{"id":70510,"date":"2021-03-03T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=70510"},"modified":"2021-03-24T17:18:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:18:29","slug":"scoop-womens-musical-club-toronto-names-2021-career-development-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/03\/03\/scoop-womens-musical-club-toronto-names-2021-career-development-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Women&#8217;s Musical Club of Toronto Names 2021 Career Development Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70514\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/WMCT-Michael-Bridge-2.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Bridge\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/WMCT-Michael-Bridge-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/WMCT-Michael-Bridge-2-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/WMCT-Michael-Bridge-2-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/WMCT-Michael-Bridge-2-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Bridge (Photo: Bo Huang)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Women&#8217;s Musical Club of Toronto (WMCT) has announced accordionist Michael Bridge as the winner of the 2021 Career Development Award.<\/p>\n<p>Awarded every three years, the winner receives a $25,000 cash prize plus a recital as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/directory\/womens-musical-club-of-toronto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WMCT&#8217;s Music in the Afternoon<\/a> series.<\/p>\n<p>Bridge was selected from a total of nine candidates from across Canada. The Jury included CBC producers Alison Howard and Guylaine Picard, violinist Mark Fewer, conductor Naomi Woo, and soprano Christina Haldane.<\/p>\n<p>Hailing from Calgary, Bridge has made a name for himself as a go-to accordionist challenging the perception of the instrument. \u00a0Bridge has appeared as a soloist with the Boston Pops, National Orchestra of Brazil, Edmonton Symphony, Ontario Philharmonic, Lethbridge and the Regina Symphony. He is also a member of Toronto&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2017\/01\/12\/coffee-break-torontos-ladom-ensemble-plays-radiohead-better-than-radiohead\/\">Ladom Ensemble<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kqj8hWYjzQI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite a busy performance schedule, he has been working towards a Doctorate in music at the University of Toronto. Bridge first appeared in a virtual concert with Music in the Afternoon on November 12 last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With such a talented and versatile performer as Michael, we eagerly look forward to hearing him again (and in person!) for his CDA-winner recital in our 2022-23 Music in the Afternoon season,&#8221; writes the WMCT in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Former winners include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2018 \u2013 Blake Pouliot, violin<\/li>\n<li>2015 \u2013 Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano with second prize to cellist, St\u00e9phane T\u00e9treault, and third prize to pianist, Pierre Andr\u00e9 Doucet<\/li>\n<li>2012 \u2013 Vincent Lauzer, recorder<\/li>\n<li>2009 \u2013 Darrett Zusko, piano<\/li>\n<li>2006 \u2013 Shannon Mercer, soprano<\/li>\n<li>2003 \u2013 Sonia Chan, piano<\/li>\n<li>2000 \u2013 Yegor Dyachkov, cello<\/li>\n<li>1997 \u2013 Jeanie Chung, piano<\/li>\n<li>1994 \u2013 Karina Gauvin, soprano<\/li>\n<li>1992 \u2013 James Ehnes, violin<\/li>\n<li>1990 \u2013 Francine Kay, piano<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Congratulations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbridgemusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Bridge<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>#LUDWIGVAN<\/h2>\n<p>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<h3>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily\u00a0\u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <a href=\"https:\/\/bowtie.mailbutler.io\/tracking\/hit\/583e6ce0-dfd0-48be-8a33-61256b3c58e3\/a01723d1-1d1d-44ee-9d0c-779ed93a798c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s Musical Club of Toronto has announced accordionist Michael Bridge as the winner of the 2021 Career Development Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":70514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38476,5,39,63],"tags":[39546,35494,35501,3609],"yst_prominent_words":[39545,6817,20319,8399,6768,20307,6616,10330,7141,9943,12491,6640,6637,6741,7249,9938,11763],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/WMCT-Michael-Bridge-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-ilg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70510"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70510"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70513,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70510\/revisions\/70513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70510"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=70510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}