The three quartets that get to perform in one last, all-Beethoven round are, in performance order, the Navarra Quartet, whose members hail from the U.K., Ireland and Holland, Quatuor Cavatine from France and the Dover Quartet, from the United States.

Recent “graduates” of the competition include soprano Jenavieve Moore, who recently made her BBC début and is now singing on concert stages in Europe. Pianist Annie Zhou has gone on to perform with the Montreal, Minnesota, and Toronto Symphonies.

The film by Yaron Zilberman, which was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival nearly three months ago, opened yesterday at the Varsity Cinemas.

The best choirs are an alchemical feat, where the two elements are mixed to produce musical gold.

They will perform for the jury one more time on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, with the laureates scheduled to be announced at 10:30 p.m., following the second concert.

When I was the editor of the Toronto Star’s weekly arts calendar section in one of my previous lives, I planned and worked in the hope that its pages might not just inform but stimulate discovery: a theatre lover enticed by a concert, or an avid reader finding cause to visit an art gallery.

The first is Orlando Gibbons, caught here in a French documentary from 1974:

In the middle of a concert with the Göteborg Symphony in Sweden on Wednesday, pianist Christian Zacharias stopped playing when a phone rang. The organization had been capturing the concert on video, then added a post-interruption interview with the pianist as a lesson to audiences:

The concluding programme of the Toronto Symphony’s annual Mozart festival had Lortie playing the roles of pianist, accompanist and conductor. He fulfilled each with an easy elegance, thanks to the willing participation of no more than 38 members of the orchestra.

The young Canadians and three professional mentors will be working with 35 young Indians, brought together by the Bangalore School of Music. In addition to one-on-one training and master classes, the orchestra players will be working towards a joint concert on May 25, led by regular National Youth Orchestra conductor Alain Trudel.