Another Canadian orchestra has plumped for a Canadian conductor.
Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra has installed Simon Rivard, starting this month.
Rivard, 35, is from Montreal and he’s also MD of Edmonton Opera and the Orchestre de la Francophonie.
He spends his summers coaching at Verbier.
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José van Dam in the title role of Olivier Messiaen‘s Saint François d’Assise, Salzburg Festival, 1998. (Photo: © SF/Bernd Uhlig ) The legendary bass-baritone José van Dam, whose death was announced yesterday, was a singer […]
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The death has been announced, after a long illness, of the drum professor Martin France. Using electronic and sequenced drums and percussion, France featured on more than 100 albums and appeared regularly in Hamburg with […]
