The Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer is the biggest music prize in Canada, worth C$125,000.
The latest winners are mezzo-Soprano Kristin Hoff, founder of the Montreal contemporary company Musique 3 Femmes and pianist Meagan Milatz, co-founder of HausMusique chamber music concerts.
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The virtuoso clarinettist Michel Arrignon, a co-founder of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, died today in La Rochelle at the age of 76. Arrignon was principal clarinet of the Paris Opera Orchestra, founder of the Olivier Messiaen […]
Barrie Kosky’s most recent staging of the Ring continues at Covent Garden with Siegfried; the director had previously declared himself unsatisfied with his staging for Staatsoper Hannover in 2009-11. While this Ring still has one vital part to go, we […]
Meet Chloe Higgins. She has just won the principal tuba seat in the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, in Perth. Blow the winds, southerly. The post New Year, new tubist appeared first on Slippedisc.
-5.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Cross-cultural cross currents: Jasdeep Singh Degun with Fantasia Orchestra in Terry Riley's iconic In C performed by string orchestra, piano, sitar and tabla at Smith Square Hall")
