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By Sara Schabas on April 27, 2017
If you happened to be wandering Toronto and stumbled across some flamboyantly dressed people speaking a boisterous Russian, you may have been lucky enough to catch sight of famed opera diva Anna Netrebko.
(Continue reading)By Jennifer Liu on April 1, 2017
Four from the classical music world take home Canada's highest musical accolades at the 2017 Juno Awards Ceremony.
(Continue reading)By Jennifer Liu on March 19, 2017
The Canada Council unveiled its Arts in a Digital World Fund, an investment of $88.5 M to promote a digitalization movement across Canadian arts sector.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on January 6, 2017
London Ontario's Western University has announced a short, but innovative new chamber music festival slated to launch this summer with Scott St. John as Artistic Director.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on April 8, 2016
Toronto's Parkdale Library expands to include a new Musical Instrument Lending Program — the first of it's kind in Toronto.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on April 24, 2015
The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony organizes “Hack the Orchestra” - the first hackathon in the world that gives hackers a full symphony orchestra and concert hall experience to work with.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on April 2, 2015
Training academies are becoming an increasingly popular choice for summer classical music festivals. Le Domaine Forget, Toronto Summer Music, Brott Music Festival, Tanglewood, Ravina, Glimmerglass, Santa Fe, all offer apprentice programs aimed at providing training for up and coming musicians during the summer festival season. Now we can add Stratford Summer Music to the list...
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on January 21, 2015
Around this time last year, Opera Hamilton made the announcement that due to a lack of funding, it was closing its doors for good. It wasn’t the first time Hamilton has lost an opera company. Opera Hamilton’s predecessor, Opera Ontario, went bankrupt in 2008, and despite moving from Hamilton Place to the Dofasco Theatre —(a smaller venue designed to cut costs) it wasn’t enough to balance the books...
(Continue reading)By Curtis Perry on October 30, 2014
Suffice to say, it has been a long and tumultuous week in Ottawa. For some here in the nation's capital, it was recently capped off with a remarkably timely and well-executed rendition of Liszt's Lenore and the Dante Symphony.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on October 25, 2014
While Canada begins to come to terms with the shooting rampage that left one soldier lifeless at the foot of the National War Memorial, and a gunman shot dead in the Parliament buildings, members of the National Arts Centre Orchestra have been had to do so from afar.
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