une initiative de LUVRE LGER, qui en assume tous les frais : 100 % des dons reus servent la cause des enfants dmunis du Qubec.

Gewandhaus Kapellmeister Riccardo Chailly to Conduct Grand Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Tours of 7 Cities in North America with Pianist Nelson Freire and Violinist Nikolaj Znaider


AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTA, INC TO BE ANNOUNCED IN NEW YORK FOR THE FIRST TIME ON FEBRUARY 27.   DETAILS WILL FOLLOW LATER.

The  much lauded conductor Riccardo Chailly will be conducting the glorious Leipzig Gewandhaus  Orchestra as part of an 7 City US tour. We would be very grateful if you would consider combining a story about this great conductor, soloists Nelson Freire and Nicoaj Znaider,  and foremost, The Leipzig Gewandhaus one the greatest of orchestras in the world as well as a new concept and the first of the American Friends of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, 
 
DETAILS FOR WEEKLY AND MONTHLY CONCERT CALENDARS FOLLOW AT END OF RELEASE

Los Angeles(17.02.2010)
Palm Desert(18.02.2010)
Costa Mesa(19.02.2010)
San Francisco(21.02.2010)
San Francisco(22.02.2010)
Boston(25.02.2010)
Newark(26.02.2010)
New York(27.02.2010)
New York(28.02.2010)
please use the following link for downloading press material: (Artist's Biographies, Photos, Reviews)

http://www.gewandhaus.de/gwh.site,postext,promotion-kit-en.html?PHPSESSID=92241063caf8ffb966be4e4b89063c25 

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 The official Cami web site for the Gewandhaus Orchestra is:  


The Gewandhaus Orchestra is Leipzig's most important musical ambassador Of Leipzig, touring throughout the world on a regular basis:

The Sunday Times selected Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra performance of Beethoven 8 and 9, Barbican. January1  2009, as the greatest classical music performance of the decade. The newspaper lauded  the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra as having given one of the best classical concerts of the decade  among 15 Events in the entire the world.

The Guardian chose  the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestras performance of St. Matthews Passion as one of the top 10 performances in classical concerts in 2009 in England.

Chailly, Bach and the Gewandhaus Kapellmeisters

New CD releases in 2010 (Decca):


 January 2010                  Easter 2010                End of December 2010

January 2010:
Brandenburg Concertos


Mid-2010:
St. Matthew Passion


Late 2010:
Christmas Oratorio                                
In 2010 three CDs will be released by Decca with major works of Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded by the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly. With his dedication to Bach, Chailly continues the Leipzig Gewandhaus Kapellmeisters' tradition, dating back to Mendelssohn, of preserving Bach's heritage, while breaking with his predecessors' practice of not conducting the Christmas Oratorio.
The Gewandhaus Orchestra was founded during Bach's lifetime. For centuries, it was the mainstay of the Bach tradition in Leipzig, together with the St. Thomas's Boys Choir and its music director.
 A look at history, however, reveals that, from Mendelssohn's day onwards, it was the Gewandhaus Kapellmeisters whose commitment enabled Bach's music to experience a major renaissance by making it accessible to a wide audience during the mid-19th century. The idea of establishing Bach's music in public concert life again largely emanated from Leipzig.
 With three new CD releases and numerous concert programmes, Riccardo Chailly is continuing the tradition of his predecessors, while breaking with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Kapellmeisters' long-standing practice of not conducting the Christmas Oratorio.
Felix Mendelssohn conducted the first revival of the St. Matthew Passion after Bach's death (1750) at St. Thomas's Church in 1841. Mendelssohn's successor, Julius Rietz, established the tradition of presenting the St. Matthew Passion every year on Good Friday (regularly from 1856 at St. Thomas's Church). It should be noted that the Gewandhaus Kapellmeister not the St. Thomas's music director conducted these performances until 1907 (with Arthur Nikisch). Beginning in 1908 Karl Straube assumed the conducting duties, but he did not become the St. Thomas music director until 1918. Since then, the Passion performances by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra have been associated primarily with this position a tradition that is obviously not as old as people often think.
In 1857, the Berlin Sing-Akademie revived the Christmas Oratorio, the first performance since Bach's death more than 100 years earlier. Soon afterwards, sections of the work were presented at the Gewandhaus under Carl Reinecke. After Reinecke, however, no other Gewandhaus Kapellmeister conducted the Oratorio in the Gewandhaus. The first performance in the new Gewandhaus (1982) was conducted by Georg Christoph Biller, then Gewandhaus chorus director. Thus, the performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio on 7 and 8 January 2010, with Gewandhaus Music Director Riccardo Chailly conducting the Gewandhaus Orchestra, are a rarity. The work will be recorded live and released on CD by Decca in late 2010.
Mendelssohn also introduced Bach's instrumental concertos into the concert hall. Since then, they have been a permanent part of the Gewandhaus Orchestra's repertoire and have been conducted frequently by all Gewandhaus Kapellmeisters, including Riccardo Chailly. But Chailly would not be Chailly if he did not use this tradition as an opportunity to continue these musical achievements into the future. During the concerts on 10, 11 and 12 June 2010 he will conduct the premiere of the Goldberg Variations in an arrangement for orchestra by Jochen Neurath. On 16, 18 and 19 June he will conduct the premiere of another Gewandhaus commission the chorale variations on the Christmas song "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her" for chorus and orchestra by Laurent Mettraux.
 This year's tour is the orchestra's 14th tour to the North American continent
 The Gewandhaus Orchestra has toured the USA and Canada for 33 years; to date the orchestra has played 229 concerts in the USA alone. The first US tour took place in 1974. In 1987 the orchestra embarked on the most spectacular tour in its history 15 concerts in Japan, followed immediately by another 13 concerts in the USA.

During its previous US tours the Gewandhaus Orchestra has performed more often on the East Coast than the West Coast, with only four appearances in Los Angeles. Kurt Masur conducted two concerts there in both 1992 and 1991. Palm Desert was on the itinerary for the first time during the West Coast tour in 1991 and again, with Herbert Blomstedt, in 2001. The orchestra has been an infrequent guest in San Francisco thus far. Kurt Masur conducted only three concerts in the Bay City (1987, 1991) and Herbert Blomstedt, one, in 2001.

The East Coast of the USA is a different story. Boston has been a favorite tour destination particularly because of the concert hall, whose architects drew inspiration from the second Gewandhaus for structural measures to optimize the hall's acoustics. The orchestra made its debut in Boston during its first USA tour in 1974, followed by seven further appearances under Kurt Masur until 1993. Boston then disappeared from the orchestra's itinerary for 14 years, until Riccardo Chailly conducted a concert in the Massachusetts capital in 2007. The Gewandhaus Orchestra performed for the first time in Newark, which is situated near New York City, under Herbert Blomstedt in 2004, with a second appearance under Riccardo Chailly in 2007. The orchestra makes its debut in Costa Mesa in 2010


Itinerary 2010


Riccardo Chailly, Gewandhaus Kapellmeister
Soloists: Nelson Freiere. Piano;  Nikolaj Znajder. Violin

LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA   


Los Angeles (17.02.2010)
Walt Disney Concert Hall

135 North. Grand Avenue

213-972-7211


Ludwig van Beethoven
5. Konzert fr Klavier und Orchester
Es-Dur op. 73
Ludwig van Beethoven
7. Sinfonie A-Dur op. 92

Nelson Freire, Piano


Palm Desert (18.02.2010)
Mc Callum Theatre

73000 Fred Waring Drive

760-340-2787

Ludwig van Beethoven
3. Ouvertre zu der Oper "Leonore"

op. 72a
Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy
Konzert fr Violine und Orchester
e-Moll op. 64
Johannes Brahms
2. Sinfonie D-Dur op. 73


Nikolaj Zanider, Violon


Costa Mesa (19.02.2010)
Orange County Performing Art Centre

600 Town  Center Drive

714- 549-3876

Ludwig van Beethoven
3. Ouvertre zu der Oper "Leonore"
op. 72a
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Konzert fr Violine und Orchester
e-Moll op. 64
Antonn Dvork
9.
Sinfonie e-Moll op. 95 ("Aus der Neuen Welt")

Nikolaj Znaider; Violin


San Francisco (21.02.2010)
Davies SF Symphony Hall
201 Van Ness Avenue


415-552-8000

Fryderyk Chopin -  1. Konzert fr Klavier und Orchester
Antonn Dvork - 9. Sinfonie ("New World")

Nelson Freire, Piano


San Francisco (22.02.2010)

SF Symphony Hall
201 Van Ness Avenue

415-552-8000

Ludwig van Beethoven - 5.
Konzert fr Klavier und Orchester

Ludwig van Beethoven - 7. Sinfonie
Nelson Freire, Piano


Boston (25.02.2010)
Symphony Hall
251 Huntington Avenue

 617-247-8130

Ludwig van Beethoven  - 5.
Konzert fr Klavier und Orchester
Ludwig van Beethoven - 7.
Sinfonie 
Nelson Freire, Piano


Newark (26.02.2010)
New Jersey Performing Arts Centre

 973-642-2002

Ludwig van Beethoven
5. Konzert fr Klavier und Orchester
Es-Dur op. 73
Ludwig van Beethoven
7. Sinfonie A-Dur op. 92

Nelson Freire, Piano




New York (27.02.2010)
Carnegie Hall

Ludwig van Beethoven
3. Ouvertre zu der Oper "Leonore"
op. 72a
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Konzert fr Violine und Orchester
e-Moll op. 64
Antonn Dvork
9.
Sinfonie e-Moll op. 95 ("Aus der Neuen Welt")

Nikolaj Znaider; Violin


 
 
New York (28.02.2010)
Carnegie Hall

Fryderyk Chopin
1.
Konzert fr Klavier und Orchester
e-Moll op. 11
Johannes Brahms
2. Sinfonie D-Dur op. 73

Nelson Freire, Piano

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Gonzales ouvre le 21 janvier


Limmense Gonzales ouvre le 21 janvier 20h00 la saison 2010 de Piano International avec un concert indit en hommage Glenn Gould. Un dmarrage dtonnant pour la premire dition de Piano International, une saison de piano en Limousin qui allie rencontres musicales et conomiques. En prlude de ce concert sont organises 17h00 des tables rondes sur le thme :  Green Business, concept stratgique et responsable au cur de lentreprise .

Nourri de multiples influences (lectro-pop-classique), Gonzales est un artiste part entire aux multiples facettes qui impressionne par la richesse et la diversit de son inspiration et son sens du spectacle.

Avide de rencontres, de dcouvertes et des nouvelles harmonies, il  travaille avec une liste impressionnante dartistes : Daft Punk,  Bjrk, David Bowie... Il ralise le remarquable album de Feist, et arrange entre autres les albums de Jane Birkin, Phillipe Katerine, Christophe Willem, Charles Aznavour, Teki Latex et Jean-Louis Aubert. Avec lalbum Solo Piano , Gonzales dcroche sa notorit en tant quinterprte et est enfin reconnu auprs du public. Son exubrance le conduit remporter le record Guinness World Records du concert solo le plus long en jouant  plus de 200 morceaux durant vingt-sept heures, trois minutes et quarante-quatre secondes, un concert marathon.

Invit le 21 janvier au Ple de Lanaud, il a concoct un programme son image : surraliste, touchant et virtuose. Consacr Glenn Gould ce concert est l'hommage dune personnalit excentrique canadienne une autre. Il racontera sa rencontre avec lartiste juch sur la rplique exacte de la chaise de Glenn Gould,  une chaise squelettique, inconfortable et encore lgendaireĶ Suivront des crations propres de Gonzales de style nobaroque, ainsi qu'une large slection du rpertoire canadien en provenance d'autres icnes de son pays natal telles que Leonard Cohen et Cline Dion...

En prlude de ce concert, Piano International qui se propose dtre galement un espace dchanges, dinformations et un outil de dveloppement de rseaux organise 17h00 des tables rondes autour du thme :  Green Business, concept stratgique et responsable au cur de lentreprise .
 
 
Les prochaines rencontres musicales de Piano International
Piano International recevra mercredi 24 fvrier Edna Stern, nouveau phnomne du piano dans un programme Bach Chopin.  Le 11 mars, Alexander Paley usera de sa technique blouissante pour sattaquer un programme remarquable : Tableaux dune exposition de Mussorgsky  et les 24 prludes de Rachmaninov. Eric Le sage, le spcialiste des grands romantiques viendra clore la saison avec un programme Schuman dont il est seul matre.

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Allegra : 29ime saison / 29th Season

jeudi 21 janvier 20 h
Thursday January 21 at 8 pm
salle Redpath, Universit McGill / Redpath Hall, McGill University


piano
Dorothy Fieldman Fraiberg
violon/violin
Yukari Cousineau
violon/violin
Alexander Lozowski
alto/viola
Brian Bacon
violoncelle/cello
Katherine Skorzewska

Robert Schumann
Quatuor avec piano en mi bmol majeur, op. 47
(1810-1856)
Piano Quartet in E flat Major, Op. 47 for piano, violin, viola & cello

Robert Schumann
Sonate no. 1 en la mineur pour violon & piano
(1810-1856)
Sonata No. 1 in a minor for violin & piano

Robert Schumann
Quintette avec piano en mi bmol majeur, op. 44
(1810-1856)
Piano Quintet in E flat Major, Op. 44

514.935.3933
www.allegrachambermusic.com

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Friday, January 8, 2010

Le vernissage de la traditionnelle exposition de la Maison Trestler Entre-Nous

Le jeudi, 14 janvier 2010 entre 19h30 et 21h30 aura lieu le vernissage de la traditionnelle exposition de la Maison Trestler Entre-Nous

Sous la prsidence dHonneur de Monsieur Gilles Farand, Prfet de la MRC de Vaudreuil-Soulanges

Nous rassemblons des artistes de la rgion matrisant des mdiums diffrents (Aquarellistes, sculpteurs, huiles, mixtes, mtiers dart et autres), tous seront regroups pour vous dmontrer leur talent.

Vous tes les bienvenus pour cette grande soire, soulignant le dbut des activits 2010 de la Maison Trestler.

Cette exposition se poursuivra jusquau 21 fvrier.

Bienvenue tous et bon dbut danne au secteur culturel !

La Maison Trestler

85 chemin de la Commune

Vaudreuil-Dorion, Qc

J7V 2C3

450-455-6290

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Elektra Women's Choir Presents A Workshop for Conductors and Those That Want To Be!

With Morna Edmundson, Artistic Director

Saturday, January 16, 2010 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Ryerson United Church Hall, Fireside Room
2195 W45th Ave, Vancouver BC

Pre-registration deadline January 13.

Fee $30, payable by cheque, Visa, Mastercard through the Elektra office, 604.739.1255. PayPal accepted at the Elektra website: http://elektra.ca/index.php?article=mentor

If pre-registration is not possible for you, you can register on site with cash, a cheque, Visa, or Mastercard. Please arrive by 9:45 am if registering on site.

Please bring a bag lunch.
Further information 604.739.1255

Morna Edmundson, Artistic Director of Elektra Women's Choir, will lead a 3-hour workshop for conductors of any skill level and type of choir. The workshop will include discussion of warm-ups and vocal technique, conducting technique, and repertoire selection.
This workshop is offered as part of Elektra's 2010 Conductor's Mentorship program and is open to anyone interested in choral conducting. In creating the mentorship program within the context of Elektra, it is hoped that the participating conductors will become more familiar with both the repertoire and sound of a women's choir and be inspired to work in this genre.

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The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College Spring 2010 Season

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College announces its Spring 2010 Season at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC, presenting three series: The Art of Justice, which integrates the arts and issues on justice; Great Music for a Great City, unique explorations of classical music; and Familytime!, bringing the arts to the next generation. The Theater also presents special events this season: The Legacy of Shoah Concert and Film Festival (the American premieres of four documentaries) and Zombie, featuring a special talkback with author Joyce Carol Oates on February 12, 2010.

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater's Spring 2010 Season includes:

* Chopin's 200th Birthday Marathon

* First Throws
* Story Time with Barnes and Noble at John Jay: Will You Be My Valentine?
* John Jay's Got Talent!
* Zombie
* Story Time with Barnes and Noble at John Jay: Rise and Shine, It's Springtime!
* The Legacy of Shoah Concert and Film Festival
* Story Time with Barnes and Noble at John Jay: Shout Hooray for Earth Day!
* Bloody Bess
* Story Time with Barnes and Noble at John Jay: Mother May I?
* Ballet Academy East Spring Performance



Chopin's 200th Birthday Marathon

Great Music for a Great City Series

Sunday, February 21 at 3pm

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth, pianists from all over the world will honor composer Frederic Chopin with performances of his works.

FREE


First Throws

Play Reading Series

Monday, February 22; Monday, March 22; and Monday, April 26 at 7pm

First Throws is John Jay's first playwright salon, presenting new theatrical works and readings in a casual setting. First Throws presents new works that examine issues of justice with an artistic perspective.

FREE


Story Time with Barnes and Noble at John Jay: Will You Be My Valentine?

Familytime! Series

Tuesday, February 23 at 11am

Our beloved storytelling hour continues with seasonal favorites children will love.

FREE


John Jay's Got Talent!

Tuesday, February 23 at 7pm

John Jay hits the stage once more, showcasing performers from all over the college, all vying for the chance to be the John Jay Performer of the Year.

FREE


Zombie

by Bill Connington

adapted from the novella by Joyce Carol Oates

The Art of Justice Series

Wednesday, March 10 - Saturday, March 13 at 7pm

Once upon a time, Jeffrey Dahmer was the normal guy next door. Now meet Quentin P. - mild-mannered, unassuming, and a serial killer attempting to turn young men into his zombie slaves. Come get inside the mind of a homicidal psychopath. . . if you dare.

Tickets $15 (CUNY Students FREE with Valid ID)

For tickets, call Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or visit www.ticketcentral.com.


Story Time with Barnes and Noble at John Jay: Rise and Shine, It's Springtime!

Familytime! Series

Tuesday, March 23 at 11am

Our beloved storytelling hour continues with seasonal favorites children will love.

FREE


The Legacy of Shoah Concert and Film Festival

Great Music for a Great City Series

Concert - Saturday, March 27 at 7pm

Film Festival - Sunday, March 28 from 12:30 - 9:30pm

The Legacy of Shoah is a unique and compelling two-day festival of documentary films, lectures and music concert that share the personal experiences of survivors of the Holocaust. The Festival will feature the American premiere of The Forgotten Transports, four films about deportations of Jews to little known concentration camps in Latvia, Belarus, Estonia and Poland, told through the memories of survivors by the award-winning director Lukas Pribyl. The concert will include Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata, Bach's Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, Children of the Night by Marion Wiesel, and Forgotten Transports to Poland by Lukas Pibyl. The film Forgotten Transports to Latvia (Lukas Pibyl) will be shown on 12:30pm, 3pm and 5:30pm on March 28, with Distant Journeys (Alfred Radok) at 8pm.

Concert Tickets: $5 (FREE with Festival Pass)

All Festival Pass: $20 (Individual Films $5)

For tickets, call Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or visit www.ticketcentral.com.


Story Time with Barnes and Noble at John Jay: Shout Hooray for Earth Day!

Familytime! Series

Tuesday, April 13 at 11am

Our beloved storytelling hour continues with seasonal favorites children will love.

FREE


Bloody Bess

Conceived by Stuart Gordon

Written by William J. Norris and John Ostrander

Directed by Kathryn Wylie-Marques

Presented by John Jay's Department of Communication and Theatre Arts

The Art of Justice Series

Tuesday, April 20 - Friday, April 23 at 7pm; Wednesday, April 21 and Saturday, April 24 at 2pm

Bloody Bess is the swashbuckling tale of Elizabeth Presberty, daughter to the governor of the island of Tobago, and her transformation into the avenging pirate captain, Bloody Bess. This melodramatic thriller is sure to please with its larger than life characters, action-packed fight scenes, hairpin plot reversals, and sizzling feminist overtones.

Tickets $10 (Students $5)

For tickets, call the Communication and Theater Arts department at 2120in


Story Time with Barnes and Noble at John Jay: Mother May I?

Familytime! Series

Tuesday, May 4 at 11am

Our beloved storytelling hour continues with seasonal favorites children will love.

FREE


Ballet Academy East Spring Performance

Familytime! Series

Friday, May 21 and Saturday, May 22 at 7pm; Saturday, May 22 and Sunday, May 23 at 2pm

The BAE Student Company Spring Performance returns to present its very popular Pre-Professional Division of Ballet Academy East in works choreographed by renowned artists of the dance world. For more information, visit www.balletacademyeast.com.

Tickets $35-55 (CUNY Students FREE with Valid ID)

For tickets, call Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or visit www.ticketcentral.com.


Since opening its doors in 1988, the Gerald W. Lynch Theater has been an invaluable cultural resource for John Jay College and the larger New York City community. Under the new direction of Executive Director Shannon R. Mayers, the Theater is dedicated to the creation and presentation of performing arts programming of all disciplines with a special focus on how the artistic imagination can shed light on the many perceptions of justice in our society. The Theater has hosted prestigious events for Lincoln Center Festival, Great Performances, Julliard, Alvin Ailey and numerous television specials for HBO and Comedy Central.


About John Jay College of Criminal Justice: An international leader in educating for justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York offers a rich liberal arts and professional studies curriculum to upwards of 14,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 135 nations. In teaching, scholarship and research, the College approaches justice as an applied art and science in service to society and as an ongoing conversation about fundamental human desires for fairness, equality and the rule of law. For more information, visit www.jjay.cuny.edu.



For more information, visit www.jjay.cuny.edu/theater.php.

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Portland Symphony Orchestras First Concert of 2010 Focuses on Head and Heart Sunday, January 24


January 5, 2010

PORTLAND, Maine New Years resolutions often focus on change, a desire to open up to new experiences, gain knowledge. The Portland Symphony Orchestras first concert of 2010 is a perfect example, as conductor Robert Moody takes the audience on an inspirational and moving journey of Head and Heart. This emotionally charged concert pairs the heartfelt poignancy of Ravel's exquisite musical lament Pavane pour une enfante defunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) with the frenetic and brilliant genius of Mozarts Symphony No. 29 in G minor (the opening music in Milo Formans film Amadeus). Apropos of both head and heart, the centerpiece of the program is Headcase, a multimedia musical exploration of living composer Brett Dietz's struggle to regain clarity after a suffering a stroke at the age of 29. The Pittsburgh Tribute Review called Headcase haunting and powerful - a remarkably sophisticated score that blends words, music and visual displays to touch the heart and mind.

Sponsored by New England Rehabilitation Hospital of Portland (NERHP), Head and Heart takes place on Sunday, January 24 at 2:30 p.m. in Merrill Auditorium. Please note that Headcase does contain some potentially disturbing language and imagery and may not be suitable for younger audiences.


Tickets range from $17-$56 and are available through PortTix at (207) 842-0800 or
www.porttix.com. Phone and internet orders are subject to $6-per-ticket handling fees. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the box office at 20 Myrtle St., Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.

Related activities:


Ģ
Composer Symposium by Brett Dietz on Friday, January 22 at 5:30 p.m. at the Dana Center on the Maine Medical Center campus. A joint presentation of the PSO, NERHP and Maine Medical Center. $5 suggested donation to benefit the PSOs Community Connections program, RSVP to education@portlandsymphony.com


Ģ Open Dress Rehearsal for high school and college students on Sunday, January 24 at 10:00 a.m. Email education@portlandsymphony.com for reservations.

Ģ Work by artist and brain-injury survivor Hilary Zayed will be on display in the lobby of Merrill Auditorium at the concert.

Ģ Concert Conversation with Robert Moody and Brett Dietz at 1:15 p.m. prior to the concert.

Ģ PostConcert Q&A with the artists immediately following the concert.

Ģ MaineStage broadcast of this concert on MPBN, Wednesday, February 10 at 8:00 p.m.

The PSOs 2009-10 season is sponsored by IDEXX Laboratories. For complete season information, including artist biographies; program notes; and Online Insights, provided with support from Season Enrichment Sponsor Fairpoint Communications; visit www.portlandsymphony.com.

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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Riccardo Chailly and Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig on 7-City US Tour

GEWANDHAUS KAPELLMEISTER RICCARDO CHAILLY TO CONDUCT GRAND LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA TOURS OF 7 CITIES IN THE NORTH AMERICA WITH PIANIST NELSON FREIRE AND VIOLINIST NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTA, INC TO BE ANNOUNCED IN NEW YORK FOR THE FIRST TIME ON FEBRUARY 27. DETAILS WILL FOLLOW LATER.

The much lauded conductor Riccardo Chailly will be conducting the glorious Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra as part of an 7 City US tour. We would be very grateful if you would consider combining a story about this great conductor, soloists Nelson Freire and Nicoaj Znaider, and foremost, The Leipzig Gewandhaus one the greatest of orchestras in the world as well as a new concept and the first of the American Friends of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra,
DETAILS FOR WEEKLY AND MONTHLY CONCERT CALENDARS FOLLOW AT END OF RELEASE

Los Angeles(17.02.2010)
Palm Desert(18.02.2010)
Costa Mesa(19.02.2010)
San Francisco(21.02.2010)
San Francisco(22.02.2010)
Boston(25.02.2010)
Newark(26.02.2010)
New York(27.02.2010)
New York(28.02.2010)




The Gewandhaus Orchestra is Leipzig's most important musical ambassador Of Leipzig, touring throughout the world on a regular basis:

The Sunday Times selected Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra performance of Beethoven 8 and 9, Barbican. January1 2009, as the greatest classical music performance of the decade.The newspaper lauded the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra as having given one of the best classical concerts of the decade among 15 Events in the entire the world.

The Guardian chose the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestras performance of St. Matthews Passion as one of the top 10 performances in classical concerts in 2009 in England.

Chailly, Bach and the Gewandhaus Kapellmeisters

New CD releases in 2010 (Decca):

January 2010 Easter 2010 End of December 2010

January 2010:
Brandenburg Concertos

Mid-2010:
St. Matthew Passion

Late 2010:

Christmas Oratorio

In 2010 three CDs will be released by Decca with major works of Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded by the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly. With his dedication to Bach, Chailly continues the LeipzigGewandhaus Kapellmeisters' tradition, dating back to Mendelssohn, of preserving Bach's heritage, while breaking with his predecessors' practice of not conducting the Christmas Oratorio.

The Gewandhaus Orchestra was founded during Bach's lifetime. For centuries, it was the mainstay of the Bach tradition in Leipzig, together with the St. Thomas's Boys Choir and its music director.

A look at history, however, reveals that, from Mendelssohn's day onwards, it was the Gewandhaus Kapellmeisters whose commitment enabled Bach's music to experience a major renaissance by making it accessible to a wide audience during the mid-19th century. The idea of establishing Bach's music in public concert life again largely emanated from Leipzig.

With three new CD releases and numerous concert programmes, Riccardo Chailly is continuing the tradition of his predecessors, while breaking with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Kapellmeisters' long-standing practice of not conducting the Christmas Oratorio.

Felix Mendelssohn conducted the first revival of the St. Matthew Passion after Bach's death (1750) at St. Thomas's Church in 1841. Mendelssohn's successor, Julius Rietz, established the tradition of presenting theSt. Matthew Passion every year on Good Friday (regularly from 1856 at St. Thomas's Church). It should be noted that the Gewandhaus Kapellmeister not the St. Thomas's music director conducted these performances until 1907 (with Arthur Nikisch). Beginning in 1908 Karl Straube assumed the conducting duties, but he did not become the St. Thomas music director until 1918. Since then, the Passion performances by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra have been associated primarily with this position a tradition that is obviously not as old as people often think.

In 1857, the Berlin Sing-Akademie revived the Christmas Oratorio, the first performance since Bach's death more than 100 years earlier. Soon afterwards, sections of the work were presented at the Gewandhaus under Carl Reinecke. After Reinecke, however, no other Gewandhaus Kapellmeister conducted the Oratorio in the Gewandhaus. The first performance in the new Gewandhaus (1982) was conducted by Georg Christoph Biller, then Gewandhaus chorus director. Thus, the performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio on 7 and 8 January 2010, with Gewandhaus Music Director Riccardo Chailly conducting the Gewandhaus Orchestra, are a rarity. The work will be recorded live and released on CD by Decca in late 2010.

Mendelssohn also introduced Bach's instrumental concertos into the concert hall. Since then, they have been a permanent part of the Gewandhaus Orchestra's repertoire and have been conducted frequently by all Gewandhaus Kapellmeisters, including Riccardo Chailly. But Chailly would not be Chailly if he did not use this tradition as an opportunity to continue these musical achievements into the future. During the concerts on 10, 11 and 12 June 2010 he will conduct the premiere of the Goldberg Variations in an arrangement for orchestra by Jochen Neurath. On 16, 18 and 19 June he will conduct the premiere of another Gewandhaus commission the chorale variations on the Christmas song "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her" for chorus and orchestra by Laurent Mettraux.

This year's tour is the orchestra's 14th tour to the North American continent

The Gewandhaus Orchestra has toured the USA and Canada for 33 years; to date the orchestra has played 229 concerts in the USA alone. The first US tour took place in 1974. In 1987 the orchestra embarked on the most spectacular tour in its history 15 concerts in Japan, followed immediately by another 13 concerts in the USA.

During its previous US tours the Gewandhaus Orchestra has performed more often on the East Coast than the West Coast, with only four appearances in Los Angeles. Kurt Masur conducted two concerts there in both 1992 and 1991. Palm Desert was on the itinerary for the first time during the West Coast tour in 1991 and again, with Herbert Blomstedt, in 2001. The orchestra has been an infrequent guest in San Francisco thus far. Kurt Masur conducted only three concerts in the Bay City (1987, 1991) and Herbert Blomstedt, one, in 2001.

The East Coast of the USA is a different story. Boston has been a favorite tour destination particularly because of the concert hall, whose architects drew inspiration from the second Gewandhaus for structural measures to optimize the hall's acoustics. The orchestra made its debut in Boston during its first USA tour in 1974, followed by seven further appearances under Kurt Masur until 1993. Boston then disappeared from the orchestra's itinerary for 14 years, until Riccardo Chailly conducted a concert in the Massachusetts capital in 2007. The Gewandhaus Orchestra performed for the first time in Newark, which is situated near New York City, under Herbert Blomstedt in 2004, with a second appearance under Riccardo Chailly in 2007. The orchestra makes its debut in Costa Mesa in 2010

Itinerary 2010

Riccardo Chailly, Gewandhaus Kapellmeister

Soloists: Nelson Freiere. Piano; Nikolaj Znajder. Violin

LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA


Los Angeles (17.02.2010)
Walt Disney Concert Hall

135 North. Grand Avenue

213-972-7211


Ludwig van Beethoven
5. Konzert fr Klavier und Orchester
Es-Dur op. 73
Ludwig van Beethoven
7. Sinfonie A-Dur op. 92

Nelson Freire, Piano


Palm Desert (18.02.2010)
Mc Callum Theatre

73000 Fred Waring Drive

760-340-2787

Ludwig van Beethoven
3. Ouvertre zu der Oper "Leonore"

op. 72a
Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy
Konzert fr Violine und Orchester
e-Moll op. 64
Johannes Brahms
2. Sinfonie D-Dur op. 73

Nikolaj Zanider, Violon




Costa Mesa (19.02.2010)
Orange County Performing Art Centre

600 Town Center Drive

714- 549-3876

Ludwig van Beethoven
3. Ouvertre zu der Oper "Leonore"
op. 72a
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Konzert fr Violine und Orchester
e-Moll op. 64
Antonn Dvork
9.
Sinfonie e-Moll op. 95 ("Aus der Neuen Welt")

Nikolaj Znaider; Violin



San Francisco (21.02.2010)
Davies SF Symphony Hall
201 Van Ness Avenue

415-552-8000


Fryderyk Chopin - 1. Konzert fr Klavier und Orchester
Antonn Dvork - 9. Sinfonie ("New World")

Nelson Freire, Piano

San Francisco (22.02.2010)

SF Symphony Hall

201 Van Ness Avenue

415-552-8000


Ludwig van Beethoven - 5. Konzert fr Klavier und Orchester

Ludwig van Beethoven - 7. Sinfonie
Nelson Freire, Piano

Boston (25.02.2010)
Symphony Hall
251 Huntington Avenue

617-247-8130

Ludwig van Beethoven - 5. Konzert fr Klavier und Orchester
Ludwig van Beethoven - 7.
Sinfonie

Nelson Freire, Piano


Newark (26.02.2010)
New Jersey Performing Arts Centre

973-642-2002

Ludwig van Beethoven
5. Konzert fr Klavier und Orchester
Es-Dur op. 73
Ludwig van Beethoven
7. Sinfonie A-Dur op. 92

Nelson Freire, Piano

New York (27.02.2010)
Carnegie Hall

Ludwig van Beethoven
3. Ouvertre zu der Oper "Leonore"
op. 72a
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Konzert fr Violine und Orchester
e-Moll op. 64
Antonn Dvork
9.
Sinfonie e-Moll op. 95 ("Aus der Neuen Welt")

Nikolaj Znaider; Violin


New York (28.02.2010)
Carnegie Hall

Fryderyk Chopin
1.
Konzert fr Klavier und Orchester
e-Moll op. 11
Johannes Brahms
2. Sinfonie D-Dur op. 73

Nelson Freire, Piano



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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Pleins Feux sur la Posie

La chorale de chambre acclame de Montral chante des pomes franais
mis en musique par Debussy, Hindemith, Gilles Tremblay, Karen Young et plusieurs autres
Dimanche 24 janvier 2010, 19 h 30

Montral, 5 janvier, 2010 Pour ouvrir sa saison hiver-printemps 2010, VivaVoce prsente Pleins feux sur la posie avec comme pote invit M. Jos Acquelin.

Le programme, comprenant des versions a cappella de pomes de Ronsard, dApollinaire, de Charles d'Orlans, de Paul luard, de Francine Hamelin, de Gaston Miron et de Rainer Maria Rilke, met en vedette les compositeurs Claude Le Jeune, Paul Hindemith, Claude Debussy et plusieurs autres. De plus, le programme a deux crations : les compositeurs montralais Karen Young et Isaiah Ceccarelli.

Dans le cadre de lhommage que la SMCQ rend Gilles Tremblay, lensemble VivaVoce est particulirement fier dinclure une rare reprsentation de Lespace du cur de Gilles Tremblay pour chur et percussions.

Le pote qubcois Jos Acquelin lira les pomes mis en vedette en usant de son style et de son charme inimitables.

Au sujet de VivaVoce
VivaVoce se dmarque dautres chorales professionnelles canadiennes par son rpertoire vari et souvent audacieux. Sous la direction artistique de Peter Schubert, VivaVoce offre des concerts comments amusants et ducatifs dans divers genres musicaux, depuis le chant grgorien jusqu la musique du XXIe sicle. Lapproche originale adopte par ce chur lui a valu la fidlit de son auditoire ainsi quune reconnaissance dans le milieu de la musique classique. En effet, VivaVoce a reu neuf nominations dans six catgories diffrentes des Prix Opus et a remport un premier prix en 2004. De plus, son coffret de tous les Magnificats de Pierre de la Rue a remport le prix Choc du mois du journal Le Monde de la musique.

Pleins feux sur la posie
Le 24 janvier 2010 19 h 30
Salle de concert Redpath (3461, rue McTavish, Montral)

Billets disponibles la billetterie de lcole de musique Schulich au 514-398-4547
ou au rseau ADMISSION au 514-790-1245 ou en ligne au www.admission.com

Rgulier : 30 $; ge dor : 25 $; tudiant : 10 $ des tarifs de groupe sont disponibles.

Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez visiter le site www.vivavoce-montreal.com.

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Les Rencontres Jazz en Rafale : Dvoilement de la Programmation pour la 10me dition !

Pour son 10e anniversaire, Jazz en Rafale dmnage lAstral

Montral, le 5 janvier 2010 - Le festival Jazz en Rafale est fier de vous dvoiler la programmation de sa srie principale qui, pour ce 10me anniversaire, dmnage lAstral (la nouvelle maison des Festivals). Le festival se droulera, comme son habitude, sur deux fins de semaines conscutives, les 18, 19, 20 et 25, 26, 27 mars 2010.

Des rencontres tous les soirs

Cette srie propose des concerts totalement indits et uniques, runissant sur la mme scne des artistes locaux et internationaux. changes, dialogues musicaux, motions et surprises seront au rendez-vous tous les soirs partir de 20h!

18 mars : Yaron Herman (France) Trio + Quatuor cordes

19 mars : Duo piano Jean-Michel Pilc (NY) + Franois Bourassa

20 mars : Andr Leroux Quartet + Ari Hoenig (NY)

25 mars : Karen Young et ses duos Michel Donato, Norman Lachapelle et ric Auclair

26 mars : Richard Gagnon Trombones Actions + Steve Davis (NY)

27 mars : 1re partie - Rafael Zaldivar trio

2e partie - duo guitare Sylvain Luc + + Sylvain Provost

Le Upstairs : nouveau partenaire

Nous profitons de loccasion pour vous annoncer un nouveau partenariat de coproduction avec le Upstairs qui accueillera des concerts Jazz en Rafale tous les soirs. Cette srie sera aussi loccasion dassister des rencontres surprises. La programmation sera dvoile trs prochainement.

5e Concours de la Relve Jupiter-Vandoren

Retrouvez en 1re partie de chaque concert la 5me dition du Concours de la Relve Jupiter-Vandoren, de 19h 19h45 lAstral. Les rsultats seront dvoils le 27 mars aprs la prestation du Rafael Zaldivar trio.

Nous vous rappelons galement que les inscriptions au concours de la Relve Jupiter-Vandoren sont ouvertes jusquau 5 fvrier 2010. Les conditions de participation et le formulaire sont disponibles sur www.jazzenrafale.com

Billetterie

Les billets sont dj en vente par Internet sur le rseau TicketPro et la billetterie de lAstral (514-288-8882), 305 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Montral.

Un nouveau site Internet

Le nouveau site Internet www.jazzenrafale.com sera lanc dbut janvier.

Informations : 514-597-2477 info@jazzenrafale.com

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Monday, January 4, 2010

Nuits DAfrique Ķdes spectacles TOUTE lanne! prsentent dans le cadre de la nouvelle srie de concerts Cordes Cordes


2010

entame lanne avec les plus grands noms

de la musique du monde de la scne montralaise !

Cette nouvelle srie de concerts vous fera dcouvrir

lextraordinaire diversit des instruments cordes.

Montral le 4 janvier 2010- Pinces, frappes ou frottes, les cordes sonnent et rsonnent depuis plusieurs milliers dannes travers le monde. La srie de concerts CORDES CORDES prsente au mythique Club Balattou met de lavant une fabuleuse diversit dinstruments cordes dici, dailleurs de maintenant et dautrefois mis en valeur par des artistes de renom, issus de la scne locale, nationale et internationale.

Chaque prestation est prcde dune courte prsentation de linstrument au centre de chaque concert. Il est galement noter que la plupart des artistes inclus dans cette programmation ont revisit leur rpertoire afin que leur instrument corde respectif soit lhonneur et des plus prsent dans les pices musicales quils ont choisies de prsenter.

A souligner limplication de Guitares Godin, fier partenaire de la srie CORDES CORDES qui permettra aux spectateurs prsents davoir la chance de remporter 2 prestigieuses guitares. Les coupons de participation seront disponibles au Club Balattou dans le cadre de chaque concert de la srie et le tirage aura lieu le 17 fvrier 2010.

A partir de janvier 2010, les instruments cordes de lAfrique de louest et du nord feront vibrer la corse sensible des adeptes de cette nouvelle srie de concerts qui a connu un franc succs lautomne Ķ.

A venir en janvier et fvrier 2010 :

Mardi 12 Janvier

Zal Idrissa Sissokho (Sngal)

- Kora -

Dimanche 24 Janvier

Aboulaye Kon & Bolokan (Cote d'Ivoire)

- Guitare mandingue -

Dimanche 31 Janvier

Hassan El Hadi (Maroc)

- Oud -

Dimanche 7 Fvrier

Oumar N'diaye Xosluman (Sngal)

- Guitare folk -

Mercredi 17 Fvrier

Abdel Karim SaaDa (Algrie)

- Banjo


au Club Balattou

4372, boul. St-Laurent (coin Marie-Anne) - Montral

Au Club Balattou (514) 845-5447

www.balattou.com

www.festivalnuitsdafrique.com

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Dan Perjovschi : commentaires chaud

Commentaire social dun artiste provocateur accueilli au ROM. Venez le voir luvre du 13 au 22 fvrier.

Toronto (Ontario), le 4 janvier 2010 LInstitut de culture contemporaine (ICC) du Muse royal de lOntario (ROM) prsente la nouvelle installation Dan Perjovschi : commentaires chaud, compter du 22 fvrier 2010. Artiste trs en vue dans le domaine de lart contemporain, Perjovschi recouvrira de ses dessins brillants et irrvrencieux les murs lancs de la Galerie Roloff Beny, au niveau 4 du Cristal Michael Lee-Chin du Muse.

Lartiste sera en rsidence au Muse pendant 10 jours, du 13 au 22 fvrier, et crera ses dessins au trait exceptionnels en prsence des visiteurs du ROM. Toutefois, ces uvres originales seront exposes au Muse jusqu lt 2010.

Ragissant aux problmes conomiques mondiaux, aux changements sociaux acclrs et aux bouleversements politiques, lart de Perjovschi examine, de manire perceptive et souvent insolente, des sujets qui nous empchent de dormir. Nous sommes ravis de laccueillir au ROM, de pouvoir lobserver en pleine action et dhriter dune uvre originale, un clich honnte du monde daujourdhui , dclare M. William Thorsell, directeur et chef de la direction gnrale du ROM.

Dan Perjovschi : commentaires chaud

LICC a invit Perjovschi crer une nouvelle installation dans un espace dsign du ROM et, du 13 au 22 fvrier 2010, il transformera les murs de la Galerie Roloff Beny. Durant cette priode, lartiste simprgnera des mdias locaux, suivant lactualit de la presse locale et internationale, de lInternet, de la tlvision et de la radio, et sen inspirant pour travailler. Ses dessins sont toujours une raction personnelle latmosphre sociale et politique ainsi quau lieu gographique o il les excute. Comme il ralise ses crations durant les heures douverture du Muse au public, les visiteurs peuvent le voir au travail : lacte crateur devient alors une performance en soi. Vu que luvre sera oblitre par de la
peinture la clture de lexposition, lICC produira une publication gratuite (offerte au public dans la galerie au printemps) pour documenter linstallation Commentaires chaud.

Dan Perjovschi

Dorigine roumaine, Perjovschi combine croquis, dessins humoristiques et graffiti pour concevoir des uvres quil excute directement sur les murs de muses et despaces dart contemporain en Europe et en Amrique. Pleins desprit mais mordants, ses dessins spontans commentent les vnements et les enjeux politiques, sociaux et culturels de lheure. Son style dessin au trait dpouill et improvis lui permet de rsumer les conflits et dilemmes qui surviennent dans le monde en un commentaire politique immdiat et franc. Perjovschi est lun des observateurs de la conscience collective les plus perspicaces de notre temps.

Le caricaturiste a attir lattention sur la scne internationale la 48e Biennale de Venise, en 1999, en recouvrant le sol du pavillon roumain de dessins et de graffiti politiques se rapportant la vie aprs le communisme. la 52e Biennale (2007), ses dessins ont fait partie de lexposition internationale principale. Il a galement son actif des expositions individuelles et collectives au Tate Modern (London), au Tate Liverpool, au Muse dart moderne (New York), au Kunsthaus Baselland (Ble), au Centre Pompidou (Paris) et la Biennale de Moscou.

Peintre de nature morte form dans une acadmie des beaux-arts de style sovitique en Roumanie, Perjovschi est appel sinterroger sur la nature pratique de cet apprentissage classique aprs leffondrement de la dictature de Ceauescu en 1989. Depuis la chute du mur de Berlin la mme anne et la monte de lUnion europenne, lidentit rgionale et nationale de la Roumanie et dautres pays a beaucoup volu. Cette nouvelle ralit politique se prte lironie bien sentie et sans complaisance de Perjovschi, que son exprience en journalisme rend encore plus acerbe. Depuis 1991, lartiste est illustrateur politique et directeur artistique du journal dopposition Revista 22 de Bucarest, premire revue politique avoir t fonde en Roumanie aprs la chute du rgime de Ceauescu.

En plus des vnements politiques de 1989, lactivit artistique de Perjovschi subit linfluence dartistes des annes 1960 et 1970 illustrateurs de presse, artistes de la scne internationale, en particulier les mdias. Lartiste souhaite communiquer un plus grand nombre ses ides satiriques sur la socit et opte pour le langage populaire de la caricature politique. Pour ses dessins, il sinspire dune multitude de sources : conversations, rumeurs, articles de journaux, commrages, tlvision et vnements rgionaux et internationaux. Des 200 dessins tracs dans ses cahiers de croquis, une vingtaine peine se retrouveront sur un mur.

Ses illustrations sont intentionnellement minimalistes. Ses dessins au trait simples sont raliss au marqueur noir et saccompagnent parfois de brefs jeux de mots ou de lgendes incisives. En quelques traits, Perjovschi rsume la situation en ce qui concerne la religion, le terrorisme, le nationalisme ou la surconsommation. La cration hybride qui en rsulte, alliant graffiti et activisme, possde les meilleures qualits dun bon dessin de presse humoristique.

Perjovschi choisit de dessiner directement sur les murs plutt que sur du papier pour des raisons de rapidit, de mobilit, dinstantanit et de libert de cration. Ses installations sont des vnements passagers qui le mobilisent totalement; il cre des uvres phmres laide de marqueurs permanents.

Institut de culture contemporaine

LInstitut de culture contemporaine (ICC) du ROM joue un rle essentiel au sein dun muse dont les collections englobent de nombreuses civilisations travers les ges. En marge du traitement dynamique de lhistoire dont le Muse a le secret, lICC est la vitrine du ROM sur la socit contemporaine. Linstitut explore les enjeux culturels actuels en organisant des expositions dart, des confrences, des projections cinmatographiques et des runions informelles. Les collections du ROM offrent contexte et profondeur aux questions contemporaines souleves par les intervenants du monde entier qui participent aux vnements de lICC. Ainsi, lICC joue un rle dterminant pour favoriser le dialogue avec le public. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez visiter le site Web de lInstitut ladresse http://www.rom.on.ca/icc/index_fr.php.

Autres renseignements :

Laccs lexposition Dan Perjovschi : commentaires chaud est compris dans le prix du billet dentre au Muse. Adultes : 22 $; tudiants et personnes du 3e ge munis dune pice didentit : 19 $; enfants (de 4 14 ans) : 15 $; gratuit pour les enfants de 3 ans et moins. Des billets demi-tarif sont offerts durant les Nocturnes du vendredi (de 16 h 30 21 h 30), sous le parrainage de la Financire Sun Life. Groupes de 10 personnes adultes et plus : pour obtenir des renseignements sur nos tarifs spciaux de visites guides prives, communiquez avec le Service de vente aux groupes du Muse au 416.586.5889 ou, par courriel, ladresse groupsales@rom.on.ca.
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Le Muse royal de lOntario (ROM) est un organisme du gouvernement de lOntario. Ouvert en 1914, le plus grand muse du Canada consacr la fois lhistoire naturelle et aux cultures du monde possde six millions dobjets et abrite des galeries portant sur les arts, larchologie et les sciences naturelles. La volont damliorer laccs aux collections, aux espaces et au contenu du Muse sest traduite par ltablissement de nouvelles priorits de financement pour 2010, qui concernent laccessibilit, le contenu numrique, lducation, la recherche et les collections, la programmation et les expositions, ainsi que la mise en valeur des galeries du ROM. Pour obtenir des renseignements 24 h sur 24, en franais et en anglais, veuillez composer le 416.586.8000 ou visiter le site Web du ROM www.rom.on.ca.

Expositions laffiche en ce moment :

Les expositions Les manuscrits de la mer Morte : Des mots qui ont chang le monde et Les portraits de Vanity Fair : photographies de 1913 2008 sont laffiche jusquau 3 janvier 2010.

Expositions venir :

Du 9 janvier au 4 avril 2010 : Faux et contrefaons

Billetterie lectronique du ROM : www.rom.on.ca

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Direct Flight Theatre Presents Therac 25

by Adam Pettle

Directed by Hume Baugh

BREAD AND CIRCUS, Kensington Market

February 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

Opening Night: February 13, 2009

Therac 25 is a play about two young people who meet and embark on a relationship in the cancer ward of Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. The first question one must ask is why would anyone choose such a bleak setting to present a love story? For Adam Pettle the script was a survival mechanism to preoccupy himself during radiation therapy after a stay in the hospital in 1995. Extremely well developed characters suffering from two forms of cancer are what navigate Therac 25. Alan's is less serious while Moira's is inoperable. Drawing empathy for them doesn't appear to be a great challenge. The obstacle at hand is immersing theatregoers in deep seeded fear and allowing them to ache for hope. Alan and Moira meet while undergoing cancer treatment. Their companionship and humour help them struggle against isolation and fear, even while their personal boundaries and Moira's worsening condition strain their bond. Adam Pettle's Therac 25 reveals how friendships form under the most difficult circumstances.

Amber Mills (Moira/Artistic Producer) is a Toronto based theatre artist. Most recently, Amber was in Edmonton, playing Helena in Theatre Prospero's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other recent credits include: Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and the Nurse in Romeo & Juliet, also for Theatre Prospero, Maria in DreamNorth Theatre Company's production of Twelfth Night, which ran in Toronto and then toured to Whitehorse, Yukon, Shelby in Steel Magnolias for the Stirling Festival Theatre, Don John in Much Ado About Nothing with DreamNorth Theatre Company, All's Well That Ends Well with Alchemy Theatre, the workshop production of Fireweeds with Scriptlab, and The Beggar's Opera and Anne of Green Gables, both with the Thousand Islands Playhouse. She is the proud co-founder of The Patient Logmen, an ensemble of six actors that come together on a weekly basis to work on Shakespeare. Amber is a graduate of the theatre program at Queen's University.

Michael Rode (Alan/Artistic Producer) is an actor and composer living in Toronto. He is a graduate of the drama program at Queen's University. Selected credits: Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet (Theatre Prospero). Bertram in Alls Well That Ends Well (Alchemy Theatre); Brutus in Julius Caesar, Othello Single Thread Theatre; The Winters Tale, The Oresteia for Theatre Kingston; Volpone at the Rotunda Theatre, Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream for both the Flower City Festival directed by Peter van Wart, and in Edmonton for Theatre Prospero. Film and TV credits include Keith Moon in Final 24: Keith Moon, David Milgaard in Cold Blood (NF Productions). He is a co-founder of the Kingston based Single Thread Theatre Company and a member of the Shakespeare ensemble The Patient Logmen. Upcoming work includes a two-actor adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. He is the newly minted co-artistic producer of Direct Flight Theatre with his wife, Amber Mills.

Director Hume Baugh trained at LAMDA and has been an actor for 27 years. He has appeared at the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, Canadian Stage, Tarragon, Factory, Theatre Passe Muraille, Buddies in Bad Times, Threshold Theatre, Platform 9, and Shakespeare in the Rough, among many others. Directing credits include All's Well That Ends Well at Alchemy Theatre, La Duchesse de Langeais for the Orlando Fringe, and Child Hood for Summerworks. He is the author of two plays: The Girl in the Picture Tries to Hang Up the Phone, a one-person show which he has performed in Toronto, Ottawa, Windsor and Montreal, and Crush, which was presented by Optic Heart Theatre at Summerworks in 2008. Teaching experience includes George Brown College, Fraser Studios, Theatre Rusticle, and Tarragon Theatre. He has published prose and poetry in Queen's Quarterly and This Magazine, and has a piece appearing in the Spring 2010 issue of The New Quarterly. Upcoming, as an actor: Birnam Wood for Theatre Rusticle at Theatre Passe Muraille.

Therac 25 , Adam Pettle's first play, premiered in Halifax at the Atlantic Festival in 1995 and then in Toronto at the Tarragon, Extra Space in 1997. In 2001 Therac 25 was nominated for Best New Play at the Toronto theatre awards.

Alan asks, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Alive" Moira responds

Amber Mills, Michael Rode,

Hume Baugh, Director, Sarah Bustard, Stage Manager,

Devon Bhim, designer, Adam Burgess Musician

Equity Co-op * All profits from this first production to, REBECCA'S HOPE, (www.rebeccashope.com) a cancer research charity that Amber and Michael are personally connected to.

THERAC 25

by Adam Pettle

Directed by Hume Baugh

BREAD AND CIRCUS, 299 Augusta Ave
Ticket Prices: by donation, suggested donation: $20

February 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

Opening Night: February 13, 2009
Time: Feb. 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20 at 8:00pm

Feb 14 & 21st at 6:00pm (Sundays)


Tickets can be purchased through Bread and Circus: http://www.breadandcircus.ca/

or by emailing: tickets@directflighttheatre.com

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Salov Concert a Manitoba Debut

WINNIPEG Pianist, Serhiy Salov makes his Manitoba debut this Saturday, January 9, 2010 at Eckhardt-Grammatt Hall, kicking off the second half of Virtuosi Concerts 2009-2010 season.

Salov made his first solo debut at the age of eleven with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. He studied first at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany and completed postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Currently, he resides in Montreal and is pursuing a doctorate at LUniversit de Montral. Salov has been a winner at numerous international competitions, including the Concours Musical de France in Paris in 1998, the Long-Thibaud International Piano Competition in 2001 and the Montreal International Piano Competition in 2004 to name just a few.

His recitals usually include the works of Ukrainian composers as well as personal favorites and this concert is no exception. All but the smaller pieces in this recital have been with me for my entire life and are my close friends, Salov says. The newcomer is the Rite of Spring. I have arranged orchestral works for piano, but this is my most ambitious project. As Salov is considered an Ambassador of Ukrainian culture to Canada Virtuosi Concerts is pleased to acknowledge the Honorary Patronage of the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada for this performance.

Programme: SCARLATTI Sonata in E major, K 380 L 23; CHOPIN Ballade in G minor, Op 23; LIGETI Deux tudes - Arc En Ciel, Fanfare; STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring, arranged by S. Salov; SKORYK Kolomyika (Ukrainian Folk Song) Pisnya Boyka (from the piano cycle, In the Carpathian Mountains); LYSENKO Second Rhapsody, Dumka-Shumka, Op 18; BEETHOVEN Sonata Op 53 in c major, Waldstein

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Kabaretti Hails Canadians Mathieu and Lefevre in West Coast Premiere of 'Lost Concerto'


Nir Kabaretti, the Music and Artistic Director of the Santa Barbara Symphony, will conduct the West Coast Premiere of French - Canadian composer Andr Mathieus Concerto No. 4 for Piano and Orchestra on January 23rd and 24th, at the Granada Theater in Santa Barbara, California. The Lost Concerto will be performed by renowned Canadian pianist Alain Lefevre, a longtime advocate and champion of Mathieus music.

When I discovered Mathieus Concerto No. 4, I was struck not only by Mathieus melodic gift , keen harmonies and dramatic elements, but also by this works pure romantic grandeur, explained Kabaretti. It is a masterpiece in every way: a work worthy of introduction to a wider audience.

I am truly honoured that Alain Lefevre, who single-handedly resurrected the original piano recording and commissioned its orchestral arrangement, agreed to grace us with his talent and passion for this amazing forgotten composer. Our audience is in for a remarkable musical journey of discovery and delight!

About Composer Andr Mathieu

The Forgotten Genius, Andr Mathieu (1929-1968) was a child prodigy and one of the 20th century greatest pianists. He was born in Montreal where he studied piano and began composing at the age of four. He made his pianistic debuts in Montreal at the age of six, in Paris at seven and at Carnegie Hall at the tender age of ten. His extraordinary prowess as a composer induced no other than the great Rachmaninov to pronounce him A genius, more so than I am. Mathieu went on to study composition in Paris and New York and produced a large body of work during his short life span. Tragically, in his later years he suffered a disastrous love affair, succumbed to alcoholism and melancholy and died at the age of 39. His Concerto de Quebec and Rhapsodie romantique for piano and orchestra are amongst his more famous works, though it is estimated that only a quarter of his compositions were ever found.

About Conductor Nir Kabaretti

Nir Kabaretti, at the helm of the Santa Barbara Symphony since 2006, has established an outstanding international career as a dynamic and passionate conductor with vast experience in both the symphonic and operatic repertoire. A graduate of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Kabaretti was appointed Chorus Master of the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival. He served as Assistant to the Music Director of Teatro Real in Madrid, and as Conductor of Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and personal assistant of Maestro Zubin Mehta. In 2004 Kabaretti made his Teatro alla Scala di Milano debut in Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker, and in 2007 he returned to La Scala for Mendelssohns Ballet Midsummer Nights Dream.

Kabaretti conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, L'Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires, Orquestre National du Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano "La Verdi", Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra of Rishon Le Tzion, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Niedersterreichisches Tonknstlerorchester, La Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid, La Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria and the Bochumer Symphoniker . He was also appointed Principal Conductor of the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra in Israel in 2002 and a year later as its Music Director till 2008.

In 2009 Kabaretti hosted world-renowned pianist Lang Lang in a Beethoven gala concert, and in 2010 he launched the season at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Italy, with a New Year concert.

Kabarettis operatic experience includes productions at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ( Die Entfhrung aus dem Serail, Macbeth, Il Trovatore, Gianni Schicchi, The Journey to Rheims ), Teatro Real in Madrid ( Cenerentola, Die Walkre ), The Israeli Opera ( Fidelio, Manon Lescaut ), Opra de Lausanne ( Nino Rota's Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze, Die Fledermaus) and The New National Theatre in Tokyo ( The Barber of Seville ). He also conducted The Diary of Anne Frank, a visiting production of the Vienna State Opera, at both the Bregenz Festival and at Expo 2000 in Hanover. In 2005 Kabaretti led Teatro San Carlo di Napoli on its first tour to Japan conducting Il Trovatore both in Kyoto and Tokyo.

Concert Details:

Ooh, La, La : Santa Barbara Symphony

January 23, 3pm; January 24, 8pm

Nir Kabaretti, conductor
Alain Lefevre, piano

Andr Mathieu: Piano Concerto No. 4

Cesar Franck: Symphony in D minor

The Granada, 1214 State Street

Santa Barbara, California

Website: www.thesymphony.org

Tickets: (805) 899-2222

Nir Kabarettis official website: http://www.nirkabaretti.com

For additional news, updates, reviews and background information about Nir Kabaretti, join his Fans of conductor Nir Kabaretti Facebook page at: www.facebook.com

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Online Ticket Sale Begins Today!



$29 tickets to four different ESO performances this January - Purchase online now until January 8

Late Night Beethoven

Friday, January 8 at 9:30 pm

An interactive concert event featuring Beethoven's 2nd Symphony and 2nd Piano Concerto, with Bill Eddins on piano, conducting, and in conversation. Stick around after the concert for live jazz and cocktails in the lobby.

Thank you to our Late Night Sponsor: Lexus of Edmonton

Violinissimo!

Thursday, January 14 at 8:00 pm

Concertmaster Martin Riseley returns to perform a selection of his favourite "party pieces", from a playful Tchaikovsky waltz to a quiet lyrical piece by Gershwin, will Bill Eddins conducting.

Thank you to our series sponsor: Bill & Mary Jo Robbins

Thank you to our media sponsor: Global TV

European Inspirations

Sunday, January 17 at 2:00 pm

In this marriage between the music of medieval magic and folk-art celebration, this performance features young promising pianist, Daniel Fung performing a dazzling work by Liszt, plus selections from Falla's comic ballet The Three-Cornered Hat and Dvok's Carnival Overture.

Thank you to our media sponsors: CKUA Radio Network, Edmonton's Child

Schubert's Unfinished Symphony

Wednesday, January 27 at 7:30 pm

Conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni presents an inspiring concert program of Schubert and Rameau. Canadian soprano Simone Osborne joins the orchestra for a celebratory motet by Mozart and a beloved cantata by Bach, and the ESOs own Robin Doyon is also featured as guest soloist.

Thank you to our season media sponsor: Edmonton Journal

$29 tickets (service charges apply) are available for online purchase only at www.edmontonsymphony.com from January 4 8, 2010.

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Dr. Norman Bethune Celebrates a new work by Richard Saucedo

Monday May 31, 7:30 p.m., musicians from Dr. Norman Bethune C.I. and the environmental group, Beat (Bethune Environmental Action Team) invite you to celebrate spring with their musicians and vocalists at Markham Theatre. The concert will feature new and published works by the composer Richard Saucedo who will conduct his works. His new work is dedicated to the environment.

In addition to the band works, the concert will feature the choir led by Ann Willoughby; Jazz Ensemble led by Rick Humphrey; the Drum Line led by Jason Alaksa and featuring the premiere of a three movement work by Bill Thomas, Director of Bands at York University. The Junior Band led by Nora Mular-Richards will perform Saucedos work Meeting at Tryon Palace and the Senior Band will perform the premiere of the new work dedicated to the environment.

Tickets are $15. For further information or tickets, please call 416-396-8200 ext. 20137.

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Violinist Volodja Balzalorsky has been Awarded Five Prestigious Music Awards in the past three years / New Digital Releases in various countries

Ljubljana, Slovenia--January 04, 2010 / (http://www.myprgenie.com) -- Cantabel Productions is delighted to announce some excited news about our artist, the violinist Volodja Balzalorsky, who recently received his 5th music award in the past three years, in the category "Classical Music" at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, for live recordings from his Live Collection (http://hmmawards.mi2n.com/pr.php3?id=125057).

The Hollywood Music In Media Awards recognizes and honors the music of independent artists from around the globe. The Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA) was presented Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at The Highlands in the world famous Hollywood & Highlands / Kodak Theater complex in Hollywood, CA.

About Volodja Balzalorsky:

For the past couple of years Volodja Balzalorsky has been making a splash in the US and Canada, winning also the Inland Empire Music Award for Best International Artist in 2008, the Ontario Independent Music Award in 2007, and was a nominee for the Los Angeles Music Award 2007 and 2008 and a nominee for Hollywood Music Award 2008.

Volodja Balzalorsky also received the Canary Islands Music Award 2007 in Spain, and the Betetto Music Award (2006), the highest music award given in Slovenia.

Volodja Balzalorsky performs as a solo violinist, recitalist, and chamber musician, for which he consistently receives outstanding acclaim. Numerous highly praised concerts, broadcasts, CD and TV recordings in various countries, have established his reputation as an artist with a sensitive, intelligent, and intuitive gift of interpretation.

Volodja Balzalorsky is particularly active in the field of chamber music. He performs with several well-known international artists and ensembles. Critics comment on the degree to which he is able to develop and maintain unity with his musical partners in this milieu, presenting "Ķan exceptional harmony of ease and authenticity of performanceĶ"

Balzalorsky's 2008-09 season brought performances in Italy, Norway, Denmark, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, and in USA.

Highlights of Mr. Balzalorsky's 2009-2010 Season include performances at Ljubljana Festival in Slovenia, at Festival Spectrum in Gasteig, Munich, with Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra performing Brahms Concerto at Pershore Abbey in England, recital at The Red Hedgehog Celebrity Concert Series in London, 3rd performance at Carnegie Hall in New York (ArrivaDiva Master Recital Series), at SXSW Festival in Austin in March 2010, and with Amael Piano Trio in San Marino, Belgrade, Zagreb and twice in Rome.

For more information about Volodja Balzalorsky's upcoming concerts, free mp3 download-airplay quality and where to buy his recordings (albums and downloads), please visit the following web pages:

Official web page of Volodja Balzalorsky: www.balzalorsky.net

Electronic Press Kit: High resolution Photos for download: www.sonicbids.com/balzalorsky

New Album Releases on MySpace: http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.artistalbums&artistid=13220647

Fan page of Volodja Balzalorsky on Facebook: www.facebook.com/balzalorsky

Volodja Balzalorsky on Twitter: www.twitter.com/balzalorsky

Free mp3 download for fans: www.reverbnation.com/volodjabalzalorsky

Free download - Broadcast quality recordings for airplay: www.airplaydirect.com/balzalorsky

Photo Gallery on Hollywood Music In Media Awards web page: http://www.hmmawards.com/index.php?option=com_joomgallery&func=viewcategory&catid=4&startpage=25&Itemid=92#category

Description: Volodja Balzalorsky accepts the Hollywood Music in Media Award at podium.

About Volodja Balzalorsky's Live Collection:

The live collection of Volodja Balzalorsky is a unique presentation featuring the violinist with his chamber music partners, from 1985 to the present, performing famous violin-piano Sonatas by Franck, Brahms, Grieg, Debussy, Janacek, Szymanowski and some other compositions by Dvorak, Paganini and Srebotnjak. The performances are taken from live national broadcasts, international festivals and concert series, around the world.

The Live Collections was originally released in Slovenia by Cantabel Productions, in partnership with Eroica Classical Recordings in USA, and is now available through IODA digital distribution on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic.

Free Broadcast Quality Download for Radio Stations is available on Airplay Direct (Digital Press Kit): www.airplaydirect.com/volodjabalzalorsky

Latest digital releases:

Latest digital releases of Balzalorsky's Live Collection in December 2009: in United Kingdom on 7digital, Amazon.co.uk, and MySpace UK, in Germany on Amazon.de and T-Online/Musicload, in France on Amazon.fr in US on Medianet, MySpace.com, Puretracks.com and Spotify, in Japan on Amazon.jp and in China on R2G.

New digital releases of Cantabel Productions planned in February / March 2010:

Amael Piano Trio Live from Spectrum Festival featuring works by Alfred Schnittke, Astor Piazzolla, Johannes Brahms and Slovenian work Maestoso Lugubre written by Lucian Maria Skerjanc and Portrait of Volodja Balzalorsky, featuring works by Ernest Bloch, Karol Szymanowski, Alojz Srebotnjak and Johannes Brahms.

Full-length preview on Last.fm:
www.last.fm/music/Volodja+Balzalorsky/Portrait+of+Volodja+Balzalorsky

To see press release go to http://myprgenie.com/3753

Contact: Marie Michaud, +38612316310, info@cantabel.com


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Canadian Debut of Alt-Classical Quartet Highlight of January Performances

The New Year has just arrived, and The Royal Conservatory is kicking off the next decade with a wide ranging set of performances encompassing classical music, flamenco dance, and the blues.

Concerts begin on January 16, when musical globetrotters Quartetto Gelato come to Koerner Hall. Praised by The New York Times for their warm, endearing vitality, they will warm up the winter with selections from their latest disc, Musica Latina, which explores the hot and cool sounds of South America. Joining them in a double bill is New York-based alt-classical string quartet, ETHEL, in their Canadian debut. This amplified ensemble of Juilliard graduates has been described by The Guardian as the fiercest string quartet this side of hell. Having collaborated with everyone from Ornette Coleman to Lenny Kravitz, their music fuses classical, rock, blues, and jazz. Dedicated to educational outreach, the group will also present a free public master class on January 15. The concert is sponsored by CBC Radio 2, who will be recording the performance for future broadcast.

A blast of blues will hit Koerner Hall on January 18, when the TBS Maple Blues Awards come to The Royal Conservatory for the first time. Co-presented by the Toronto Blues Society, the 13th edition of Canadas only national blues awards program will honour the best blues musicians across Canada. Hosting duties will be handled by popular blues performer and radio host Danny Marks, along with Nanaimos Juno-nominated blues musician David Gogo. Performers include Quebec Citys Clio & The Blues Highway, Vancouvers The Twisters, Torontos Paul Reddick, B.C.-based Harry Manx, and The Maple Blues Band, featuring Gary Kendall, Michael Fonfara, Teddy Leonard, Tom Bona, Al Lerman, Chris Whiteley, Pat Carey, and Chris Murphy.

Koerner Halls first dance performance comes courtesy of the electrifying Spanish touring company, Noche Flamenca, and its incomparable dancer, Soledad Barrio. Hailed for their emotional performances, Noche Flamenca is recognized as the most authentic flamenco touring group in the field today. The Village Voice has exclaimed that the company digs deep into flamencos dark soul. Their thrilling combination of music, song, and dance makes a welcome two night return to Toronto on January 30 and 31, as part of their North American tour.

Performances in Mazzoleni Hall begin on January 17, with distinguished Toronto musicians and Conservatory faculty members Bryan Epperson and Dianne Werner. These frequent collaborators will present a diverse program of Beethoven, Rachmaninov, and modern Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik.

Beautiful chamber music continues on January 31, when the highly sought-after ensemble, The Duke Trio, comes to Mazzoleni Hall. Having performed in recitals across North America, Conservatory faculty members Mark Fewer (violin), Thomas Wiebe (cello), and Peter Longworth (piano) will perform an all-Brahms program of duo and trio works, and will be joined by violist Douglas McNabney for the Piano Quintet in G Minor.

Founded in 1886, The Royal Conservatory is the largest and oldest independent arts educator in Canada. It is an internationally renowned centre for performance and learning, providing opportunities for personal development through music and arts education in over 300 communities across Canada and a dozen countries around the world. Each year, more than 500,000 Canadians take part in RCM programs, exams, and public school initiatives.

The Royal Conservatory acknowledges all of its donors and recognizes the remarkable generosity of:

TELUS Official season sponsor of the 2009-10 Koerner Hall Concert Season

The Globe and Mail Season media sponsor

CONCERTS AND EVENTS AT THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY JANUARY 2010

KH Koerner Hall; MH Mazzoleni Hall; CT Conservatory Theatre

ETHEL Master Class: Friday, January 15, 2010 at 5pm; FREE (CT)

Quartetto Gelato & ETHEL: Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 8pm; $20-$50 (KH)

Bryan Epperson with Dianne Werner: Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 2pm; $30 (students $20) (MH)

TBS Maple Blues Awards: Monday, January 18, 2010 at 7pm; $20-$28 (KH)

Noche Flamenca: Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 8pm and

Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 3pm; $30-$75 (KH)

The Duke Trio: Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 2pm; $30 (students $20) (MH)

INDEPENDENT PRESENTATIONS

Arianna Huffington: The Brave New World of the New Media (Advertising Week 2010):

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 4pm; $75 (KH)

Penderecki Plus! (Esprit Orchestra): Friday, January 29, 2010 at 8pm; $15-$43 (KH)

Tickets are available online at www.rcmusic.ca, by calling 416.408.0208,

or in person at the Weston Family Box Office, 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto

More information about upcoming concerts and events is available The Royal Conservatory website at www.rcmusic.ca.

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Le Quatuor Bozzini prsente Alt:Neu

Thtre musical

Les 28, 29, 30 janvier 2010, 20 h

Salle multimdia - Conservatoire de musique de Montral
4750, rue Henri-Julien / Mtro Mont-Royal

Prix des billets : 25 $ (rgulier), 18 $ (anes), 10 $ (tudiants).
Rservation : www.admission.com ou 514 790-1245.
Rabais de 50% au dtenteur de la carte rabais Saison Le Vivier (www.saisonlevivier.ca ).

www.quatuorbozzini.ca


Montral, 4 janvier 2010 Le Quatuor Bozzini lancera sa dixime saison de concerts les 28, 29 et 30 janvier 2010, la salle multimdia du Conservatoire de musique de Montral, en proposant un thtre musical o seront convoqus lancien et le nouveau dans une mise en scne de Jean-Frdric Messier, du thtre Momentum.

Au programme : les Streichquartett no 1 et no 2 de Mauricio Kagel ( lAncien ), et deux crations des jeunes compositeurs Eliav Brand (Isral-Berlin) et Jennifer Walshe (Dublin-New York). La soire sannonce haute en couleur: non seulement le quatuor fera preuve dune trs grande thtralit, mariant humour et virtuosit, mais on aura aussi droit une touche de multimdia au moyen de bandes lectroniques, vido et lumires, dans une salle intime la fine pointe de la technologie musicale.

LES CRATEURS
Mauricio Kagel, compositeur argentin dcd Cologne lan dernier, fut toujours inventif, rebelle et universel. Ses uvres, confondantes dimagination, comprennent souvent une dimension visuelle ; pour les interprter, le quatuor Bozzini se livrera une gestuelle surprenante lhumour incisif, mais jamais gratuit.
Puis, passant dhier aujourdhui, on assistera lexcution des uvres de Eliav Brand et Jennifer Walshe, deux compositeurs reconnus pour loriginalit de leur regard musical et leur faon inimitable de transposer sur une partition un matriel sonore et visuel souvent emprunt la vraie vie. Le metteur en scne Jean-Frdric Messier assurera la cohsion dramatique de ces propositions musicales. Une soire la Bozzini , o le talent, la matrise et la passion de la musique seront palpables chaque seconde !

Les uvres de Eliav Brand et Jennifer Walshe sont des commandes du Quatuor Bozzini, grce un prix dot dune bourse de la Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung (Allemagne).


DIX ANS DE JEU, DE CRATION ET DE SUCCS
Clbrant cette anne son 10e anniversaire, le Quatuor Bozzini explore autant la forme du concert classique que celles dvnements plus clats. Le quatuor prsente annuellement une srie montralaise, un Salon des compositeurs et une semaine de laboratoire musical pour la relve, le Composers Kitchen. Il fait rgulirement des tournes internationales et possde sa propre tiquette de disques, la collection qb (www.collectionqb.com). Il a command ce jour une quarantaine duvres et en a cr prs dune centaine. Le quatuor Bozzini tient remercier de leur soutien : le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qubec, le Conseil des arts de Montral, le Conseil des Arts du Canada, la Fondation Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung (www.evs-musikstiftung.ch/en/01_stiftung.html).
Ce concert est prsent dans le cadre de la Saison Le Vivier.

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Production 30e Anniversaire : Tosca

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TOSCA

de Giacomo Puccini

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts

30 janvier, 3, 6, 8, 11 fvrier 2010 20 h & 13 fvrier 2010 14 h

AIMER MORT

Montral, 4 janvier 2010 Il y a 30 ans, lOpra de Montral lanait sa compagnie avec le drame et la passion de Tosca de Giacomo Puccini. Pour souligner ses trente ans dexistence, lOpra de Montral remet laffiche luvre de Puccini, ici au sommet de son art, dans une nouvelle production du San Diego Opera. Pour incarner lhistoire tragique de Floria Tosca confronte un dilemme insoluble pour sauver la vie de son amant, deux chanteurs qui font leurs dbuts la compagnie : la soprano germano-italienne Nicola Beller Carbone incarnera lintense rle-titre et le tnor canadien David Pomeroy celui de son amant, le peintre Mario Cavaradossi. leurs cts, le baryton-basse amricain Greer Grimsley (Barbe-Bleue 2003) incarnera le sinistre Scarpia, le chef de la police, le baryton-basse canadien Alexandre Sylvestre (Ltoile 2005), celui du Sacristain et le baryton-basse canadien Stephen Hegedus, le rle de Cesare Angelotti.

La production voluera dans des dcors signs par le concepteur franais Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, des costumes de Malabar et des clairages dAnne-Catherine Simard-Deraspe. La mise en scne a t confie au Canadien Michael Cavanagh qui signait Turandot (1997), Madame Butterfly (2002) et Romo et Juliette (2007) pour la compagnie. LOrchestre Mtropolitain et le Chur de lOpra de Montral seront dirigs par le chef Paul Nadler. Messieurs Cavanagh et Nadler ont dailleurs contribu la russite de la production de Romo et Juliette prsente la compagnie en 2007.

Apro lOpra

La grande gagnante du projet Apro lOpra, la soprano Annie Sanschagrin (Crabtree), participera galement la production de Tosca : dans les dcors et avec orchestre, elle chantera le grand air Vissi darte et le duo du premier acte avec le tnor de la production David Pomeroy lors de la reprsentation du 13 fvrier 2010 et ce, aprs la reprsentation rgulire. Apro lOpra fait lobjet dune srie documentaire de sept pisodes en collaboration avec La Presse Tl et diffuse sur ARTV ds le mardi 26 janvier 19 h (rediffusion : les samedis 15 h 30 et dimanches 9 h et 18 h); cette srie prsentera toutes les coulisses du projet et le travail des six candidats qui ont suivi une formation intensive de chanteurs dopra tout lautomne lOpra de Montral.

Puccini

Puccini pense mettre en musique la pice de Sardou ds 1896, peine six mois aprs la premire de La bohme, et finit par obtenir lautorisation de lauteur qui accepte la suppression dun acte mais exige le maintien de la fin rapide et violente de luvre. La premire reprsentation fut un chec complet, mais Tosca ralliera trs vite le public. Le livret de Giacosa et dIllica resserre la trame narrative et vacue pratiquement le contexte historico-politique. Il concentre laction sur laffrontement entre Tosca, Cavaradossi et Scarpia, vritable moteur du drame. Lintrigue correspond la mise en place du pige quil manigance et qui le mne la mort avant de se refermer sur Tosca et Mario.

Avec son superbe thme caractristique, Puccini compose une uvre forte o le dialogue dramatique prdomine et colle au vrisme par lexpression des passions exposes crment et ce souci du ralisme. Latmosphre est sombre (Puccini choisit des tessitures basses et une seule voix fminine) et oppressante, et la fine musique de Puccini ne cde aucun dbordement. Le pivot dramatique de luvre, lacte II, est laffrontement huis clos des trois protagonistes, o Puccini dpeint avec beaucoup dacuit ltouffement, le pige qui se referme sur les amants. Avec Tosca, Puccini brille defficacit et livre lmotion, quon pense seulement lair de lamentation du deuxime acte o Tosca chante sa douleur (Vissi darte, vissi damore), et celui de dsespoir de Cavaradossi au dbut du troisime acte (E lucevan le stelle).

Parmi les plus clbres cantatrices qui ont interprt le rle de Tosca, une place particulire doit tre rserve Maria Callas qui y dbuta le 27 aot 1942, et acheva sa carrire scnique par ce rle ftiche, le 5 juin 1965. Elle est considre comme la Tosca du sicle .

A R G U M E N T

La cantatrice Floria Tosca est la matresse du peintre Mario Cavaradossi, qui vient d'aider son ami Angelotti fuir Rome. Le chef de la police, Scarpia, joue sur la jalousie de Tosca pour piger Cavaradossi. On annonce la victoire de Napolon Marengo. Cavaradossi est arrt et Scarpia exerce un odieux chantage sur Tosca : qu'elle cde et son amant sera sauv. Tosca accepte et Scarpia donne l'ordre qu'on simule l'excution de Cavaradossi. Discrtement, il donne un contre-ordre, puis signe le sauf-conduit des deux amants. Lorsqu'il s'approche de Tosca, cette dernire le poignarde. Elle se prcipite au chteau Saint-Ange et rassure son amant : I'excution ne sera qu'un simulacre. Mais Mario est fusill et c'est un cadavre cribl de balles que Tosca retrouve. La mort de Scarpia est dcouverte. Tosca enjambe le parapet et se jette dans le vide.

Opra : Puccini Tosca | 30 janvier, 3, 6, 8, 11 fvrier 2010 20 h & 13 fvrier 2010 14 h

Genre : Drame tragique

Structure : En trois actes

Langue : En italien avec surtitres franais et anglais

Livret : Giuseppe Giacosa et Luigi Illica (daprs la pice de Victorien Sardou)

Cration : Rome, Teatro Costanzi, le 14 janvier 1900

Production : San Diego Opera

Dernire production la compagnie : mars 2002

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Sunday, January 3, 2010

La Scena Musicale lance son blogue de vido de musique quotidienne : Vido de musique classique daujourdhui

[English Version]

Montral, QC, le 1er janvier 2010 Les mlomanes peuvent maintenant trouver http://scena.org/blog/video des vidos la fois inspirantes, divertissantes et ducatives. Le blogue Vido daujourdhui propose un choix parmi les trs nombreuses vidos affiches sur Internet par lquipe de journalistes et de professionnels de La Scena Musicale/The Music Scene/La SCENA (LSM). Les vidos seront classes en gros sous les thmes suivants : chanteurs, opra et musique vocale; orchestre; musique de chambre et instrumentale solo; nouvelle musique; musique et parole; suggestions des lecteurs; et vidos amusantes.

Chaque vido affiche sera accompagne dune critique ou dun commentaire. Les visiteurs peuvent aussi se joindre la discussion. Les usagers sont invits soumettre leur vido prfre en lenvoyant par courriel todaysvideo@lascena.org. Lune de ces vidos sera choisie et publie chaque semaine.

Au sujet de La Scena Musicale

Le site Vido daujourdhui est le quatrime blogue de LSM. Le blogue partenaire, http://scena.org/blog, a rcemment t retenu parmi les 100 meilleurs Blogs for the Literati en novembre 2009.

Clbrant maintenant sa 14e anne, LSM est un organisme sans but lucratif enregistr faisant la promotion de la musique et des arts grce trois magazines, un site Web salu par de nombreux prix et dautres activits. Par lducation et linformation, il tablit des ponts entre les musiciens et artistes, la communaut artistique et les amateurs de musique et dart. Aidez-nous poursuivre notre travail en faisant un don ou en devenant bnvole.

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La Scena Musicale Launches Daily Internet Music Video Pick Blog: Todays Classical Music Video

[Version franaise]

Montreal, QC January 1, 2010 Music lovers can now head to http://scena.org/blog/video for videos guaranteed to inspire, entertain and educate. The Todays Video blog handpicks from the vast number of videos posted on the Internet by La Scena Musicale/The Music Scene/La SCENA (LSM)'s team of seasoned music journalists and professionals. Videos will loosely be featured in the following themes: Singers, opera, and vocal; Orchestra; Chamber music and solo instrumental; New music; Music and talk; Readers suggestions; and Funny videos.

Each post will include an accompanying review or commentary. Visitors can then join the discussion themselves. Visitors are invited to submit their favourite video by emailing it to todaysvideo@lascena.org. One of these videos will be chosen for publication each week.

About La Scena Musicale

The Today's Video site is LSM's fourth blog. Its partner blog, http://scena.org/blog, was recently honoured as one of the Top 100 Sites for Literati in November 2009.

Now celebrating its 14th year, LSM is a registered non-profit charity promoting music and the arts through three magazines, a multiple-award winning website, and other activities. It connects musicians/artists, the arts community and music/art lovers together through education and information. Help us continue our work with a donation and by volunteering.

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Friday, January 1, 2010

Franz Welser-Mst will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra New Years Concert 2011

CLEVELAND, January 1, 2010 - The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra announced today that Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Mst will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra New Years concert on January 1, 2011. Through international broadcast, the concert is the largest world-wide event in classical music reaching over a billion people annually through radio and television in 72 countries. The concert is broadcast on PBSs Great Performances in the United States.

The Vienna Philharmonics tradition of the New Years program began in 1939 to showcase Viennese musical culture at the highest level, and also to send the world a New Year's greeting in the spirit of hope, friendship and peace. The concerts take place in the Musikverein in Vienna.

Chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Clemens Hellsberg stated, With the invitation to Franz Welser-Mst to conduct our New Years Concert in 2011, the Vienna Philharmonic appreciates their common artistic work in both opera and concert, which has continuously grown in musical understanding and is mutually fulfilling. Franz Welser-Mst added, It is truly a special pleasure and honor to be invited by the Vienna Philharmonic to conduct in 2011.

Franz Welser-Mst is in his eighth year as Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra. His long-term commitment extends to the Orchestras centennial in 2018. Concurrently with his post in Cleveland, Mr. Welser-Mst will become General Music Director of the Vienna State Opera in the fall of 2010. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra recruits its musicians from the Vienna State Opera Orchestra.

Franz Welser-Mst first collaborated with Vienna State Opera in 1987. His debut was in Rossinis The Italian Girl in Algiers. In September 2003, he substituted last minute and without any rehearsal, in a performance of Wagners Tristan and Isolde. In the summer of 2009, Franz Welser-Mst conducted concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival, the BBC Proms and the Lucerne Festival. At the Vienna State Opera, he has recently conducted new productions of Richard Strausss Arabella and Wagners Ring Cycle.

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Welcome the World: A Choral Gala Feb 9, 2010

The 120 voices of four of Canada's top choral ensembles (Chor Leoni Men's Choir, Elektra Women's Choir, musica intima vocal ensemble, and Vancouver Chamber Choir) join forces to welcome all nations and peoples, presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad. The distinctive voices of these choirs will resound as they celebrate the ability of song to bridge cultures while highlighting the uniqueness of the world's many tongues. Planned as a choral showcase and a linguists' delight, Welcome the World: A Choral Gala will feature each ensemble singing in a multitude of languages while celebrating the universal power of music to make us one.

Join us on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 (7:30 pm) at St. Andrew's Wesley Church, 1022 Nelson St., Vancouver. Tickets through Ticketmaster 604.280.3311. All seats $35, general admission.
information link:
http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/cultural-festivals-and-events/event-listings/welcome-the-world--a-choral-gala_70824WZ.html

St. Andrew's-Wesley is on the #22 bus line (there are bus stops on either side of the street either right at the venue or kitty-corner to it, depending on the direction of approach) and a short three block walk (slightly) uphill from the Burrard St Skytrain station. Exit the station and turn right, or board the #22 bus in front of the station and travel two stops.

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Disney Jazz Celebration takes the Stage in February

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla Disneys Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort will heat up from February 18 20, 2010 as student ensembles take the stage for a three-day festival. The event will honor the talents of middle and high school jazz ensembles from across the nation as they compete for top honors, interact with renowned jazz artists, learn from top jazz educators and experience exciting jam sessions.

This festival is truly a celebration of all things Jazz. These talented young musicians will have the opportunity to mix and mingle with world renowned Jazz musicians and educators, said Tim Hill, director of Disney Special Programs.

Officially endorsed by MENC: the National Association for Music Education, Disney Jazz Celebration is supported by Conn-Selmer, Inc. and their family of fine instruments. Vincent Bach, Selmer, King, Ludwig Musser and Glaesel are the official instruments of the event. The festival is open to middle and high school vocal and instrumental jazz ensembles. The competitive performance weekend includes a Welcome Gathering, post-performance clinics with renowned jazz educators, Master Classes with Conn-Selmer, Inc. clinicians, conversations with guest performers, and an inspiring awards ceremony.

Disney Jazz Celebration Master Classes are special one-hour presentations inside a Disney Theme Park conducted by distinguished music educators and industry leaders focusing on students artistic achievement, successful career skills, and the tools for performance excellence. Selected students from participating ensembles will have the opportunity to perform with the Disney Jazz Celebration Clinicians and Guest Performers in a structured and educational Jam Session experience.

The Conn-Selmer, Inc. renowned instrumental jazz clinicians include:

  • Butch Miles, drummer for the world-famous Count Basie Orchestra and known for his swinging big band style and techniques.
  • Chris Vadala, Director of Jazz Studies and Saxophone Professor at the University of Maryland and standout woodwind artist with the Chuck Mangione Quartet.
  • Derrick Gardner, founder of The Jazz Prophets and currently Assistant Professor of jazz trumpet at Michigan State University College of Music.

The instrumental adjudicators include:

  • Dr. Willie L. Hill Jr., director of the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst
  • Fred Irby, III, Professor of Music at Howard University in Washington, DC and Director of the internationally acclaimed Howard University Jazz Ensemble.
  • Dianthe "Dee" Spencer, Professor of Music in the School of Music and Dance at San Francisco State University where she founded the jazz studies undergraduate degree program in 1990.

The vocal jazz clinicians/adjudicators include:

  • Jennifer Barnes, highly sought-after studio vocalist, live performer, educator, clinician and arranger.
  • Steve Zegree, a Bobby McFerrin Professor of Jazz at Western Michigan University and director of Gold Company, an internationally recognized jazz vocal ensemble.
  • Connaitre Miller, Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Jazz Vocal Studies at Howard University in Washington, DC and director of the award winning vocal jazz ensemble "Afro Blue".

The festival will also include performances and conversations by notable rising Conn-Selmer, Inc. artists:

  • Jessy J, whose debut jazz saxophone album Tequila Moon earned her such accolades as Radio and Records "Debut Artist of The Year" and contemporary jazz song of the year by R&R and Billboard.
  • Dominick Farinacci, a graduate of The Juilliard School and recipient of the International New Star Award in Japan for his jazz trumpet recordings.
  • Saunders Sermons, who began playing the trombone at the age of 11 and now can be heard on Jay Z's single "The Roc Boys" and Fantasia's single "Two Weeks Notice".
  • Jared Schonig, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and winner of 4 Downbeat Student Music Awards. He has performed with jazz artists such as Wynton Marsalis, Fred Hersch, Wycliffe Gordon, and many others.

For more information on the Disney Jazz Celebration visit www.disneyjazzcelebration.com or call toll-free 1-800-603-0552.

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Ubiquity to Release: Bei Bei & Shawn Lee - Into the Wind (CD X LP)

WORLDWIDE RELEASE ON JANUARY 26, 2010

Into the Wind by Guzheng performer/composer Bei Bei He and Ubiquity producer Shawn Lee marries a unique blend of ancient tradition with studio trickery. This uplifting, genre-bending sound clash, recalls the afro centric harping of Dorothy Ashby and hypnotic spiritual jazz of Alice Coltrane. With Lee adding equal doses of hip hop, electric jazz, and soul sensibility to the backing tracks, the captivating sound of Bei Beis Guzheng comes alive on peaceful mellow joints as much as it does on Kung-Fu flavored funk tunes.

Visit www.ubiquityrecords.com/press for more information, high resolution photos, album covers and sound samples. For additional information, promotional opportunities or a copy of this album, please call (949) 764-9012 ext. 109 or email meza@ubiquityrecords.com


BEI BEI & SHAWN LEE - INTO THE WIND (UR263)


Album Snippets:

01. Into The Wind
02. Hot Thursday
03. East
04. Make Me Stronger feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow
05. Little Sunrise
06. Bei's Bossa
07. Whiskey Waltz
08. Willingness feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow
09. The Tiger

10. The Master Room
11. The Ambush
12. The Blue Grotto


Into the Wind by Guzheng performer/composer Bei Bei He and Ubiquity producer Shawn Lee marries a unique blend of ancient tradition with studio trickery. This uplifting, genre-bending sound clash, recalls the afro centric harping of Dorothy Ashby and hypnotic spiritual jazz of Alice Coltrane. With Lee adding equal doses of hip hop, electric jazz, and soul sensibility to the backing tracks, the captivating sound of Bei Beis Guzheng comes alive on peaceful mellow joints as much as it does on Kung-Fu flavored funk tunes.

Falling in love with the 5 foot tall x 1 foot wide 21-stringed Chinese instrument at first sight, Bei Bei began playing at the age of seven. While studying the Guzheng at a music conservatory in Hong Kong in 2002, Bei Bei developed an interest in jazz and groove-based music and hoped to make those styles with her instrument one day. Eight years later, now residing in Southern California, Bei Bei was contacted by Shawn Lee about making a record in the way shed previously dreamed of, and she jumped at the opportunity.

These days its not uncommon for artists to swap tracks and build tunes over the internet. But, in this case, the artists had to drop their guards, throw caution to the wind, and learn about each others very different crafts as they went. Meeting only once, in person, the two emailed and swapped files for about a year to complete the record.

Shawn was inspired by some of the traditional music that I play, she explains. It took both of us being committed, fully self-expressed, inspired, connected to make this album happen.

The initial burst of inspiration led to the birth of early pieces like Make Me Stronger and Beis Bossa, which were new creations based on ancient tunes. The label was so excited by these two that they shared them with label mates and this is how Georgia Anne Muldrow ended up singing on the entrancing Make Me Stronger, and later on Willingness.

Ubiquity released a limited edition 10 EP, featuring tracks from the album, to positive acclaim from Berlin to Los Angeles, with KCRWs Garth Trinidad calling the tracks A ray of light in my world, and BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbes saying Love love love this. At time of press Lee and Bei Bei were discussing plans for a few special live shows.

The Guzheng is over 2000 years old and belongs to the Asian long zither family. It was used in both folk and court music in the ancient China. Bei Bei started received her professional musical training at the Central University of Nationalities in Beijing, China and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in Hong Kong. She is a multi-award winner of many national and international awards. As a studio musician, she recorded for Sci-fi Channels Battlestar Galactica. As a composer, she composed music and performed for the China Central TV documentary series Dun Huang. She released her debut album Quiet Your Mind And Listen in 2006 and her collaborative album Heart of China, with Richard Horowtiz, in 2008. She is the director of Lotus Bud Gu Zheng Studio in Orange County, CA, where she teaches students to play and perform.

For Fans of: Cinematic Orchestra, Alice Coltrane, Dorothy Ashby, Dap Tones, El Michels Affair, Wu-Tang


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Academy of Music Welcomes Sting with the Philadelphia Orchestra Following a Surge of Classical Acclaim

MUSIC WORLDS COLLIDE TO EMBRACE HIS LATEST ALBUM

Sting to headline anniversary concert, performing a collection of greatest hits from the Police and his solo career

Tenor Sensation Juan Diego Flrez to perform classical masterpieces under the baton of Rafael Frhbeck de Burgos

Anniversary Ball follows at the Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue

Sting
Photo Credit: Tony Molina

Philadelphia, December 28, 2009 Academy of Music officials are honored to soon present world-renowned singer/composer Sting in an extraordinary classical setting, as his diverse audience embraces the classical influences of his youth with his newly certified Gold album, If on a Winter's Night...

As the headline attraction of the spectacular Academy of Music 153rd Anniversary Concert on Saturday, January 30, 2010, in performance with The Philadelphia Orchestra and his own quartet of musicians conducted by David Hartley, Sting will perform in Philadelphia with an abundance of fresh critical and popular acclaim. Watching his album become a classical crossover sensation since debuting at #1 on Billboard's Classical and Seasonal charts at the start of the holiday season, the Academy is especially proud to welcome Sting with such comfortable surroundings unique to the intermingling genres that have defined his remarkable career for nearly four decades.

We are especially thrilled to be hosting Sting for the annual Concert and Ball, said Academy of Music President Joanna McNeil Lewis. The Academy has a history filled with performers representing an impressive and diverse array of music. Sting is the epitome of that representation as his talent spans across many genres, and he continues to explore new possibilities. Now the public will have an opportunity to see him perform with our Philadelphia Orchestra, one of the premier orchestras in the world.

The first half of the program will showcase Rafael Frhbeck de Burgos, chief conductor and artistic director of the Dresden Philharmonic, leading The Philadelphia Orchestra in a program of masterpieces featuring guest tenor Juan Diego Flrez, a thrilling performer famous for his high C's. In 2008, Flrez became the first soloist to perform an encore at the Metropolitan Opera since Luciano Pavarotti in 1994. In February, Flrez will reprise his headline-grabbing Metropolitan Opera performance as Tonio in La Fille du Rgiment.

Sting will be backed by the Orchestra and a versatile quartet comprised of Dominic Miller on guitar, David Sancious on piano, Vinnie Colaiuta on drums, and Christian McBride on bass, performing notable songs from the Police repertoire and his solo career, in original orchestrations.

Sting first became interested in classical music while it permeated his home as a child and has always carried that music with him throughout his enduring career.

I grew up listening to classical music, and remember being under the piano while my mother played Beethoven sonatas in our house, says Sting. I always strive to challenge myself, and music allows me to constantly learn new things.

The gala champagne dinner and ball at the Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue hotel follows the concert. Eight dance orchestras will be located throughout the facility. The gala is being chaired by Mrs. Fred L. Hudson III and Mr. Joseph A. Frick. For gala information, call the Academy of Music Restoration Fund Office at 215.893.1940.

This concert and ball are sponsored by CIGNA, Joe and Amy Frick, Ambassador David F. and Constance B. Girard-diCarlo, Independence Blue Cross, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, PNC, and Wachovia, A Wells Fargo Company.

For complete information on the artists and this event, please access the pdf document here.

ACADEMY OF MUSIC 153rd ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
January 30, 2010, at 7:30 PM - Saturday evening - Academy of Music

The Philadelphia Orchestra
Rafael Frhbeck de Burgos, conductor
Juan Diego Flrez, tenor

With special guest Sting
David Hartley, conductor
Dominic Miller, guitar
David Sancious, piano
Christian McBride, bass
Vinnie Colaiuta, drums

Concert Program includes:
Mozart: Overture to
The Marriage of Figaro
Donizetti: "Ah! mes amis," from The Daughter of the Regiment
Donizetti: "Una furtive lagrima," from The Elixir of Love
Gimnez: Intermezzo, from The Wedding of Luis Alonso

Sting: Sting with The Philadelphia Orchestra and his band, performing well-known songs from both the Police and his solo repertoire

This concert will be performed without an intermission.
This concert and ball are sponsored by CIGNA, Joe and Amy Frick, Ambassador David F. and Constance B. Girard-diCarlo, Independence Blue Cross, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, PNC, and Wachovia, A Wells Fargo Company.
Members of The Philadelphia Orchestra are graciously donating their services for this concert in support of the Musicians' Pension Fund.

Gala tickets are available. For information, please call the Academy of Music Restoration Fund Office at 215.893.1940.

Concert-only tickets are available in the Academy of Music's Amphitheatre for $200. Please call 215.893.1999 or visit www.philorch.org/academyofmusic.

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Brana Records Chopin Anniversary Edition

BRANA RECORDS COLLECTION VOLUME 3

1st March 2010 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fryderyk Chopin. In celebration of this anniversary Brana Records is proud to present Brana Records Collection Volume 3 featuring esteemed pianist Felicja Blumental.

This box set features three CDs of outstanding composition and performance and is a must-have collection for all music lovers.

CD 1 BR0010 Chopin: Piano Concerto in F minor Op 21 plus Chopin Scherzos Nos 1, 2, 3 and 4

CD 2 BR0017 Chopin: 17 Waltzes

CD 3 BR0018 Chopin: 8 Waltzes, 5 Nocturnes and 4 Polonaises

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Reviews for Brana Records

ĶBlumentals playing is notable for its flowing clarity while remaining authoritativeĶ

ĶHer Chopin is full of character, cavalier sometimes perhaps, but with superb control of rubato coupled with a fine sense of humour and a sparkle in the eye - a potent combinationĶ

ĶRubinstein was a pearl, Felicja also!...

ĶHer Chopin is full of character, cavalier sometimes perhaps, but with superb control of rubato coupled with a fine sense of humour and a sparkle in the eye - a potent combinationĶ.

ĶShe can turn in a scale of breathtaking accuracy and delicacy that reminds me of Sviatoslav RichterĶ.

ĶBlumenthal gives a big, masterful performance of the Tchaikovsky, and on the whole handles the lyrical elements with tasteful feelingĶ [Gramophone]

ĶThis is Chopin playing of the highest orderĶ..these performances positively fizz with character, wit and vitality. Felicja Blumental is at least as convincing as (and perhaps stylistically closest to) Rubinsteins last set on RCAĶ [MusicWeb]










About Brana Records


Brana Records is dedicated to the restoration of the wonderful rare recordings by the Polish/Brazilian pianist, Felicja Blumental. In addition to recording well known masterpieces such as the piano concertos of Grieg and Rachmaninoff, Felicja Blumental was a champion of lesser known early 19th century piano works by composers such as Clementi, Hoffmeister, Ries, Kuhlau, Czerny and solo piano music by Spanish and Portuguese Baroque composers as well as being a champion of the music of Chopin.

Many of these recordings are now released on Brana Records and all CD covers feature the fine art prints of Felicja Blumental's husband, Markus Mizne. http://www.markusmizne.com/

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Lancement de la 6e dition du Coffret et Lecture de Lettres d'Amour au TNM

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6e DITION DE MILLE MOTS DAMOUR

Montral, le samedi 26 dcembre 2009 Pour la sortie de la 6e dition du coffret Mille mots damour, la Fondation Les Impatients repoussent les frontires. Cette dition, comprenant entre autres des lettres de Ginette Reno, Jacques Attali, Alexandre Despatie, Claudine Mercier, Yves Duteil et un indit de Marcel Pagnol, comptera dans son aventure la participation du Rseau communautaire, en collaboration avec lOffice rgional de Sant Sud-Est Inc/ South Eastman Regional Health Authority, de la province du Manitoba ainsi que de quelques personnalits du monde du sport afin de faire un clin dil aux Jeux Olympiques de Vancouver 2010.

Deux vnements sajoutent la longue liste des activits de la Fondation Les Impatients. Premirement, le mardi 19 janvier lors dun 5 7, aura lieu le lancement de la 6e dition du coffret en compagnie de plusieurs artistes y ayant particip. Deuximement, une soire de lecture de lettres damour se tiendra au TNM le lundi 8 fvrier 19h avec Anne-Marie Cadieux, Louis Champagne, Clmence DesRochers, Monique Giroux, James Hyndman, Jean Marchand, Martine St. Clair et Catherine Trudeau. Des chanteurs de lOpra de Montral assureront le volet musical de cet vnement unique.

Le coffret Mille mots damour est compos de lettres offertes par des crivains, des artistes, des mdecins, des Impatients, des journalistes et des gens du grand public. Les lettres du grand public proviennent de diffrents concours men par plusieurs parrains et marraines dont Monique Giroux (Espace Musique), Joel Lebigot (Premire Chane), Roxanne St-Gelais ( V Tl ) ainsi que Valrie Sirois et Jean-Franois Benot (Cit Rock Dtente) et Jeanette Kelly (CBC) qui invitent les auditeurs, lors de leur mission quotidienne, y participer.

Mille mots damour a pour but de recueillir des fonds pour permettre aux Impatients de poursuivre sa double mission qui est doffrir un lieu dexpression artistique et thrapeutique aux personnes souffrant de problmes de sant mentale et de favoriser les changes avec la communaut par la diffusion de leurs ralisations.

Au-del de limpact financier de lvnement, il sagit pour le centre Les Impatients de sensibiliser le grand public aux ralits des personnes connaissant des problmes de sant mentale, qui touchent une personne sur cinq au Qubec.

Le coffret sera en vente ds janvier 2010 dans tous les Renaud-Bray du Qubec ainsi qu la Fondation Les Impatients ( 100, rue Sherbooke est, 4e tage ) au montant de 39,95$.

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Rentre Montralaise de Martine St-Clair

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le mercredi 24 et vendredi 26 fvrier 2010

dans la cadre du Festival Montral en Lumire

Montral, le samedi 26 dcembre 2009 Cest dans le cadre du festival Montral en Lumire 2010 que Martine St-Clair fera son retour sur la scne montralaise les 24 et 26 fvrier prochain 20h la salle de spectacle du Ges .

lintrieur de ce spectacle intitul Entre vous et moi, Martine invitera les spectateurs dans un voyage travers ses 25 annes de carrire dans une formule toute nouvelle. A cette occasion, elle sera accompagne dAlexis Charrier (chef dorchestre et guitariste), de Franois Morin (piano) et de Patrick Dugas (percussions). Martine chantera galement quelques inspirations qui nous conduirons de Cat Stevens Edith Piaf.

Une chanson indite de Gilbert Bcaud Chaque fois que jaime sera prsente au public.

Ce concert, o les lettres damour seront lhonneur, sera ddi la Fondation Les Impatients qui est un lieu de cration destin aux personnes souffrant de problmes de sant mentale. En effet, les gens du public seront invits offrir Martine leurs lettres damour qui se retrouveront peut-tre du coup au cur de lvnement, lues sur la scne.

Martine St-Clair lanait en aot dernier son coffret Entre vous et moi. Regroupant 35 chansons, ce recueil permet de renouer avec quelques-unes des chansons qui ont marqu et qui ont conquis un immense public. videmment, les chansons comme Il y a de lamour dans lair, Ce soir lamour est dans tes yeux et Lavez, Lavez sy retrouvent mais Entre vous et moi comprend galement quelques pices indites, aussi une nouvelle cration Qui pourrait mieux taimer que moi, ralise en compagnie de Fred St-Gelais.

Pour rservation : Ges Centre de crativit / 1200, rue de Bleury

Prix : 32,50$ + taxes

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florence k. heureuse de poursuivre son association avec le Mondial des cultures

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Drummondville, le samedi 26 dcembre 2009

Association avec Florence K.

Le Mondial des Cultures clbrera sa 29e dition du 8 au 18 juillet 2010. Florence K., qui en tait sa premire anne comme porte-parole en 2009, est heureuse de poursuivre son association avec lvnement, lquipe et les bnvoles.

Florence K. a vcu son premier festival lan pass et y a dcouvert la fois les facettes internationales et multiculturelles, mais aussi le cur de lvnement, les artistes trangers et le partage dont ils font preuve lors de leur visite Drummondville. Lintrt de Florence K. pour les diffrentes cultures, son ouverture sur le monde et son dsir de faire de belles dcouvertes se marient naturellement avec les valeurs et la mission du Mondial.

Je suis trs heureux que Florence K. poursuive son association avec nous puisquelle reflte exactement toute la diversit propose par lvnement. Son grand talent artistique, sa jeunesse, sa versatilit et surtout, sa passion pour les cultures des divers peuples du monde en font une porte-parole toute dsigne pour le Mondial. , de dire Alexandre Cusson, prsident du conseil dadministration.

Ce dernier poursuit : Notre souhait pour lavenir tait bien sr que Florence K. sassocie avec le Mondial jusquau 30e anniversaire en 2011. Je suis trs heureux dannoncer aujourdhui quelle sera notre porte-parole pour les festivits entourant cette dition anniversaire. Nous sommes trs choys puisque Florence K. a galement accept de prsenter un spectacle exclusif lors de cette dition 30e anniversaire qui sannonce haute en couleurs.

Ensembles folkloriques prsents en 2010

Yves Parenteau, directeur administratif et relations internationales est dores et dj heureux dannoncer que des discussions sont bien entames avec plusieurs ensembles folkloriques en vue de la 29e dition. LEnsemble Arcadanse de St-Marcel en France, la compagnie de danse Ziemia Myslenicka Song and Dance Group de Myslenice en Pologne et The Students Folk Ensemble Traditii de lUniversit des sciences et de mdecine vtrinaire de Cluj-Napoca en Roumanie ont dj confirm leur participation. De bonnes nouvelles qui laissent entrevoir un Mondial haut en mtissage culturel. Au total, une quinzaine densembles folkloriques participeront lvnement en 2010.

Macaron en prvente pour Nol

Le macaron, droit dentre pour les 10 jours de festivits, est dj disponible en prvente au cot de 26,00$ taxes incluses comparativement 33,00$ taxes incluses au prix rgulier. Un rabais de 7,00$. Contactez la billetterie du Centre culturel de Drummondville au 1-800-265-5412 pour loffrir en cadeau de Nol.

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Victoria Symphony kicks off the New Year with an extravaganza of music, song and dance.

Victoria, BC On January 1, at the Royal Theatre, the Victoria Symphony presents A Viennese New Years with Maestro Brian Jackson, Ballet Victoria and guest soloists. This new production is inspired by the worldwide Viennese tradition of lively and nostalgic melodies and beautiful waltzes.

Every year over 1 billion people worldwide enjoy the televised version of this extremely popular annual New Years Day concert performed by the Vienna Philharmonics Orchestra. In this grand tradition, the Victoria Symphony presents a live production of this beloved tradition inspired by Johan Strauss and the beautiful city of Vienna. Conducted by Maestro Brian Jackson, this extravaganza of music, song and dance includes the universally popular and beloved On the Beautiful Blue Danube, the favourite Chez Maxims from The Merry Widow and the colourful Champagne Polka with performances by Mark DuBois, Melanie Krueger and Ballet Victoria.

Brian Jackson, Principal Pops Conductor of the Victoria Symphony since 1994, has performed all the major symphonic and choral literature as well as being recognized as a champion of Canadian composers. Since becoming the youngest Music Director in Canada (Peterborough Symphony) at age 25, Jackson has conducted all the major Canadian orchestras and has led orchestras in the UK, Europe, US and S. America.

Mark DuBois, tenor, is universally acclaimed for his outstanding lyric tenor voice and his artistry and musicianship in performance. Mr. DuBois is featured on several commercial recordings and television specials, the most recent of which is a Juno-nominated recording Chansons Damore with pianist Gloria Saarinen.

Melanie Krueger, soprano, made her professional operatic debut in the Czech premiere of Robert Wards The Crucible. This past season she toured with the Prague Chamber Operas production of Xerxes, singing the role of Atalanta in theatres all around Germany.

Ballet Victoria came together in 2002 and during the fall of 2007 Ballet Victoria welcomed Paul Destrooper as artistic director. In addition to creativity, vision, and a renewed sense of enthusiasm, Destrooper brought two decades of experience as a successful international dancer and choreographer on the world stage.

The Victoria Symphony is Vancouver Islands largest and most active arts organization performing for more than 125,000 people each year, including 10,000 schoolchildren. Showcasing the outstanding talents of its musicians and guest artists, the Victoria Symphonys 2009-2010 season offers a diverse and exciting line-up of over 50 concerts led by its vibrant Music Director Tania Miller.

The Victoria Symphony Box Office will be closed December 23 to January 3.

To purchase tickets, please contact the Royal Theatre Box Office.

A Viennese New Years

January 1 at 2:30pm, Royal Theatre

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Tickets starting $30 to $75.

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The Concert of Next Year is Almost Here!

Winnipeg, MB December 23, 2009 Tickets are going fast for 2010: The Concert! This unique performance will showcase 17 homegrown talents with their own fabulous flair everything from jazz, folk and rock to French funk, Japanese drums, ballet, Ukrainian and contemporary dance to Baroque and modern works! Hosted by Monique LaCoste and Wab Kinew, this concert will truly be a kaleidoscope of culture!

All of Winnipeg is invited to celebrate the incredible year ahead by attending 2010: The Concert. This event, featuring a diverse and impressive array of talent, will leave Winnipeggers full of prairie pride on Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 8:10 p.m. at the Centennial Concert Hall. This concert, presented by The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO), Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada 2010, and Manitoba Homecoming 2010, is sure to attract people to hear their favourites, and give everyone something new to love.

The celebration is in honour of Winnipegs recent designation as Cultural Capital of Canada 2010 by The Department of Canadian Heritage, and will also celebrate the much anticipated arrival of Manitoba Homecoming 2010.

The full roster of artists performing at 2010: The Concert includes (in alphabetical order):

  • Steve Bell
  • D.Rangers
  • Eagle & Hawk
  • Fubuki Daiko
  • Monica Huisman
  • James Keelaghan
  • Steve & Anna-Lisa Kirby Jazz Quintet
  • Momentum Aerial
  • Daniel ROA
  • Stacey Nattrass
  • Sierra Noble
  • Camerata Nova
  • Fred Penner
  • Royal Winnipeg Ballet
  • Rusalka Ukrainian Dance Ensemble
  • The School of Contemporary Dancers
  • Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

Tickets are on sale now for $20.10 (plus applicable fees) for all reserved seating. To purchase tickets, please call the WSO Box Office at 949-3999; go to www.wso.ca; call Ticketmaster at 780-3333 or go to www.ticketmaster.ca.

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Dan Perjovschi: Late News

Provocative artist brings his social commentary to the ROM. Watch the artist at work from February 13 to 22 only.

The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents the new art installation, Dan Perjovschi: Late News, beginning on February 22, 2010. Distinguished in the world of contemporary art, Dan Perjovschi will draw his brilliant and irreverent cartoons directly onto the dramatic soaring walls of the Roloff Beny Gallery, on Level 4 of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the ROM. Dan Perjovschi: Late News is the artists first solo exhibition in Canada.

Between February 13th and 22nd, Perjovschi will spend ten days in residence at the Museum, creating his unique site-specific line drawings while interacting with Museum visitors. This original work will remain on display until summer 2010.

Responding to the troubled world economy, rapid social change and political upheavals, the work of Dan Perjovschi provides a perceptive and often cheeky examination of the things that keep us awake at night. We are thrilled to invite him to the ROM, to watch him in action, and to be left with an original work of art that serves as an honest snapshot of todays world, said William Thorsell, ROM Director and CEO.

About Dan Perjovschi: Late News:

The ICC has invited Perjovschi to create a new site-specific installation for the ROM, where from February 13 to February 22, 2010, the artist will transform the walls of the Roloff Beny Gallery. While working in the gallery, Perjovschi will immerse himself in local media, surveying news from local and international newspapers, internet, TV and radio, which will provide the inspiration for his work.

Perjovschis acclaimed exhibitions are always a personal response to the social and political atmosphere, and the geographic location, in which they are created. The works will be created during public hours, allowing Museum visitors to observe the creation in progress, making the drawing project a performance in itself. As the work will be painted over at the conclusion of the exhibition period, the ICC will produce a free publication (available in the gallery in the spring) that will be the record of the Late News installation.

About Dan Perjovschi:

Romanian-born Dan Perjovschi is an artist who mixes drawing, cartoon and graffiti in artistic pieces drawn directly on the walls of European and American museums and contemporary art spaces. These drawings both witty and incisive comment on current political, social or cultural issues or events. His stark style of line drawing allows him to condense the conflicts and dilemmas of the world into a rapid-response commentary that is both political and honest.

Perjovschi garnered international attention at the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), where he covered the floor of the Romanian Pavillion with drawings and political graffiti about life in the post-Communist era. At the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007) his drawings were included in the main International Exhibition. He has had solo and group exhibitions at the Tate Modern (London) and Tate Liverpool, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Kunsthalle Basel, Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the Moscow Biennale.

Formally trained as a still-life painter in a Soviet-style art academy in Romania, Perjovschi was encouraged to question the practicality of his classical grounding when the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauescu collapsed in 1989. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent rise of the European Union, Eastern Europe has seen a shift in its regional and national identities. This new political reality is fertile ground for Perjovschis tongue-in-cheek yet pointed observations, which have been sharpened by his background in journalism. Since 1991, Perjovschi has served as political illustrator and art director for the Bucharest-based independent magazine Revista 22, the first political journal founded in Romania after the fall of the Ceauescu regime.

Perjovschis artistic practice has been influenced by artists of the 1960s and 1970s, newspaper cartoonists, the international art scene, and mainly by the media. In order to reach more people with his satirical thoughts on society, Perjovschi opted for the popular language of political cartoons. Inspiration for his drawings comes from a multitude of sources: conversations, rumours, newspaper articles, gossip, television, and global or local events. The illustrations are simple black marker line drawings, sometimes accompanied with succinct wordplay or punch line captions. With just a few strokes, Perjovschi sums up the current state of affairs with regard to religion, terror, nationalism or consumerism. The results are a hybrid of graffiti and activism with the best qualities of a good newspaper cartoon.

Institute for Contemporary Culture

The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) plays a vital role at the ROM, a museum whose collections embrace many civilizations through the ages. As the ROM documents history, the ICC is the ROMs window on contemporary society, exploring current cultural issues through exhibitions of art, lectures, film series, and informal gatherings. The ROMs collections provide context and depth to the contemporary issues addressed by participants in ICC events from around the world. In this, and many other ways, the ICC serves as a catalyst for stimulating public conversations. For more information on the ICC, visit www.rom.on.ca/about/icc.

Other information:

A public talk featuring Dan Perjovschi will be presented near the end of his residency at the ICC. Details will be announced later at www.rom.on.ca/icc

Admission to Dan Perjovschi: Late News is included in general Museum admission: Adults: $22; Students and Seniors with ID: $19; Children (4 to 14 years) $15; Children 3 & under are free. Half Price Friday Nights, presented by Sun Life Financial, take place from 4:30 pm to 9:30 pm. To book a group of ten or more and for more information on private guided tours or group menu, please call ROM Group Sales at 416.586.5889 or email groupsales@rom.on.ca.

Dan Perjovschi: Late News is organized by the Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, in association with Lombard-Freid Projects, New York.

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Top 10 most memorable moments at the National Arts Centre in 2009

(Ottawa, Canada) In addition to celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2009, the National Arts Centre (NAC) featured many memorable moments during the past 12 months. Here is a list of the top 10 NAC highlights of this remarkable year:

1) Prime Minister Stephen Harpers surprise performance of the Beatles With a Little Help from my Friends with Yo Yo Ma at the NACs Fall Gala on October 3. The performance generates some of the highest media coverage in the NACs history with hundreds of media mentions nationally and internationally, and becomes the number one You Tube video viewed in Canada and number five in the world.

2) Leonard Cohen is a very hot ticket when he performs to a full house at the National Arts Centre for two nights in May during his successful North American tour.

3) BC Scene presents 600 artists from British Columbia in the nations capital during a 13-day festival. Also in 2009: the NAC produces the Governor Generals Performing Arts Awards, co-presents the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, and co-produces the Canada Dance Festival.

4) Resurrection of the NACs English Theatre Company under the direction of Peter Hinton, the NACs English Theatre Artistic Director. The company launched with a sold-out run of A Christmas Carol.

5) Maestro Pinchas Zukerman conducts the National Arts Centre Orchestra in a performance of Mahlers Symphony No. 1 Titan for its 40th anniversary concert on October 8. He also led the 11th edition of the NAC Summer Music Institute, that brought 90 students from seven Canadian provinces and 12 other countries to study with 24 world renowned faculty members.

6) Wajdi Mouawad, the NACs French Artistic Director, is named Associate Artist of the prestigious Avignon Theatre Festival in France, where he presents three of his plays: Littoral, Incendies, and Forts in a 11-hour performance from dusk till dawn.

7) Three Canadian composers, Ana Sokolovic, Peter Paul Koprowski, and John Estacio each win $75,000 from the NAC to compose music for the National Arts Centres Orchestra.

8) The National Arts Centre hosts a birthday party to celebrate the Canadian Music Centres 50th anniversary with a free concert of Canadian music in Southam Hall.

9) In September, Cathy Levy, the NACs acclaimed Dance producer, brings rising star Hofesh Shechter a British-based, Israeli-born dancer, composer, and musician to the NAC. Earlier on June 2, Levy produces an elegant 40th anniversary show that blends classical music, dance and theatre, hosted by playwright Michel Marc Bouchard and Veronica Tennant (who danced in the first NAC performance back in 1969).

10) Kevin Loring, the NACs playwright in residence, wins the Governor Generals Literary Award for Drama for Where the Blood Mixes. The play will be presented as part of the NAC English Theatre 40th anniversary season.

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New York Festival of Song and Juilliard Vocal Arts Present Killer B's - American Song from Amy Beach to the Beach Boys


Free Concert, Featuring music of Irving Berlin, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, The Bobs, Marc Blitzstein, Eubie Blake, William Bolcom, and many others

NYFOS@Juilliard: Fifth Annual Collaboration with Award-winning Students in
The Department of Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School,
Wednesday January 13 at Peter Jay Sharp Theater

New York Festival of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org), who redefined the song recital with daring and dramatic programming (The New Yorker), presents its fifth annual program with the Department of Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School on Wednesday January 13, 2010 at 8 PM, Killer BsAmerican Song From Amy Beach to the Beach Boys. NYFOS@Juilliard celebrates the creative energy and superlative vocal talent of tomorrows brightest stars, building on NYFOSs distinctive programming and performing style. Alumni of the joint program have already begun to participate in NYFOSs mainstage concerts alongside more seasoned artists, while also taking their place in opera houses and concert halls around the world.

Tickets for the event, at Juilliards Peter Jay Sharp Theater, are free and available beginning Monday, January 4 at The Juilliard School box office (in person only), 155 West 65th Street in Manhattan. Box office hours are 11 AM to 6 PM Monday-Friday: 212-721-6500.

NYFOS Directors Steven Blier and Michael Barrett are enthusiastic about the NYFOS/Juilliard collaboration: We are having a wonderful experience working on this crazy, eclectic program. The students are all deeply involved, researching new songs, looking for spoken material as a bridge between numbers (all by authors whose names begin with the letter B), suggesting repertoire, discussing program order, and writing program notes. They have responded with tremendous creativity, and best of all, theyre teaching us a thing or two as they chart a new, surprising path.

The artists in Killer Bs will be Catherine Hancock and Meredith Lustig, sopranos; Carla Jablonski and Naomi OConnell, mezzo-sopranos; Carlton Ford and Timothy McDevitt, baritones; Adrian Rosas, bass-baritone; and New York Festival of Song directors Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, pianists/hosts. Choreography is by Jeanne Slater.

NYFOSs upcoming concerts Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center include: The Voluptuous Muse (February 16 and 18) a survey of the last vestiges of lush tonality and decadent Romanticism at the dawn of the 20th century; and The Newest Deal (May 4 and 6) featuring recent American works, including the premiere of the Harold Meltzer song cycle Beautiful Ohio*, created for and performed by tenor Paul Appleby. In March, NYFOS will offer The Sweetest Path, a program celebrating the first great flowering of French art song; it is the second annual collaboration between NYFOS and the Caramoor Vocal Rising Stars program, and it will have two performances: March 13 in the Music Room at Caramoor, and March 16 at Merkin Hall.

Program for Killer Bs:

THE EARLY YEARS
Let Me Sing and Im Happy Irving Berlin
Jean Harry Burleigh
When Roses Cease to Bloom, My Dear Ernst Bacon

SURVIVAL
Nickel under the Foot Marc Blitzstein
I Wish It So Blitzstein
A Song without Words Charles Brown
I Too, Sing American Leonard Bernstein

LOVE
Ya Gotta Get While the Gettins Good Eubie Blake
My Handyman Aint Handy No More Blake
A Lot of Grass to Mow William Bolcom
In a Perfect World (Temptation) Jason Robert Brown
I Used to Be Color Blind Berlin
Outside of That, I Love You Berlin

NIGHT
I Send My Heart Up to Thee! Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
Nocturne Samuel Barber
Stay in My Arms Blitzstein
Johnnys Room The Bobs
Love in the Thirties Bolcom
Blues Blitzstein
In My Room The Beach Boys

HIGHER EDUCATION
A Trip to the Library Jerry Bock
What a Waste Bernstein

THE PAST AND THE FUTURE
Never More Will the Wind Bolcom
Spring Will Come Again Bernstein
(Program subject to change)

Composers:

Ernst Bacon
(1898 1990) composed more than 250 songs over his career. He incorporated many American popular and folkloric idioms, and set poetry by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and other seminal poets to music.

Samuel Barber (1910 1981) Probably most famous for his Adagio for Strings, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composers vocal music includes Knoxville: Summer Of 1915, Dover Beach, The Hermit Songs, and the operas Vanessa and Antony and Cleopatra.

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
(1867 1944) was the first successful American female composer of large-scale works. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach. Besides her songs, she wrote symphonies, chamber music, choral works and piano concertos.

Eubie Blake (1887 1983) composed ragtime, jazz, and popular music. With collaborator Noble Sissle, he wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African-Americans. Blake's compositions also included the hits Love Will Find A Way, Memories of You, and I'm Just Wild About Harry.

The Beach Boys
gained fame for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a southern California youth culture of cars, surfing, and romance. Early successes included Surfer Girl and I Get Around, and beginning with the album Pet Sounds, they became more artistically innovative, earning critical praise and influencing many later musicians.

Irving Berlin (1888 1989)
One of American musics greatest songwriters, he wrote music and lyrics for such classic Broadway shows as Annie Get Your Gun and As Thousands Cheer, and his many near-anthem songs include White Christmas, God Bless America and Alexanders Ragtime Band.

Leonard Bernstein (1918 1990), conductor, composer and pianist, One of the most prodigally talented and successful musicians in American history (New York Times), wrote classic musicals (West Side Story, On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide), as well as operas, symphonies, masses, and vivid shorter instrumental works.

Marc Blitzstein (1905 1964) is best known for his politically-themed musical The Cradle Will Rock and for his off-Broadway translation/adaptation of the Brecht/Weill The Threepenny Opera. His works also include the opera Regina, an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes, and the Broadway musical Juno, based on Sean O'Casey's play Juno and the Paycock.

The Bobs, a quartet of acoustic singers, all with Bob as part of their names, composes witty and original material. Their albums include Get Your Monkey Off My Dog, My, Im Large and Shut Up and Sing.

William Bolcom (b. 1938). The Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer has created instrumental concertos, songs and the operas A View From the Bridge, McTeague, A Wedding, as well as the comic one-act Lucrezia, which received its world premiere with NYFOS in 2008.

Charles Brown (1922 1999), a blues pianist, singer and composer, created an ultra-mellow jazz-inflected genre with his Drifting Blues and Get Yourself Another Fool and All My Life, and influenced later artists such as Ray Charles.

Jason Robert Brown (b. 1970), often cited as one of the "New School" of theatrical composers, fuses pop-rock stylings with theatrical lyrics. His score for the 1999 musical Parade won a Tony Award, and his songs for Broadways Urban Cowboy were nominated for a Tony.

Harry T. Burleigh (1866 1949) was an African-American classical composer, arranger, and singer. He was the first black composer to influence the development of a characteristically American music and he helped to make black music available to classically-trained artists by introducing them to the music and by arranging Negro spirituals in a more classical form.


BIOS THE ARTISTS

Steven Blier
Artistic director Steven Blier co-founded the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) in 1988 with Michael Barrett. Since the Festivals inception he has programmed, performed, translated and annotated over one hundred vocal recitals with repertoire spanning the entire range of American song, art song from Schubert to Szymanowski, and popular song from early vaudeville to Lennon-McCartney.

Mr. Blier also enjoys an eminent career as an accompanist and vocal coach. His recitals with Rene Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Samuel Ramey, Susan Graham, Frederica von Stade, and Jessye Norman, have taken him to the stages of Carnegie Hall, La Scala, and Londons Wigmore Hall. He has premiered works of John Corigliano, Ned Rorem, William Bolcom, John Musto, Paul Moravec, Tobias Picker, Robert Beaser, and Lee Hoiby, many of which were commissioned by NYFOS.

In addition to his many recordings with NYFOS, Mr. Bliers discography includes four volumes of songs by Charles Ives with baritone William Sharp (Albany Records), a Grammy-nominated CD of American songs with Mr. Sharp (New World Records), and first recordings of music by Busoni and Borodin with cellist Dorothy Lawson (Koch International). His two most recent releases are The Land Where the Good Songs Go with Sylvia McNair and Hal Cazalet, and Spanish Love Songs with Joseph Kaiser and the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (Bridge Records).

Mr. Blier is on the faculty of The Juilliard School, and has been active in encouraging young recitalists at summer programs, including the Wolf Trap Opera Company, Glimmerglass Opera, and the San Francisco Opera Center.

Michael Barrett
NYFOS co-founder and Associate Artistic Director Michael Barrett is Chief Executive and General Director of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. In 1992, he co-founded the Moab Music Festival with his wife, violist Leslie Tomkins. From 1994 to 1997, he was the Director of the Tisch Center for the Arts at the 92nd Street Y in New York.

A protg of Leonard Bernstein, Mr. Barrett began his long association with the renowned conductor and composer as a student in 1982. He is currently the Artistic Advisor for the estate of Leonard Bernstein. Mr. Barrett has been a guest conductor with the Orchestra of St. Lukes, the New York Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de France, among others. He also has served variously as conductor, producer, and music director of numerous special projects, including the world premiere of Volpone by John Musto.

Mr. Barretts discography includes: Spanish Love Songs, recorded live at Caramoor with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Steven Blier, and Joseph Kaiser; Live from the Moab Music Festival; the Grammy-nominated Evidence of Things Not Seen (New World Records); Aaron Kernis: 100 Greatest Dance Hits (New Albion); On the Town (Deutsche Grammophon); Kaballah (Koch Classics) by Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie; Schumann Lieder with Lorraine Hunt and Kurt Ollman (Koch); and Arias and Barcarolles (Koch) by Leonard Bernstein (Grammy Award).
Carlton Ford made his NYFOS debut last season in Latin Lovers, and was also featured in the companys Where We Come From. At Juilliard, he sang Demetrius in Brittens Midsummer Nights Dream and Betto in Gianni Schicchi. Previous engagements include Cappadocian in Strausss Salome and Yakusde in Madama Butterfly at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the 2008 Opening Night Gala of Carnegie Hall with Michael Tilson Thomas. Other opera credits include Dancaro in Carmen and Hermann in Les Contes dHoffmann at the Chautauqua Institute. Mr. Ford is also featured in an HBO documentary with Maestro Plcido Domingo.
Catherine Hancock is pursuing a master of music from The Juilliard School. She made her Alice Tully Hall debut singing Debussy songs on the Wednesdays at One concert series and played the role of Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Amalfi Coast Music Festival. This year, Hancock will make her debut with the New Juilliard Ensemble singing at the Smithsonian Museum and in the Focus! Festival.

Carla Jablonski is earning her masters degree at The Juilliard School. Ms. Jablonski received her bachelors degree in voice from Manhattan School of Music, where she sang the roles of Mrs. Jones in Kurt Weills Street Scene and Thelma Yablonski in John Mustos Later the Same Evening. She sang in the U.S. premiere of Xenakiss opera Oresteia at the Miller Theater, followed by a summer residency at Wolf Trap Opera Company. She has received a Drama Desk Award, an ASCAP award, an Outstanding Student Performance from Downbeat Magazine as well as both the Higley and Rita Greenland Scholarships.

Meredith Lustig is currently in her first year of masters studies at The Juilliard School. Roles with the Juilliard Opera Workshop include Second Spirit in The Magic Flute, Isabel Wentworth in Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, Venere in Cavalli's La Doriclea, and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi. Ms. Lustig has made multiple appearances with NYFOS, most recently in their Carnegie Hall Gala, Carried Away, which featured the lyrics of Comden and Green. In May 2009 she was awarded the Handel and Haydn Societys Barbra E. Maze Award.

Timothy McDevitt is a first year masters student at The Juilliard School, where he has been seen as Coryphe in the Juilliard Opera Center production of Le Comte Ory, Virgil T. in The Mother of Us All, Surena in the U.S. premiere of Cavallis La Doriclea, and as Roderick and Sam in Hindemiths The Long Christmas Dinner. Recent credits include Bastien und Bastienne (Colas) in San Jose; Candide (Junkman) and La Bohme (Sergente) with the National Symphony Orchestra; A Hand of Bridge (David) and Il ritorno dUlisse (Secondo Feacio) with the Wolf Trap Opera Company; and an appearance singing on a worldwide broadcast by the Japanese Fuji Television Network.


Irish singer Naomi O'Connell is pursuing a masters degree at The Juilliard School. She recently performed the role of Lenfant in Ravels Lenfant et les Sortilges at Chautauqua and covered the title role in Ariodante at Juilliard. In 2008, Ms. OConnell won the Operetta competition at the Belvedere International Singing Competition in Vienna, as well as prizes awarded by the opera houses of Dsseldorf, Klagenfurt and La Scala. She won the inaugural John McCormack Vocal Bursary and three prizes in the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition. Ms. OConnell has been awarded the Mackay, Silverman and Lorber Scholarships from Juilliard and is sponsored by the Bank of Ireland Millennium Scholarship and Tom Cavanagh.

Adrian Rosas is currently pursuing a masters degree at The Juilliard School. He has performed the roles of Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, Pistola in Verdis Falstaff, Sarastro and Armored Guard in The Magic Flute, Il Notaio in Gianni Schicchi, Bob in Menottis Old Maid and the Thief, and covered the role of The King in Handels Ariodante in November at Juilliard.

Jeanne Slater, choreographer, dancer, actress, and teacher, has been a member of The Juilliard School faculty since 1998. She also serves on the faculties of New Yorks Circle in the Square Theatre School and the Aspen Music Festival.

New York Festival of Song was founded in 1988 by Steven Blier and Michael Barrett. NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty, humor and originality, combining music, poetry, and history to entertain, educate and create community among audiences and performers. With a far-ranging repertoire of art songs, concert works and theater pieces, its thematic recitals have included programs from Brahms to the Beatles, from the nineteenth-century salons of Paris to Tin Pan Alley, from Russian art song to Argentine tangos, from sixteenth-century lute songs to new music. NYFOS particularly celebrates American song literature and culture, and specializes in premiering and commissioning new American works.

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Auditions for Choral Ensemble January 23, 2010


VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA - The Vancouver Chamber Choir is holding auditions for professional-level singers on Saturday, January 23. All voices (SATB) are invited to audition. Please call Natasha at 604-943-9789 or email natashaneufeld@telus.net for an appointment or further information.

The Vancouver Chamber Choir employs professional singers for approximately 10 local concerts and up to two tours per year, plus other engagements. Regular rehearsals are Tuesday through Thursdays, 10:00 am 12 noon. Additional rehearsals are required near concert dates and will be scheduled as needed.

About the Vancouver Chamber Choir

The Vancouver Chamber Choir is Canadas outstanding professional vocal ensemble. Based on the Pacific coast in British Columbia, conductor Jon Washburn and his 20 singers are noted for their diverse repertoire and performing excellence.

The Choir won the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, recognizing outstanding contribution to the choral art. As well, Jon Washburn was honoured with the prestigious Louis Botto award, given at the 2000 Chorus America Conference in recognition of Washburns innovative and entrepreneurial spirit in the development of a professional choral ensemble of exceptional quality.

In addition to a full concert subscription series and recordings, the Choir tours nationally and internationally and presents five award-winning educational programs.

For more information about this posting contact:

Karen Seaboyer, Manager, Communications and Production

Vancouver Chamber Choir

kseaboyer@vancouverchamberchoir.com 604-738-6822, ext 24

1254 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, BC Canada V6H 1B6 www.vancouverchamberchoir.com

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Enjoy an interactive and spontaneous atmosphere as the ESO presents music of a youthful Beethoven


Late Night with Bill Eddins

Late Night Beethoven

Friday, January 8th 9:30 pm

Classic Landmarks Masters

Beethoven Masters

Saturday, January 9th 8:00 pm

Edmonton, AB Ķ The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) kicks off the New Year with an innovative new series to experience great classical music. Late Night with Bill Eddins makes its series debut, offering a uniquely interactive way to listen and learn about the music of masterful composers. In this series premiere at the Francis Winspear Centre for Music, audiences will hear excerpts from Beethovens early works, in a cool, relaxed atmosphere.

Beginning later than our usual concerts, Late Night Beethoven will see ESO Music Director William Eddins leading the orchestra through Symphony No. 2, the optimistic work Beethoven composed in spite of his impending deafness, and conducting the ESO musicians from the piano as he performs Piano Concert No. 2 an impressive calling card of the emerging genius. ESO Principal Oboe and guest soloist Lidia Khaner will perform the lone surviving movement of a work long thought to be lost for oboe and orchestra, in what will be its Canadian premiere.

Though Late Night Beethoven will be performed without intermission, audiences have the chance to share their thoughts about the music through discussion with Bill Eddins from the stage. Afterwards, guests can stick around for live jazz and cocktails! The smooth contemporary sounds of the CL Project Carter Lee (bass), Steve Frise (guitar), Ian Morris (drums), and Adam Remenda (piano) will entertain guests post-concert in the main lobby, with original arrangements showcasing the astounding creative talent of these young rising musicians.

Both the familiar and unusual music of young Beethoven from Late Night Beethoven can be heard the following evening at the Winspear Centre, in Beethoven Masters. The full works of the Second Piano Concerto and Second Symphony, along with a piece featuring an atypical instrumental combination of flute, bassoon, piano, and orchestra will be presented. Resident Conductor Lucas Waldin will make his ESO debut as guest flutist, and will share conducting duties with Bill Eddins. Lidia Khaner returns to perform the same oboe concerto excerpt from Friday, and Edmonton native Kevin Harris makes his ESO debut as guest bassoonist. Learn more about Saturday evenings performance at Symphony Prelude: 7:15 pm in the Upper Circle (Third Level) Lobby with D.T. Baker.

Ticket prices for Late Night Beethoven range from $20 $40 (agency fees apply), and $20 - $69 (agency fees apply) for Beethoven Masters. Tickets are available through the Winspear Centre Box Office by calling (780) 428-1414, 1-800-563-5081, or purchase online at www.edmontonsymphony.com.

The next, and only other performance of the Late Night with Bill Eddins series this season will take place on May 28th, 2010. Late Night Paris will once again see Bill Eddins as conductor and pianist in this concert exploring the beauty of France in the spring through the music of Bizet and Poulenc.

The music of Beethoven returns for the next Masters series performances on January 22nd & 23rd, 2010. An unforgettable presentation of the epochal Ninth Symphony Choral will be performed by the ESO, with guest vocalists and Richard Eaton Singers. A 2008 choral work by John Estacio, set to text by acclaimed Canadian poet and playwright, John Murrell, will also be heard.

Thank you to our Late Night with Bill Eddins series sponsor Lexus of Edmonton, our Masters series title sponsor Classic Landmarks Master Builder and Masters series media sponsor CKUA Radio Network, and ESO season sponsors CBC and the Edmonton Journal.

Sponsorship inquiries can be directed to Marc Carnes, Director of Development, at (780) 401-2518.

The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, marking its 58th season in 2009-2010, has taken its place as one of Canada's foremost orchestral ensemble. Its current roster includes 56 musicians from Canada and around the world, performing a wide-ranging repertoire from the great classical masterworks to pops and children's concerts. The presence of the orchestra and its enrichment of the community's quality of life are key elements in the stature and profile of Edmonton on the national and international scene.

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New Adventures in Sound Art Presents Art's Birthday at the Artscape Wychwood Barns

Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #252, Toronto, ON M6G 4C7

naisa@naisa.ca, Tel 416-652-5115; Fax 416-652-5139

Part of an international celebration of Art

Sunday, January 17: Noon to 5PM in the Covered Street, 601 Christie St., Toronto, ON

Admission is free and for all ages. BYOK - Bring your own Kazoo!

For Immediate Release - Toronto, ON, December 21, 2009: - Craving a Sunday afternoon with lots of cake and fun things to do in Toronto? New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) proudly presents Arts Birthday at the Barns. Sunday, January 17th is the perfect day to make and enjoy Art on the fabulous Covered Street at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. From Noon to 5pm, there will be hands on art-making, interactive fun, and lots of sounds and things to see. And of course there will be cake! The entire event will be web-cast live by NAISA at www.naisa.ca . Happy 1,000,047th Birthday, Art!

Arts Birthday is a celebration of ART of all kinds and NAISA has organized a chance for your entire family to experience, create and understand it from the many perspectives offered by artists who live and work at the Barns (with a few from the nearby vicinity). Confirmed events include: Working with Clay (Helen Comay Nursery School); Funky Family Dance Party (Theatre Direct); Hand Clapping Games (with Rebecca Singh); Violin/viola performances by students of Carol Gimbel; Storytelling (Storytelling Toronto); Performances with Radio transmitters and Sound Art Hockey Game on the outdoor rink - weather permitting (NAISA); How to make Jewelry from Recycled materials (Deborah Sanderson); re-mixes by ambient artist Neil Wiernik of sound events occurring throughout the day (NAISA) plus many more events to be announced soon. Also included will be John Coburn as the roving reporter and on-stage host for the day as part of a live web-cast.

NAISA will also be participating in an Arts Birthday celebration on Saturday, January 16, at Erin Meadows Community Centre in Mississauga presented by the City of Mississauga Culture Division from noon - 5pm. Events include swimming amidst the sounds of a hydraulophone during public swimming; the underground garage sale; making artist trading cards; interactive art installations; live internet broadcasts with Andrew OConnor and the Youth Troopers for Global Awareness; a puppet jam; artist performances; open mic; Mississauga Children's choir performance and birthday cake!

Art's Birthday was proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. It has since been celebrated on January 17 as an annual exchange-art event by a collection of artists and artist organizations around the world.

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is a non-profit organization, based in Toronto that produces performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Included in its productions are: Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, Arts Birthday and SOUNDplay. The objectives of NAISA are to foster awareness and understanding locally, as well as nationally and internationally, in the cultural vitality of experimental sound art in its myriad forms of expression. This objective will be achieved through the exploration of new sound technologies in conjunction with the creation of cultural events and artifacts.

NAISA

Tel 416 652 5115

www.naisa.ca

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Renowned Soprano Kathleen Battle in Recital

AT CARNEGIE HALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2010, AT 8:00PM

COLUMBIA ARTISTS MANAGEMENT PRESENTS

MS. BATTLE WITH PIANIST OLGA KERN IN WORKS BY

RACHMANINOFF, LISZT AND SCHUBERT

Kathleen Battle, one of the greatest coloratura sopranos of our time, will perform in recital at Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium, Perelman Stage) on Monday, February 8, 2010 at 8 p.m. Presented by Columbia Artists Management, Ms. Battle will be joined by Olga Kern, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Gold Medalist. The evenings program will feature performances of works by Rachmaninoff, Liszt and Schubert.

Tickets for the February 8 concert, at $100 to $20, are available online at www.carnegiehall.org; by telephone at Carnegie Charge, (212) 247-7800; or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th Street and Seventh Avenue.

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Kathleen Battle in Recital at Carnegie Hall

Monday, February 8, 2010 8:00 PM

Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage Carnegie Hall

Tickets: $100 to $20, available online at www.carnegiehall.org or by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800 and at the Box Office at 57th Street and Seventh Avenue.

About Kathleen Battle

Soprano Kathleen Battles luminous voice has been called Ķwithout qualification, one of the very few most beautiful in the world (The Washington Post). Yet beyond the glory of her singing, in a career filled with countless accolades, honors and major milestones, what has perhaps distinguished her most is her almost magical ability to create an unwavering emotional bond between herself, her music and her audience.

In her youth, this native of Portsmouth, Ohio, the youngest of seven children, sang in church and school, and envisioned a future as a music teacher. Fortunately for audiences around the world, she found other ways to share her love of music and, through her natural gifts, innate intelligence, and hard work, her soaring voice has carried her to the heights of the music world. Indeed, throughout a remarkable career that has brought her to the stages of the worlds leading opera houses and major concert halls, critics have never tired of rhapsodizing over her limpid, unmistakable sound. In quite poetic terms, they have compared it to the ethereal beauty of winter moonlight (The Washington Post), a paradoxical meeting of earth and sky (Philadelphia Inquirer), and cream from a miraculous, bottomless pitcher (The New York Times).

The range of Ms. Battles repertoire spans three centuries, from the Baroque era to contemporary works. She has enjoyed some of her greatest successes in the opera house in repertoire ranging from Handel (Cleopatra in the Metropolitan Operas premiere staging of Giulio Cesare) to Richard Strauss (Sophie, Zdenka, Zerbinetta). For her Covent Garden debut as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Ms. Battle became the first American to be honored with a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a New Opera Production. She has similarly distinguished herself as one of our generations finest interpreters of Mozart (Susanna, Despina, Pamina, and Zerlina), as well as the bel canto operas of Rossini (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) and Donizetti (LElisir d'Amore, Don Pasquale, and La Fille du Regiment). In the words of critic Tim Page, Ms. Battles natural territory is music of sweetness, serenity, and girlish ecstasy. Within this repertoire she is all but unequaled.

In recital, Kathleen Battle has mesmerized audiences around the globe with her unique artistry and vocal beauty. Of her Carnegie Hall recital debut, New York Newsday declared, In an age when the vocal recital has practically gone the way of the dinosaur, this was a thrilling case for its return. For the CD of this recital, released on DG, Ms. Battle received one of three Grammy Awards for Best Classical Vocal Soloist. The Australian echoed the sentiment of critics around the world, saying, The Sydney Opera House has played host to any number of great singersĶbut its unlikely there has ever been (or perhaps ever will be) a performance to match the recital American soprano Kathleen Battle gave.

Kathleen Battles gifts as a singer extend beyond the realm of classical music. Her work as a great interpreter of spirituals is documented on a joint recital with Jessye Norman, Spirituals in Concert (DG). Her pure emotional power in this music of joy and sorrow cuts through all cultural boundaries. As the Vienna Kurier put it, Kathleen Battle sang so beautifully in the spiritual Heaven is one beautiful place, she came pretty close to heaven.

Ms. Battle drew considerable attention with the world premiere of Honey and Rue, a song cycle with music by Oscar and Grammy-winner composer Andr Previn and lyrics by Nobel and Pulitzer Prizewinning author Toni Morrison, commissioned for Ms. Battle by Carnegie Hall on the event of their 100th anniversary. Since then, she has performed the work with leading orchestras and in recital throughout the world. The Los Angeles Times called her performance of this work spellbinding, while the Cincinnati Herald remarked, her voice was like the ebb and flow of the seas as an almost sacred silence enclosed the auditorium. The recording of this cycle was released by DG, on a disc which also includes Barbers Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and arias from Gershwins Porgy and Bess.

Always seeking to expand her artistic horizons, Ms. Battle was joined by leading jazz musicians for her first crossover album, So Many Stars (Sony Classical), a collection of lullabies, spirituals, and folksongs. Commenting on her extraordinary gifts as a jazz artist, The Detroit News noted, When Battle and her core jazz trio held the stage, the musical splendor was almost more than the ear could take in.

Since her student years, Kathleen Battle has collaborated with colleagues who rank among the worlds most talented musicians. She has been a favorite soloist with the worlds leading orchestras and esteemed conductors such as Herbert von Karajan, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Slatkin, Andr Previn, Claudio Abbado, Sir Georg Solti, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, and Sir Neville Marriner. Her partnerships with soprano Jessye Norman, tenors Luciano Pavarotti and Plcido Domingo, violinist Itzhak Perlman, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, guitarist Christopher Parkening, flautists Jean-Pierre Rampal and Hubert Laws, and the late saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr., to name but a few, are documented on numerous recordings and video discs.

Kathleen Battle has established herself as a distinguished recording artist through a wide range of releases encompassing complete opera, concert, choral and solo albums on all major labels. Memorable concerts recorded live and now available on CD and home video include Mozarts Coronation Mass from the Vatican and the 1987 New Years Concert, both with Herbert von Karajan conducting; the CDs are on the DG label with the video versions on Sony. Her performance of the title role in the DG recording of Handel's Semele, with Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, and John Nelson conducting, earned Ms. Battle a fifth Grammy Award. This recording commemorates a now-legendary concert performance of Handels masterpiece, starring Ms. Battle and virtually the same cast as the recording, which created such a sensation that Carnegie Hall recognized it as one of its one hundred milestones during its centennial year.

Kathleen Battle has made immeasurable contributions as an ambassador for classical music, performing for presidents and dignitaries, and attracting diverse new audiences through television broadcasts of her operas and concerts, as well as through appearances on popular network talk shows. Her performance on the PBS broadcast of the Metropolitan Operas 1991 season opening gala won her an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Classical Program on Television. A documentary film on the recording of Sonys Baroque Duet album with Wynton Marsalis and John Nelson conducting the Orchestra of St. Lukes was nominated for an Emmy. Ms. Battles critically acclaimed Metropolitan Opera Presents performances of Mozart's Die Zauberflte, Donizetti's LElisir dAmore, and Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia are available on DG VHS and DVD, while Sony has captured her Zerlina in Karajans production of Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Festival as well.

Praised for the keen intelligence which informs her musical sensitivity, Kathleen Battle earned both her Bachelor and Master degrees from the College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati. She has been awarded seven honorary doctoral degrees -- from her Alma Mater, the University of Cincinnati; Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey; Ohio University; Xavier University in Cincinnati; Amherst College; Seton Hall University; Wilberforce University; and Manhattanville College. In honor of her outstanding artistic achievements, Ms. Battle was inducted into the NAACP Image Award Hall of Fame, and in 2002 into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame. She is the first recipient of the Ray Charles Award, bestowed upon her by Wilberforce University. These are heady accomplishments indeed for an artist whose earliest connection to music was simply feeling blessed to have a voice that somebody else wanted to hear.

About Olga Kern

With her vivid stage presence, passionately confident musicianship and extraordinary technique, the striking young Russian pianist Olga Kern has continued to captivate fans and critics alike. Across the United States each season, she is in demand for re-engagements and new appearances, and is quickly being recognized worldwide.

As a result of her performance of Sergei Rachmaninoffs Piano Concerto No. 3 at the 11th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2001, Olga Kern won the Gold Medal and became the first woman to achieve this distinction in over 30 years. Olgas second triumph came in New York City on May 4, 2004, with a highly acclaimed New York City recital debut at Carnegies Zankel Hall. In an unprecedented turn of events eleven days later, on May 12, 2004, Olga Kern gave a recital in Isaac Stern Auditorium at the invitation of Carnegie Hall.

This season, Olga will perform all of the Rachmaninoff concerti in residence with the Colorado Symphony, have her debut with the New Jersey Symphony, and perform in several special event concerts with famed soprano Kathleen Battle. The summer of 2009 brought Olga Kern her fourth re-engagement at the Ravinia Festival for Rachmaninoffs Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Chicago Symphony under the baton of James Conlon. She also performed at the Brevard Music Festival, International Keyboard Institute, and gave a recital and master classes in New York City.

In the 2008-2009 Season, Olga made her debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin and presented recitals in Washington, DC; La Jolla, CA; and Fort Worth, TX; among other cities. After a critically acclaimed 35-city tour of the U.S. in spring 2007 with the National Philharmonic of Russia and Vladimir Spivakov, Ms. Kern opened the 2007-2008 season as guest soloist with the Colorado Symphony, performed with the Nashville Symphony, and made her debut with the Vancouver Symphony. In May of 2008, Olga Kern toured North America with Maestro Spivakov and the world renowned Moscow Virtuosi, presenting concerts in Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Washington, DC, and Toronto.

Olga Kern made her London debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 2006 playing Shostakovichs Piano Concerto No. 1 with Leonard Slatkin conducting. She returned to London in 2008 for her Proms Debut playing Rachmaninoffs Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin conducting. Recent European appearances have included a tour of Austria and Switzerland with the Warsaw Philharmonic and Maestro Antoni Wit, a tour of Germany with the Czech Philharmonic and Maestro Zdenek Maal, performances with the orchestras of Copenhagen and Lyon, and recitals in Milan, Hamburg and Luxemburg. Ms. Kern made her South American debut with the Orquestra de So Paulo in March, 2008. She recently made her Canadian debut with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and conductor Pinchas Zukerman in summer 2007, and she made her debut with the Taipei Symphony in June of 2006. She made her debut with the Seoul Philharmonic in October of 2008.

Ms. Kerns festival appearances are many. In June of 2008, she presented the Inaugural Concert of the Southeastern Piano Festival in Columbia, South Carolina. She is welcomed back frequently to the Interlochen Festival, Bravo! Vail Festival, and the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and James Conlon, after having made her debut there in 2002 with Christoph Eschenbach. She made her Hollywood Bowl debut in 2005 and returned to the Festival Casals in Puerto Rico in 2007, where she performed to a sold out venue. She has been a recent guest artist at several international music festivals, including the Klavier Ruhr and Kissinger Sommer festivals in Germany, the Radio-France Montpellier and Casadesus festivals in France, the Ohrid Festival in Macedonia, and the Busoni Festival in Italy.

In 2002, Olga Kern made an extensive tour of South Africa where she returned to tour again in 2005, performing all four Rachmaninoff piano concertos and Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini with her brother, Vladimir Kern, conducting, three times over a span of six days, an unprecedented feat undertaken especially for the South African audience. She is now Artistic Director of the Cape Town Festival in South Africa and returns there annually.

Ms. Kern has performed in many of the world's most important venues, including the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Symphony Hall in Osaka, Salzburger Festspielhaus, La Scala in Milan, Tonhalle in Zurich, and the Chtelet in Paris. She has appeared as soloist with the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Symphony, Russian National Orchestra, China Symphony, Belgrade Philharmonic, La Scala Philharmonic, Torino Symphony, and Cape Town Symphony Orchestras. She has also performed with the Kirov Orchestra under the direction of Valery Gergiev at the Kennedy Center.

Ms. Kern was born into a family of musicians with direct links to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff and began studying piano at the age of five. Winner of the first Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition when she was seventeen, she is a laureate of eleven international competitions and has toured throughout her native Russia, Europe, and the United States, as well as in Japan, South Africa, and South Korea. The recipient of an honorary scholarship from the President of Russia in 1996, she is a member of Russias International Academy of Arts. She began her formal training with acclaimed teacher Evgeny Timakin at the Moscow Central School and continued with Professor Sergei Dorensky at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she was also a postgraduate student. She also studied with Boris Petrushansky at the acclaimed Accademia Pianistica Incontri col Maestro in Imola, Italy.

Ms. Kern records exclusively for Harmonia Mundi. Her most recent recording of the Brahms Variations was released in September of 2007. Her discography includes recordings of Tchaikovskys Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and Christopher Seaman (2003), a Rachmaninoff recording of the Corelli Variations and other transcriptions (2004), a recital disk with works by Rachmaninoff and Balakirev (2005) and Chopins Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Warsaw Philharmonic and Antoni Wit (2006). She was also featured in the award-winning documentary about the 2001 Cliburn Competition, Playing on the Edge.

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The National Arts Centre Orchestra Players Association Christmas FanFair concert at the NAC raises $43,745

The musicians of the National Arts Centre Orchestra are pleased to announce that the 2009 NACO musicians Christmas FanFair fundraising campaign has raised a total of $43,745 for the Snowsuit Fund and the Ottawa Food Bank. This amount will be divided evenly between the two charities.

The musicians of the NAC Orchestra wish most sincerely to thank the National Arts Centre, members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 471, and Friends of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, for their generous support.

Begun in 1989, this is now the third decade for the Christmas FanFair benefit produced by the musicians of the NAC Orchestra to benefit the Snowsuit Fund and the Ottawa Food Bank. The Snowsuit Fund is an Ottawa-based charity that has been raising funds for the purchase and distribution of snowsuits to needy children 15 years and under for more than 25 years. The demand for their services continues to grow; in 2008-2009, the Snowsuit Fund distributed nearly 15,000 new snowsuits. The Ottawa Food Bank provides 43,000 people each month with emergency food assistance, 40% of whom are children. The Ottawa Food Bank supports more than 135 food programs throughout the National Capital Region, distributing 12 tons of food every working day; $1 donated to the Ottawa Food Bank generates $5 worth of food into the community.

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LAssociation des musiciens de lOrchestre du CNA rcolte 43 745 $ au profit de la Banque dalimentation dOttawa et du Fonds Habineige sa Fanfoire de Nol

Les musiciens de lOrchestre du Centre national des Arts (CNA) sont heureux dannoncer que leur Fanfoire de Nol 2009 (activit de financement) a permis damasser 43 745 $, somme qui sera rpartie parts gales entre le Fonds Habineige et la Banque dalimentation dOttawa.

Les musiciens de lOrchestre tiennent remercier chaleureusement le Centre national des Arts, les membres la section 471 de lAlliance internationale des employs de scne et de thtre (AIEST) et les Amis de lOrchestre du Centre national des Arts pour leur gnreux soutien.

Cr en 1989, ce concert-bnfice annuel de la Fanfoire de Nol, produit par les musiciens de lOrchestre du CNA au profit du Fonds Habineige et de la Banque dalimentation dOttawa, amorce sa troisime dcennie. Le Fonds Habineige est un organisme de charit tabli Ottawa qui, depuis plus de 25 ans, amasse des fonds destins acheter et distribuer des habits de neige aux enfants dfavoriss de 0 15 ans. La demande ne cesse de crotre; en 2008-2009, le Fonds Habineige a distribu prs de 15 000 nouveaux habits dhiver. La Banque dalimentation dOttawa procure chaque mois une aide alimentaire durgence 43 000 personnes, dont 40 % sont des enfants. Lorganisme soutient plus de 135 programmes alimentaires partout dans la rgion de la capitale nationale, distribuant chaque jour ouvrable 12 tonnes de nourriture. Chaque dollar donn la Banque dalimentation dOttawa gnre cinq dollars de nourriture dans la collectivit.

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Hold the Dates!

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The Segal Centre for Performing Arts and Saputo Inc.

In association with Crows Theatre

Present

Geometry in Venice

By Michael Mackenzie

Directed by Chris Abraham

Mark these dates in your winter calendar

Sunday, January 31- Sunday, February 14, 2010

CBC 88.5 RadioOne presents the Sunday-@-The Segal lecture for Geometry in Venice on Sunday, January 31, 11 a.m. with the playwright, Michael Mackenzie.

With: Damien Atkins, Graham Cuthbertson, Aidan Devine, Susanna Fournier, Allegra Fulton and Elliot Larson.

Geometry in Venice

The Segal Theatre

5170 Cote St. Catherine Rd.

Monday to Thursday at 8:00 p.m.

Saturday at 8:30 p.m.

Sunday at 7:00 p.m.

Matines: Wednesdays, 1:00pm and Sundays, 2:00 pm

Reservations: (514) 739-7944

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Programmation de lhiver 2010 au Centre de design

C_Design


Montral, le 22 dcembre 2009 - Voici la liste des expositions, intra et extra muros, du Centre de design de l'UQAM, pour la saison dhiver 2010.

AU CENTRE DE DESIGN

6 au 24 janvier 2010

Autour de LaTourelle

Intervention IV : Fortunato Depero. Graphisme et publicit 1914 1949

Sous le commissariat de Maurizio Scudiero, cette intervention sera la quatrime et dernire organise dans le cadre de Dploiement du Modle dune expansion intrieure de Rodney LaTourelle. Tout en posant un regard nouveau sur linstallation, lIntervention IV prsentera les uvres de Fortunato Depero, artiste et figure cl du mouvement futuriste italien.

Consultez le communiqu.

11 fvrier au 18 avril 2010

Vernissage : le mercredi 10 fvrier 2009, 18 heures

Penser tout haut / faire larchitecture

Ce projet propose une reformulation de lexposition prsente en 2008 lArchitekturzentrum Vienne. Celui-ci dressait le portrait de vingt bureaux darchitectes internationaux sous langle intime de leur espace et outils de travail. Le Centre de design rutilisera les photos et les entrevues ralises par la commissaire Elke Krasny pour les exposer sous forme de tirages photographiques intgrant des fragments de texte. Deux volets locaux seront ajouts ces photos : la reconstitution des ateliers de onze bureaux darchitectes canadiens et la prsentation dun inventaire des outils de cration utiliss en architecture.

Une srie dvnements complmentaires sera prsente pendant toute la dure de lexposition.

29 avril au 2 mai 2010

Vernissage : le mercredi 28 avril, 18 heures

Exposition des finissants en design de lenvironnement

Prsentation des projets de fin dtudes du programme de premier cycle en design de lenvironnement.

6 mai au 9 mai 2010

Vernissage : le mercredi 5 mai, 18 heures

Exposition des finissants en design graphique

Prsentation des projets de fin dtudes du programme de premier cycle en design graphique.

13 mai au 16 mai 2010

Vernissage : mercredi le 12 mai, 18 heures

Exposition des finissants en design dvnements

Prsentation des projets de fin dtudes du DESS en design dvnements

Adresse et heures douverture

Centre de design de lUQAM

1440 rue Sanguinet (angle Sainte-Catherine Est)

Montral (mtro Berri-UQAM)

Du mercredi au samedi, de midi 18 h

Entre libre

HORS LES MURS

Jusquau 18 avril 2010

Muse national des beaux-arts du Qubec, Qubec

Qubec en design

75 ans de crations issues de la collection du MNBAQ

Cette exposition itinrante, produite par le Muse national des beaux-arts du Qubec et le Centre de design de lUQAM, prsente des objets, des croquis de conception, des photographies, des maquettes et des documents audiovisuels illustrant la cration qubcoise dans les domaines des arts appliqus, du design industriel et du design graphique, des annes 1930 nos jours.

Renseignements

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Geordie Productions winter highlights: Once Upon a Home and Thrice upon a timeĶ

Montreal, December 21, 2009 Geordie Productions is delighted to present two exuberant plays to thrill Montreal children and their families this winter:

ONCE UPON A HOME | Centaur Theatre Childrens Series | Saturday, January 16, 2010

Written by Amanda Kellock, from the writings of students at: FACE, St-Gabriels, Willingdon, Coronation and Karonhiahonha schools. Directed by Amanda Kellock. Designed by: Ana Cappelluto and Troy Slocum. Featuring: Jimmy Blais, Vanessa Schmit-Craan and Antoine Yared.

What does "Home" mean to you? Last year, Geordie posed this question to elementary-school students from 5 different schools in and around Montreal, as part of a collaborative creation process called From You to Us to You. With their stories, words, and drawings, the Geordie team created a fresh new play to bring back To You. Through songs, stories and a lot of make-believe, discover some of the many diverse ideas children have of Home.

Since September 2009, Once Upon a Home has traveled all across Quebec as part of Geordies School Tour. Dont miss this opportunity to catch a public performance here in Montreal!

Box Office: (514) 288-3161 | Centaur Theatre, 453 St. Franois-Xavier | Tickets: $6 - $8 | Recommended for ages 4 - 12

THRICE UPON A TIMEĶ | Geordies Mainstage Series | January 29 February 7, 2010

Written by Jacqueline Gosselin. Directed by by Jacqueline Gosselin and Robert Dion.

Produced by DynamO Thtre. Costume and prop design: Pierre-tienne Locas. Music: Jean-Franois Pedn. Lighting: Erwann Bernard. Make-up: Suzanne Trpanier. Puppet design: Marie-Michle Mailloux. Cast: Hugues Sarra-Bournet, Andranne Joubert,

and Jean-Franois Guilbault

Montreals award-winning Theatre of Acrobatic Movement returns from its international tour to perform on Geordies Mainstage! While stranded on a mysterious island, a young boy encounters an outlandish creature who sends him on a mission to defeat an evil witch. This modern-day fairytale draws on familiar and foreign legends - from Grimm's fairytale "Hansel and Gretel" to William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" to traditional Chinese opera stage combat - while seamlessly blending heart-stopping acrobatics with a live musical soundscape.

Box Office: (514) 845-9810 |McGills Moyse Hall | 853 Sherbrooke St. West | Tickets $13.50 - $16 | For age 7+ and adults

About Geordie Productions: Geordie is a professional theatre company that has presented live English-language theatre for young audiences for over twenty-five years. Based in Montreal, Geordies School Tour travels extensively from the Far North to all across Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes, bringing many communities their only opportunity to see live theatre. Geordie's Mainstage Series presents both well-loved classics and exciting new work by contemporary Canadian playwrights to families and school groups in downtown Montreal.

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Nuits d'Afrique des spectaclesĶ..toute lanne ! Prsentent La plus grande vedette pop du Mali Habib Koit & Bamada


Le Meilleur de la Musique du Monde

Je suis curieux de toutes les musiques du monde,

mais je fais de la musique malienneĶ

-Habib Koit

Montral, le 7 dcembre 2009- Le 24 mars prochain au National, le guitariste Habib Koit, un des musiciens les plus populaires et reconnus dAfrique, viendra de nouveau la rencontre du public Montralais conquis par cet artiste de grande envergure, virtuose sensible et inspire de la guitare malienne.

Descendant dune noble ligne de griots Khassonk, des troubadours traditionnels reconnus pour leur humour, leur sagesse et leurs talents musicaux, Habib grandit entour de dix-sept frres et surs, affinant son style unique la guitare en accompagnant sa mre griotte. Surtout, il hrite de sa passion pour la musique, de son grand-pre paternel qui jouait du Kamele NGoni, un instrument traditionnel quatre cordes que lon associe aux chasseurs de la rgion du Wassoulou au Mali.

Riche de toutes ces influences, le jeu de guitare dHabib a toujours adopt des approches pour le moins uniques. Il accorde son instrument selon lchelle pentatonique, jouant la corde vide comme on le ferait avec un Kamale NGoni. Habib joue une musique dont les sonorits ne sont pas sans rappeler le blues ou le flamenco, deux styles musicaux quil tudie sous lgide de Khalilou Traor, vtran du groupe afro-cubain lgendaire Maravillas du Mali.

En 1988, entour de jeunes musiciens aussi amis denfance, Habib forme son propre groupe Bamada (surnom donn aux habitants de Bamako qui signifie dans la gueule du loup ).

En 1995, aprs plusieurs distinctions musicales et 2 chansons qui font un vritable carton en Afrique de lOuest, Habib Koit et Bamada lance son premier album Muso Ko , un succs immdiat et plantaire. Sensuit lalbum Ma Ya en 98, Baro en 2001, Fly ! en 2003 et finalement Afriki en 2008, un album enregistr au Mali, en Belgique et au Vermont qui explore de nouvelles dimensions musicales.

Le thme dont sinspire lalbum tout entier est celui des dfis du continent africain, ce sujet Habib Koit, considr comme un des plus grands ambassadeurs de la musique malienne, dclare : Ķ.La vie peut tre trs belle ou trs moche, quel que soit lendroit o vous vivez. Il faut que les gens comprennent. Mme si le Mali est un pays pauvre, la qualit de vie y est encore bonne. Vous pouvez trs bien sortir de chez vous et offrir un sourire et quelquun vous le rendra. Jy ai beaucoup rflchi et je ne suis pas certain que les pauvres aient une qualit de vie moindreĶ

Habib Koit & Bamada

Billets en vente ds la mi-janvier 2010

Billetterie et infos

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Zygmunt Krauze and the Polish Perspective

January 10-13, 2010

Glenn Gould Studio, Gallery 345, Music Gallery and U of T

NEW MUSIC CONCERTS 39th Season

New musical inventions that provoke, awaken and inspire

For Immediate Release Toronto, December 21, 2009: Poland has long enjoyed the reputation of spawning some of the worlds most successful and controversial composers. New Music Concerts enters 2010 with a four-day Polish festival beginning on January 10 with Zygmunt Krauze and the Polish Perspective. Distinguished pianist/composer Zygmunt Krauze has curated a program of Canadian premieres by challenging young Polish composers and including Pawel Szymanski, who has proved himself one of the most uncompromising composers of our times. As part of the mini-Polish festival, Zygmunt Krauze offers a special benefit recital for New Music Concerts (January 11, non-subscription event) in which he improvises on the music Chopin and Lutosawski, as well as a Free Public Lecture at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto on January 12. The Polish celebration ends on a high note as Polands electrifying performer Agata Zubel, a versatile musician who enjoys a rising double career as composer and soprano, performs music for solo voice with piano and electroacoustic accompaniment, on January 13.

Famed Polish composer and pianist Zygmunt Krauze was born in 1938. He studied composition and piano at the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He is known as a composer of unistic music, based on the theory of unistic art adopted from the painting of Wladyslaw Strzeminski (1893-1952). Unistic music lacks contrasts, tension and climaxes in the traditional sense and its form is as homogenous as possible. Krauze has written operas, film music, symphonic and chamber works. Together with architects he also composed spatial music, which was presented in Poland, Austria and France. His music has been performed throughout the world. A sought-after teacher and lecturer, Krauze is a true music pioneer. He has received countless awards and honours, and is very active as a pianist performing mostly 20th century music.

Born in Wroclaw in 1978, Agata Zubel leads a busy double career as a singer and composer. She has won several international competitions for both voice and composition. As a vocalist she has participated in many prestigious musical events. Modern music occupies a special place in her repertoire, and she has premiered and recorded numerous works by contemporary composers. She established the ElettroVoce Duo together with composer and pianist Cezary Duchnowski. On January 10, she performs Cascando for voice, flute, clarinet, violin and cello, based on the 1936 poem by Samuel Beckett (not his later radio play of the same name). With Cascando, it seems, Agata Zubel has crossed another threshold. She has submitted the almost unlimited technical abilities of her voice, and her temperament as a composer and singer, to the ascetic text, perfectly conveying the psychological truth of Becketts reductionism, the chilling logic of his world and the suppressed emotions and despair that underlie that chill, writes Joanna Grotkowska in the liner notes of the CD, also entitled Cascando.

Agata Zubel

January Polish festival events sponsored by the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Toronto:

Sunday January 10, 2010

Zygmunt Krauze and the Polish Perspective

New Music Concerts Ensemble; Zygmunt Krauze, piano and direction; Agata Zubel, soprano

Pawel Mykietyn (Poland, 1971) 3 for 13 (1994)

Agata Zubel (Poland, 1978) Cascando (2007) for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin and cello

Zygmunt Krauze (Poland, 1938) Piano Quintet (1993)

Zygmunt Krauze Polychromie (1968) for clarinet, trombone, piano and cello

Pawel Szymanski (Poland, 1954) Concerto 4 (2004) for clarinet, trombone, piano and cello

Wojciech Baejczyk (Poland, 1981) *M.A.D. (2007) for 12 players

*Mutually Assured Destruction

Glenn Gould Studio: 250 Front St. West

7:15 Illuminating Introduction with the composers / 8PM Concert

Monday January 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM

Special (non-subscription) Fundraising Event: Zygmunt Krauze, piano

Frdric Chopin (Poland, 1810-1849) Mazurka in A minor op. 67, no. 4 (1846) with improvisations

Witold Lutosawski (Poland, 1913-1994) Mlodies populaires (1945) with improvisations

Zygmunt Krauze (Poland, 1938) Six folk melodies (1957); Refrain (1993); Nightmare Tango (1987); Stone Music (1972); Gloves Music (1972)

The $50 admission includes a wine and cheese reception and a charitable receipt will be issued for the portion allowable under Canada Revenue Agency guidelines. Reservations: (416) 961-9594

Gallery 345: 345 Sorauren Avenue

Tuesday January 12 at 7:00 PM

Public Lecture by Zygmunt Krauze

Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, Edward Johnson Building Room 216

Free Admission

Wednesday January 13, 2010

Contemporary Vocal Recital with Agata Zubel, soprano; Peter Tiefenbach, piano

Karol Szymanowski (Poland, 1882-1937) (3) Kurpian Songs (1929) voice and piano

Alban Berg (Austria, 1885-1935) (3) Frhe Lieder (1907) voice and piano

Pawel Szymanski (Poland, 1954) Drei Lieder nach Trakl (2002) voice and piano

Luciano Berio (Italy 1925-2003) Sequenza III (1966) for solo voice

Cezary Duchnowski (Poland, 1971) Dishevelled Grasses (2002) for voice and soundfiles

Agata Zubel Parlando (2000) for voice and sound files

Alejandro Viao (Argentina/UK, 1951) Chant d'Ailleurs (1991) for voice and sound files

Music Gallery at St. George the Martyr: 197 John St.

7:15 Illuminating Introduction with Agata Zubel / 8PM Concert

Individual Tickets for all concerts (except for January 11 event):

Tickets: $30 (regular)/$20 (seniors/arts workers)/$10 (students)

Box office: (416) 961-9594

New Music Concerts

157 Carlton Street, Suite 203 Toronto ON M5A 2K3

416.961.9594 / fax 416.961.9508

nmc@interlog.com / www.NewMusicConcerts.com

New Music Concerts gratefully acknowledges the support of The Canada Council for the Arts; Toronto Arts Council; The Department of Heritage through Arts Presentation Canada; The Province of Ontario through the Ontario Arts Council & the Ontario Arts Foundation Endowment Fund; The Goethe Institut; The Julie-Jiggs Foundation; The Koerner Foundation; The McLean Foundation; Roger D. Moore; The SOCAN Foundation; The Imperial Tobacco Canada Foundation; The Amphion Foundation Inc.; The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.; Edward Epstein and Gallery 345; The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Toronto

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Parution : La Grande Guerre des musiciens

couverture de La Grande Guerre des musiciens

La Grande Guerre des musiciens sous la direction de Stphane Audoin-Rouzeau, Esteban Buch, Myriam Chimnes et Georgie Durosoir

Pour les combattants de la Grande Guerre, forms dans la tradition des musiques militaires, loreille fut parfois lorgane qui leur apprit, leur corps dfendant, la nouveaut technique du conflit ; elle leur permit aussi dentretenir, sous la forme dactivits musicales dveloppes dans des conditions prcaires, un lien avec leur part dhumanit. larrire, le caractre rituel des pratiques musicales commencer par le concert , donna aux discussions sur lengagement et le patriotisme une traduction politique directe, dont tmoignent galement la rorganisation de la vie musicale et parfois mme la cration dinstitutions. Enfin, la guerre mit les compositeurs face une vritable alternative esthtique et morale, entre la culture de la musique pure et la production dune musique politique que certains envisagrent comme une forme de combat.

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Alfred Music Publishing Announces Ron Manus as Chief Executive Officer

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LOS ANGELES, CA December 21, 2009
Alfred Music Publishing, the world leader in educational music publishing since 1922, is proud to continue its 88-year legacy as a family-owned and operated organization with the appointment of Ron Manus as the companys Chief Executive Officer.
Ron Manus has assumed the responsibility of CEO from his brother Steve, who has moved to Spain with his wife Sylvie and 5-year-old daughter, Melissandra. "Even though Steve's life journey has led him on this new adventure, he will continue to play an important role on special projects. And while I am very happy for my brother, I will truly miss his presence here in our Van Nuys offices. He has been a great leader and has left a legacy of which I look forward to following, said Ron.
Poised and ready to take on this thrilling new phase in his career, Ron commented, When Steve first started talking with me about retiring, I couldnt imagine Alfred without him. But over the last 2 years, as I developed my vision for Alfreds future, I realized taking on this new role was a perfect fit for me: I not only can do it, I was born to do it! Having been a long-time musician and a lifelong employee at Alfred, I am extremely excited to take the company into exciting new territory.
Alfred is the industry leader in instructional methods for every instrument, and we continue to lead with exciting cutting-edge technologies. Some of our latest innovations include fully customizable instructional products, digital downloads, mobile applications, and environmentally friendly print solutions, Ron added. And as part of the recapitalization of Alfred, we have established a minority interest Employee Stock Ownership Plan for our employees, which essentially makes everyone working with me at Alfred, my new business partner! This fits the personality and independent spirit of Alfred and reflects our open and progressive thinking as it relates to employee participation in the growth of our business.
For over 20 years with my brother Steve and 50 years with my folks Morty & Iris, we have built an awesome company that cares about our dealers and musicians everywhere. And as a Manus, I plan to continue Alfreds mission to help the world experience the joy of making music, Ron exclaimed. I feel like I am living the dream; I know that this is my passion, this is my life, and this is my dream come true.
Since its inception in 1922, Alfred Music Publishing remains dedicated to helping people experience the joy of making music. With hundreds of expert authors and composers backed by a talented staff in seven offices worldwide, Alfred publishes educational, reference, pop, and performance pieces for teachers, students, hobbyists and performers spanning every musical instrument, style, and difficulty level.
Alfred currently has more than 45,000 active print, DVD, software, Blu-ray, audio CD and enhanced CD titles in circulation throughout the world. Titles represent a full range of musical tastes and styles, including the works of George and Ira Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Henry Mancini, Led Zeppelin, Eagles, Madonna, Green Day, and hundreds more. In addition to its own titles, Alfred distributes works from the National Guitar Workshop, the Dover Music catalog, and Faber Music.

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Nouveaut partition : Concerto pour clavecin de J. Schobert

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Concerto pour le clavecin n4 en ut majeur op. XV de J. Schobert (ca 1735-1767)

Les ditions du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles publient une nouvelle partition pour dcouvrir les origines de la musique soliste pour clavier en France au 18e sicle. Dans la ligne des concertos pour clavecin, initie par J.-S. Bach, celui que propose Johann Schobert vers 1765, propos dans la collection Orchestre des ditions du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, soriente rsolument vers le concerto classique. Ce remarquable musicien, claveciniste et compositeur venu dOutre-Rhin, est parmi les premiers crire des concertos pour clavier publis en France. Sa carrire brillante, brusquement interrompue par sa mort prmature, lamne renouveler notamment la musique instrumentale avec clavier. Le jeune Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, qui apprciait la musique de Schobert, en reprendra plusieurs thmes dans son uvre. Ce concerto pour clavecin, particulirement brillant, qui peut aussi se jouer au pianoforte, se destine des musiciens accomplis qui chercheront, derrire la vlocit, mettre en valeur le style expressif, caractristique de cette priode.

Concerto pour le clavecin n4 en Ut Majeur op. XV de Johann Schobert (ca 1735-1767), partition publie par les ditions du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, collection Orchestre, 2009, 64 pages, 21x29,7 cm, broch, ISMN M-56016-179-2. Avec introduction (franais) : 19,80 Ǩ.

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New release: Harpsichord Concerto No. 4 in C Major Op. 15 by J. Schobert (ca 1735-1767)

The ditions du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles have just published a new score to discover the firsts works for soloist keyboard in France in the 18th century. Johann Schobert composed this harpsichord concerto in France around 1765. Written in the tradition of the genre created by J.-S. Bach, it is definitively oriented in classical aesthetic. This talented musician, harpsichorder and composer from Germany, is one of the first to publish keyboard concerto in France. His brilliant career, suddenly stopped by his premature death, allow him to try something new, such as instrumental music with keyboard. The young Mozart, who appreciated the music of Schobert, used some themes from his work. Today, this particularly brilliant harpsichord concerto, which should be played on a pianoforte, is devoted to accomplished musicians that can, beyond the velocity, set off the expressive style which characterize the period. It is newly published by the ditions du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles in the Orchestre series.

To learn more and find extracts from the score: http://editions.cmbv.fr/achat/produit_details.php?id=826&langue=en

Harpsichord Concerto No. 4 in C Major Op. 15 by Johann Schobert (ca 1735-1767), score published by the ditions du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, series Orchestre, 2009, 64 pages, 21x29,7 cm, paperback, ISMN M-56016-179-2. With introduction (in French) : 19,80 Ǩ.

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DancEurope2009 International Dance Festival / Competition Reports Huge Success from Barcelona 2009 Reg Form

Evidence of huge success with new audiences in BARCELONA
60 schools/companies (1500 Dancers from all over) and 200 performances in 4 days
Professional opportunity for artists and promoters
New engagement and changing impressions towards dance

AND NOW THE 2010 EDITIONS!
BARCELONA DANCE AWARD & DANCE GRAND PRIX ITALY Showcases/
Competitions for emerging & established Dance Schools/Companies from all over the World!

Where EVERYBODY is UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT!

Call for Dance Schools/Groups!

Interested in performing in Europe?

Don't stay at home! LIVE A GREAT THEATRICAL ADVENTURE!

Dear Choreographers/Directors/
Dancers friends and colleagues, the Directors present
the International Competitions and invite your dance group to performing and teaching
at the most prestigious dance events in Europe the next 2010 season.

BARCELONA DANCE AWARD - from 1st to 5th April 2010 in Barcelona and from 24th to
27th June 2010 in Italy and at the end of june in Paris (France).

For the past few years, acceptance to the annual festivals has been extremely competitive,
please prepare your application promptly according to the guidelines.

Promising to be an unforgettable experience, choreographers, dancers
and chaperones are invited to stay at three star hotels off the coast of Spain
in twin bedrooms with bathroom/shower (based on two-three people sharing a room).

For more information, please visit Barcelona Dance Awards or email them directly.

the updated Web Site: <http://web.tiscali.it/dancespain2010/>

Just fill in the form, and you will receive (free on charge) the new brochures and posters
for the DANCE SEASON 2010!

please send to the organizer E-Mail: <ass.terzicorea@tiscali.it>

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