{"id":14906,"date":"2013-09-24T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T20:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=14906"},"modified":"2013-09-25T13:07:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T18:07:35","slug":"orchestra-toronto-appoints-kevin-mallon-as-music-director-as-it-turns-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/09\/24\/orchestra-toronto-appoints-kevin-mallon-as-music-director-as-it-turns-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchestra Toronto appoints Kevin Mallon as music director as it turns 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/Kevin-Mallon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14907\" alt=\"Kevin-Mallon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/Kevin-Mallon.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/Kevin-Mallon.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/Kevin-Mallon-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a>Orchestra Toronto, a community ensemble based at the Toronto Centre for the Arts in North York, has announced that Kevin Mallon is its new music director effective immediately.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes less than a month before the start of the orchestra&#8217;s 60th season. There are five concert scheduled for 2013-14, starting with a substantial programme featuring Toronto Symphony Orchestra associate conductor Shalom Bard on Oct. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Orchestra Toronto is, like most of the city&#8217;s better community groups, made up of a combination of professional and amateur players. You can find out all about the organization <a href=\"http:\/\/orchestratoronto.ca\/wp\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Irish-born, Toronto-based Mallon is a violinist and conductor who has recorded an impressive collection of about four-dozen albums of Baroque and Classical-era music for the Naxos label with two ensembles he founded, one using modern instruments that has never given a live concert in Toronto as far as I know, and the Aradia Ensemble, which uses period instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Mallon is also currently the music director of Thirteen Strings in Ottawa and conductor of the West Side Chamber Orchestra in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The conductor has just announced Aradia Ensemble season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/580302018702761\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, it includes a collaboration with Voicebox (Opera in Concert) in a performance of Jean-Philippe Rameau&#8217;s opera <em>Hippolyte et Aricie<\/em> at the Jane Mallett Theatre on Feb. 24 (details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operainconcert.com\/Hippolyte.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchestra Toronto, a community ensemble based at the Toronto Centre for the Arts in North York, has announced that Kevin Mallon is its new music director effective immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,14,36,39,60,63],"tags":[6451,3926,2303,3927],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/Kevin-Mallon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-3Sq","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14920,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906\/revisions\/14920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14906"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}