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The New Brunswick Summer Music Festival: 30 Years in Fredricton

Author : (Eva Stone-Barney)

This year marks 30 years of the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival. Founded in 1994 by Richard Hornsby, clarinetist and Director of Music at the University of New Brunswick, and pianist Robert Kortgaard, the program has expanded substantially over the years, evolving from a three-day chamber-music event to a two-week music festival, complete with educational and mentorship programming for emerging musicians, community outreach activities, and a wide variety of concerts. Offering what Hornsby describes as a “combination of events in various locations around Fredericton,” the festival ensures that “anyone can experience and enjoy live classical chamber music.” “When we started,”…

Gryphon Trio. Photo: Bo Huang

Newswire | Ottawa Chamberfest announces 2023 summer festival

By Newswire on 3 May 2023 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Newswire

OTTAWA — Ottawa’s internationally-acclaimed chamber music festival returns this summer with highly-anticipated live performances from cherished locals, living legends, and up-and-coming Canadian and international stars alike. From July 20 – August 3, 2023, ChamberfestTM will bring 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC) laureates, the Isidore String Quartet; Ottawa’s darling piano virtuoso, Angela Hewitt; and longtime festival friends and collaborators, the Gryphon Trio—among many others—to Ottawa’s best venues. Early bird tickets are on sale May 1, 2023 at chamberfest.com “Following an unprecedented few years, Chamberfest is back in a big way. We’re moving ahead in full force with a lineup…

Isidore String Quartet. Photo: Rita Taylor

Newswire | Isidore Quartet Receives Avery Fisher Career Grant

By Newswire on 28 March 2023 Chamber Music, Newswire, Strings

Banff, March 28, 2023 – Banff Centre extends its sincere congratulations to the Isidore String Quartet as a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant for 2023. This extraordinary recognition comes just seven months after their Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC) triumph last September. The Avery Fisher Career Grants give professional assistance and recognition to emerging instrumental artists with great potential for major careers in classical music. The Isidore String Quartet from the USA is comprised of Phoenix Avalon (violin), Adrian Steele (violin), Devin Moore (viola) and Joshua McClendon (cello). Becoming BISQC Laureates and earning a $25,000 Avery Fisher…

CD Review | Fauré: Après un rêve / Lalo: Espérance (Deutsche Grammophon, 2022/3)

By Andrea Rush on 28 March 2023 CD and Book Reviews, Chamber Music, Piano, Violin

Fauré: Après un rêve / Lalo: Espérance María Dueñas, violin; Itamar Golan, piano Deutsche Grammophon (2022-23) No stranger to Canada, María Dueñas made her mark in Montreal at the age of 16, as a contestant in the 2019 CMIM Violin edition. Not long thereafter, she performed a prize-winning interpretation of Edouard Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole at the Menuhin Competition and landed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon. She continues to receive invitations to play with leading orchestras, including the TSO. To the sheer delight of audiences in Toronto, Ottawa, New York and Chicago, her fiery performances of the Symphonie Espagnole this…

Takács Quartet, photo: Amanda Tipton Photography

Review | Takács Quartet Performance with Insight and Passion

By Paul E. Robinson on 25 March 2023 Chamber Music, Concert Reviews, Piano, Strings, Toronto

Takács Quartet with Jeremy Denk. Music by Haydn, Fanny Mendelssohn and Schumann. Koerner Hall, Toronto. March 23, 2023. Rating: ***** Bringing together thoughtful and talented musicians for a concert nearly always guarantees time well spent, and the experience might even be revelatory. That was certainly the case on March 23, 2023 at Koerner Hall in Toronto when the Takács Quartet led by Edward Dusinberre and American pianist Jeremy Denk took the stage. The Takács Quartet has been around since 1975 and Edward Dusinberre has been its first violinist since 1993. Dusinberre is a wonderful violinist and leader but he is…

Newswire | 28th Montreal Chamber Music Festival (MCMF)

By Newswire on 16 March 2023 Chamber Music, Newswire

Montreal, March 16, 2023. The Montreal Chamber Music Festival (MCCF) is delighted to present the program for its 28th edition, which goes beyond the boundaries of the genre. Concerts will be held in Bourgie Hall at the Museum of Fine Arts and at Place des Arts for the first time in its history. With no less than 15 concerts in 14 days, the festival offers a superb array of music for all audiences. Each show is conceived as a unique moment, a true artistic event that offers a varied repertoire to satisfy the tastes of all music lovers: cello, tap…

CD Review | Schumann: The Three Violin Sonatas (Analekta, 2022)

By Pietro Freiburger on 18 February 2023 CD and Book Reviews, Chamber Music, Piano, Strings

Schumann: The Three Violin Sonatas Andrew Wan, violin, Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano Analekta, 2022 After the award-winning album containing the Beethoven Sonatas, the principal violin of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the winner of the second prize at the Warsaw Chopin Competition devote themselves to the Schumann Sonatas. The balance between the two musicians is great. The difficulty of Schumann’s music is to do justice to an often tormented spirit, without therefore exceeding in an inappropriate sound. Wan and Richard-Hamelin succeed really well in this work of balance, which basically represents the problem of the whole Schumann esthetic, suspended between action…

Mathieu Lussier and Pentaèdre: Bassoon Party

By Pietro Freiburger on 4 February 2023 Chamber Music, World Music

In 2017, the woodwind quintet Pentaèdre launched its Carte Blanche series, a project which saw individual members plan an annual concert, choosing repertoire and partners. This year, the member in question is bassoonist Mathieu Lussier, who will be joined on April 4 by fellow bassoonists Stéphane Lévesque, Alex Eastley, and Mary Chalk for a concert titled Carte Blanche: Bassoon as the Party Gets Going! “The idea is to explore as much as possible: my own works, arrangements of pieces for other instruments and South American music,” said Lussier. Since a bassoon quartet is made up of instruments with an identical…

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La Nef presents: Tout tourne and Red Sky at Night

By Arnaud G. Veydarier on 3 February 2023 Baroque and Early, Chamber Music

Duly recognized for its quality concert presentations, La Nef is equally known for bold programming choices that feature centuries-old music, folk traditions, and contemporary stylings. Tout tourne, the first of its New Year offerings, pairs two figureheads of the local baroque musical scene, flutist Vincent Lauzer and harpsichordist Dorothéa Ventura, with dancer François Richard. This music and dance encounter is all the more unusual and unique as it weds baroque virtuosity to the tune of modern American minimalism. The second event on tap, Red Sky at Night, will feature vocalist and cittern specialist Seán Dagher in a program of traditional…

Ensemble Silakbo. Photo: Sofia Nathanlshar

Concert review | The Silakbo Ensemble: Merging cultures together

By Justin Bernard on 5 November 2022 Chamber Music, Concert Reviews, Contemporary, World Music

On November 2, the Silakbo Ensemble launched its Canadian tour with a first stop in Montreal, at Jeunesses Musicales Canada’s Joseph-Rouleau Hall. Formed by three Bulgarian musicians (Angelina Gotcheva, clarinet, Yoanna Bozhkova, soprano, Bogdan Ivanov, piano), Portuguese violinist Edgar Gomes and Filipino American cellist Mikko Pablo, this quintet was joined exceptionally by Adam Vincent Clarke, composer and piper proud of his Nova Scotia roots. Together they presented their latest project, named Est-Ouest. More than a gathering, it is an exchange, an interconnection, between the Canadian and Bulgarian musical cultures. As part of this project, three creations commissioned by the Silakbo…

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