Angela Hewitt

Angela Hewitt – November 10, 2020 Online

...d is a Visiting Fellow of Peterhouse College in Cambridge. Hewitt is the founder of the Trasimeno Music Festival, an annual event which draws an audience from all over the world. Jacques Lacombe, conductor Music and Artistic Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse in France, Jacques Lacombe has also served as Principal Conductor of the Bonn Opera, Music Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières and of the Orchestre de Lorra...
Alexander Shelley

Alexander Shelley Conducts – November 24, 2020

...awarded first prize at the 2005 Leeds Conductors’ Competition, with the press describing him as “the most exciting and gifted young conductor to have taken this highly prestigious award. His conducting technique is immaculate, everything crystal clear and a tool to his inborn musicality”. In August 2017 Alexander concluded his tenure as Chief Conductor of the Nürnberger Symphoniker, a position he held since September 2009. The partnership was hai...
Charlie Cunningham

Charlie Cunningham at Club Soda – July 7, 2022

...e song to speak for itself. In this, a strange thing occurs: the private becomes the relatable. The songs grow beyond the personal and speak to something universal. From his base in London, Charlie continues to chronicle intimacy and introspection. ‘I’m a private person outside of performing,’ he admits. ‘There’s autobiographical stuff in the lyrics. It flits in and out. It’s more about people generally; their interactions.’ And people are interac...
Sandrine Piau

Soprano Sandrine Piau from Wigmore Hall

...festivals. At the age of 13, Kadouch was invited by Itzhak Perlman to play under his baton at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 2008, Perlman invited him again to perform the Schumann Piano Quintet, this time at Carnegie Hall. He performs at major festivals: Contemporary Music Festival in Lucerne under Pierre Boulez, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Gstaad Festival, Verbier Festival (where he was awarded the Verbier Festival Prix d’Honneur in 2...
Viennese afternoon

A Viennese Afternoon – February 16, 2020 Victoria Hall

...utan is grateful to the scholarships received early in her career from Jeunesses Musicales, Joseph Rouleau, George London, Licia Albanese, COC, Vancouver Operatic Society, Toulouse Int’l Voice Competition and the Canada Council. In 1995, she won the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Auditions and a year later made an impressive debut as Lakmé in Arizona Opera. With over 30 roles such as the Queen of the Night, Zerbinetta, Olympia, Konstanze, Violetta...
Diana Damrau and Joseph Calleja

Diana Damrau and Joseph Calleja – October 24, 2020 Online

..., Katia Ricciarelli, Renata Scotto, José Carreras, Juan Diego Flórez, and Cesare Siepi, among numerous others. He first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in 2014, accompanying Vittorio Grigolo’s solo recital, and has also performed at many of the world’s most prestigious music festivals, including Salzburg, Edinburgh, Martina Franca, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Orange, and Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival. He recently completed a German recital tour with...
Bernard Labadie and Haydn’s Creation

Haydn’s Creation – April 7-8, 2023

...t united, if only for the duration of its performances, a continent torn asunder by war. Structured in three parts devoted respectively to the elements, to animals and humans, and to heaven on earth, The Creation alternates biblical passages with musical commentary in a vastly expressive spiritual fresco. Haydn, The Creation, Hob.XXI:2 (109 min.) Artists Bernard Labadie, conductor and chorusmaster Bernard Labadie is widely regarded as one of the w...
Le Messie de Handel avec Jonathan Cohen

Le Messie de Handel avec Jonathan Cohen – December 10, 2021

Les Violons du Roy present Le Mes*]}*sie de Handel A performance of Handel’s Messiah by La Chapelle de Québec and Les Violons du Roy is always a cause for rejoicing. This year, for the very first time, Les Violons du Roy music director Jonathan Cohen will lead the celebrations. And he’s invited an extraordinary quartet of soloists to join him for the event. Artists Jonathan Cohen, conductor Jonathan Cohen has forged a remarkable career as a conductor...
ENSEMBLE CAPRICE

Ensemble Caprice – January 27, Bourgie Hall

ENSEMBLE CAPRICE The Arte Musica Foundation continues its complete concert presentation of the sacred cantatas of J. S. Bach, one of the world’s most universally admired composers. In keeping with the liturgical cycle, each concert features at least one cantata for the Sunday it was originally composed. Reminder: Short rehearsals take place 45 minutes before each concert and are designed to help you sing along with the final chorale of one of the...
Ensemble Caprice

Ensemble Caprice – February 26, Bourgie Hall

...rice is delighted to once again be a part of Arte Musica Foundation’s epic undertaking of presenting the complete cycle of Bach cantatas. This programme will feature the cantatas BWV 25, 46, 23, and 127. The Cantor of Leipzig was a master at painting orchestral colours, and this performance will provide an incomparable instrumental bouquet: recorders, trombones, trumpet, slide horn, oboe, oboe d’amore and strings all make for a sumptuous musical f...