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By Michael Vincent on January 20, 2016
After fleeing political oppression in South Africa, Violinist Daniel Hope reveals how Yehudi Menuhin took his family in, and changed his life forever.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on October 6, 2015
Joseph So sits down for an in-depth interview with husband and wife team Ekaterina Siurina and Charles Castronovo. Both will be appearing in the upcoming COC production of Verdi's La traviata running October 8 - November 6, 2015.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on August 5, 2015
British-Ukrainian bass-baritone Pavlo Hunka shares his thoughts on bringing Ukrainian Art Songs to the world.
(Continue reading)By Tyler Versluis on June 11, 2015
The Thin Edge New Music Collective is a young-ish contemporary music ensemble regularly engaged in promoting young and emerging artists in Toronto. Thin Edge’s final concert on June 12th, Premieres IV, features newly commissioned music by four young composers, Annie Hui-Hsien Hsieh, Colin Labadie, Sophie Dupuis and Jenny Beck. We asked co-artistic directors Cheryl Duvall and Ilana Waniuk a few questions about the exciting and often challenging processes involved with featuring new music.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on May 11, 2015
Toronto Summer Music Festival Artistic Director Douglas McNabney talks about the art of programming this year’s Festival.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on April 8, 2015
TSO President and CEO Jeff Melanson speaks out about the controversy surrounding pianist Valentina Lisitsa...
(Continue reading)By Ludwig Van on February 26, 2015
Being a composer in the 21st century is no easy task, and despite composing a work declared by some to be, "the best orchestral work that the 21st century has seen thus far", we learn that a composers process is often rife with internal struggles...
(Continue reading)By Ludwig Van on February 19, 2015
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By Ludwig Van on February 7, 2015
Kicking off the first a six part video interview series for Musical Toronto called Ultimate Maverick, Canadian composer, Vincent Ho sits down for an exclusive interview with the internationally renowned Austrian composer, Georg Friedrich Haas...
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on January 22, 2015
Don Giovanni has always been among the most popular operas in the standard repertoire. A quick check of the statistics from the last five seasons puts it at No. 10, out of a total of 2,581 operas performed by over 900 companies worldwide. Not only is it held in the highest regard by opera lovers, and scholars, but composers the likes of Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Gounod, Flaubert and George Bernard Shaw also had nothing but praise for this dramma giacoso.
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