Besame mucho – the historically informed performance

Many happy returns to Abdullah Ibrahim, South Africa’s wizard of Cape jazz improvisation. A refugee from apartheid, he has lived most of his adult life in New York, performing under the stage name Dollar Brand. […]

Playing in the Orchestre symphonique de Québec for the past three years, Marlène Ngalissamy has been named principal bassoon of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Born in Moscow, Marlène moved to Canada at ten years and […]

This is the 100th birthday of one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time – Oscar Peterson. Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was born in Montreal on 15th  August  1925 and died in Toronto on 23 […]