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Les Violons du Roy conducted by Nicolas Ellis. Photo: Florence Geneau

Review | Kerson Leong Dazzles in Lopsided Les Violons du Roy Program

By Heather Weinreb on 18 February 2025 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Montreal, Orchestral, Strings, Violin

For Valentine’s Day, Les Violons du Roy presented a program full of pathos at Montreal’s Bourgie Hall. On the program were iconic excerpts from J.S Bach’s religious choral works, as well as the rip-roaring premiere of Found in Lostness, a piece for solo violin and string orchestra by Canadian composer Kelly-Marie Murphy. Bach and Murphy couldn’t be more different; the disparateness of their music was tied together with two Mendelssohn pieces. Mendelssohn’s earliest piece, the Symphonia for Strings composed when he was 14 years old, started off the concert. His last complete work, String Quartet no. 6 in F minor,…

Cast of Nanatasis. Photo: Kevin Calixte

20th Edition of Festival International de Casteliers

By Newswire on 18 February 2025 Montreal, Newswire, Scena Arts, Theatre

Montréal, January 22, 2025—Puppeteers, theatre fans, and specialists from around the world will be on hand to celebrate the 20th edition of Festival international de Casteliers, March 3 to 9, 2025. The festival line-up features remarkable creations from Belgium, France, Czechia, Germany, the United States, Québec, and Canada. Performances, a documentary film, a concert, exhibitions, professional networking events, workshops, and a parade will all contribute to the festive, artistic, and celebratory nature of this eagerly awaited annual event. Through gesture, material, images and movement, the selected works feature stories about nature and the creatures that inhabit it: poetic legends, quirky…

Introducing the New Artists of the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal!

By Newswire on 18 February 2025 Montreal, Music Competition, Opera, Piano, Vocal

Montreal, February 18, 2025 – The Opéra de Montréal is proud to announce the newest members of the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal, selected following the National Auditions finals at the annual Talent Gala on November 20. This year marks a significant milestone for the internationally renowned professional development residency with the introduction of a specialized training program for stage directors. The 2024 cohort will welcome five singers, one pianist, and one stage director for an intensive one- to two-year training program. – Tessa Fackelmann (mezzo-soprano – ON) – Ellita Gagner (mezzo-soprano – ON) – Colin Mackey (baritone -…

Festival Classica announces the programming of its 15th edition!

By Newswire on 17 February 2025 Classical, Classical Music, Montreal

Montréal, February 10, 2025 — Held over 24 days in the Longueuil urban agglomeration and also in Montréal, Festival Classica has since 2011 provided top-quality programming both in ticketed auditoria and large outdoor free concerts. Its newly minted slogan, “Classical unlimited” perfectly defines the identity the festival has forged over the past few years: with its many commissions of new works from Canadian composers (operas, concertos, chamber music), its grand symphonic rock concerts, its eco-responsible policy, its involvement in digital art, its digitalized scenery, its original programming and its international alliances, Festival Classica embodies and represents the age we live…

Benjamin Appl and Eric Lu. Photo 1: David Ruano

Review | Benjamin Appl & Eric Lu’s Schwanengesang at Bourgie Hall

By Amanda Wong on 17 February 2025 Art Song, Concert Reviews, Montreal, Piano, Vocal

A German-born baritone like Benjamin Appl is certainly no stranger to Schubert’s work. I can only assume that the Austrian composer’s impressive list of over 600 songs offer much to Appl’s repertoire, who himself is largely a Lieder singer. Accompanied by American pianist Eric Lu, Appl presented Schubert’s Schwanengesang—his ‘swan songs’—as well as Beethoven’s song collection, An die ferne Geliebte (To the Distant Beloved), at Montreal’s Bourgie Hall on Feb. 13. What you missed Though one’s swan song is typically a final piece or performance before retirement or death, Schubert’s Schwanengesang is a collection of Lieder compiled and shared by…

Music makes us move even when we don’t like it

By Newswire on 11 February 2025 Classical Music, Education, Montreal, Newswire

Montreal, Feb. 11 – The pleasurable urge to move to music — to groove — appears to be a physiological response independent of how much we generally enjoy music, according to a new paper led by Concordia researchers. That groove response is so strong it is even found in people with musical anhedonia, those who take little or no pleasure from music. The article’s lead author is Isaac Romkey, a PhD student in the Department of Psychology. He writes in the journal PLOS One that recent research shows the two aspects of groove, pleasure and urge to move, while usually closely correlated, may in fact be…

Mécénat Musica: Meagan Milatz & Kristin Hoff Win Prix Goyer

By Newswire on 11 February 2025 Classical Music, Montreal

Montreal, February 11, 2025 – For the first time since its inception in 2015, the Mécénat Musica: Prix Goyer for Collaborative Emerging Artist is awarded to two remarkable collaborative artists: Meagan Milatz, piano, co-artistic and executive director of HausMusique; Kristin Hoff, mezzo-soprano, artistic and general director of Musique 3 Femmes and Mini-Opéras Santé Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer 2025-2028 laureates are each awarded $125,000 for a total of $250,000. Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer is the biggest prize of its kind in Canada and one of the largest in the world for a collaborative emerging artist in classical music. Mécénat Musica Prix…

Clavecin en concert Performs Four Classical Trios

By Newswire on 10 February 2025 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Montreal, Newswire, Strings

Montreal, February 5th, 2025 – Clavecin en concert is pleased to announce the first classical trios concert of 2025, featuring works by Johann Christian Bach, Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Alongside the symphony, string quartet and keyboard sonata, the trio for violin, cello and keyboard remains one of the major genres of classicism. Derived not so much from the Baroque trio sonata, but rather from the “harpsichord pieces that can be played with the accompaniment of a violin and a viola da gamba” in which the French masters gave pride of place to the keyboard, the classical trio…

(L to R) Antoine Malette-Chénier, Catherine St-Arnaud, and Sylvain Bergeron. Photos: Alex Tran, Gaetz Photography, and Guillaume D. Cyr

Review | La Nef: From Double-Digit Cold to Sunny Spain

By Jan Krejcar on 7 February 2025 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Montreal

I was at a dinner party on a very cold, very wintry night right after Christmas, and one of the guests (a non-musician) said, “Wouldn’t it be nice if people researched old instruments from hundreds of years ago and played the pieces that were written then on those instruments?” I didn’t know what to say, really. There have been whole university departments dedicated to historical instruments for many decades now. But I was pleased to see, a month later, on an equally cold and equally wintry night, music from a time very long past, played on just such instruments, making…

Louis Lortie at Bourgie Hall. Photos: Claudine Jacques

Review | Louis Lortie Plays Crystal Clear Ravel

By Heather Weinreb on 6 February 2025 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Montreal, Piano

It is a rare and special concert when one senses that not only the performer, but the composer, is on stage. On February 4 at Bourgie Hall, Louis Lortie played a wealth of Ravel’s piano works, from the iconic Pavane pour une infante défunte to the highly intricate Gaspard de la nuit. He played each piece with such stunning clarity it seemed as though Ravel himself was onstage with Lortie, calmly listening to his own pieces being played just as he would have wanted them to be. What you missed: Lortie’s playing is particularly striking in its attention to the…

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