{"id":75553,"date":"2022-06-10T13:45:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T17:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=75553"},"modified":"2022-06-10T13:45:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T17:45:26","slug":"scoop-canadian-crowned-winner-2022-concours-musical-international-de-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/06\/10\/scoop-canadian-crowned-winner-2022-concours-musical-international-de-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Canadian Crowned Winner Of 2022 Concours musical international de Montr\u00e9al"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_75556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75556\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/CMIM-News-June-2022.jpg\" alt=\"L-R: Canadian mezzo Simone McIntosh and American soprano Meredith Wohlgemuth (Images courtesy of the CMIM)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R: Canadian mezzo Simone McIntosh and American soprano Meredith Wohlgemuth (Images courtesy of the CMIM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Canadian mezzo Simone McIntosh and American soprano Meredith Wohlgemuth were crowned winners of the Montreal International Music Competition, Voice 2022 edition, last night at La Maison symphonique.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Voice edition of the 2022 Concours musical international de Montr\u00e9al wrapped up last night at the Aria Grand Finale, with winners announced.<\/p>\n<p>The prizes, worth a total of $220,000, some twenty in all, took place after a thrilling finale dominated by the Vancouver native <strong>Simone McIntosh<\/strong>. She will take home a grand cash prize of $30,000.<\/p>\n<p>American soprano <strong>Meredith Wohlgemuth<\/strong> took home first place in the Art Song division.<\/p>\n<p>The prize comes with the Joseph Rouleau Career Development Grant of $50,000 offered by the Azrieli Foundation and the Normand Beauchamp Winner\u2019s Tour to Three North American Cities of $15,000 offered by Sarah Beauchamp.<\/p>\n<p>The Maison symphonique had five solid finalists performing three songs with the\u00a0<strong>Orchestre symphonique de Montr\u00e9al<\/strong>, under the direction of <strong>Jacques Lacombe<\/strong>\u00a0backing the singers.<\/p>\n<p>Simone sings third in the Aria First round performances on Day 2 of the competition:<\/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\/24B6PWx-3gQ?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<h2>Aria Division<\/h2>\n<p>First prize<br \/>\n<strong>Simone McIntosh<\/strong>, mezzo-soprano (Canada)<br \/>\nGrand cash prize of $30,000<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Pe\u0301ladeau and Raymonde Chopin Second Prize<br \/>\n<strong>Sarah Dufresne<\/strong>, soprano (Canada)<br \/>\n$15,000<\/p>\n<p>Third Prize<br \/>\n<strong>Valerie Eickhoff<\/strong>, soprano (Germany)<br \/>\n$10,000<\/p>\n<h2>Art Song<\/h2>\n<p>James Norcop First Prize<br \/>\n<strong>Meredith Wohlgemuth<\/strong>, soprano (United States)<br \/>\nGrand cash prize of $30,000<\/p>\n<p>Maureen Forrester Second Prize<br \/>\n<strong>Harriet Burns<\/strong>, soprano (United Kingdom)<br \/>\n$15,000<\/p>\n<p>Lois Marshall Third Prize<br \/>\n<strong>Bryan Murray<\/strong>, baritone (United States)<br \/>\n$10,000<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to all!<\/p>\n<p>For a complete list of special prizes and awards, see here.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian mezzo Simone McIntosh and American soprano Meredith Wohlgemuth were crowned winners of the Montreal International Music Competition, Voice 2022 edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":75556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39907,5,17,9567,39,43],"tags":[40123,6497],"yst_prominent_words":[6952,10032,10036],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/CMIM-News-June-2022.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-jEB","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75553"}],"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=75553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75557,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75553\/revisions\/75557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75553"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=75553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}