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CDA winner Shannon Mercer will have a merry month of May

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Shannon Mercer, soprano, 2006 winner of the WMCT Career Development Award, regularly maintains a busy and challenging performance calendar of opera, concert, and recital engagements.

On May 3, in CelloDrama! she will sing, accompanied by WMCT Artistic Director Simon Fryer and seven other cellists, Heitor Villa-Lobos’s best-known work, Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5, his homage to Bach, and to the rhythms and folk melodies of his own country.

Then on May 15, Shannon will appear with Esprit Orchestra in the world première of a work by Montrealer Chris Paul Harman.

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CBC’s In Concert Broadcasts Stéphane Tétreault, 2015 CDA winner

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Stéphane Tétreault, cellist, second place winner in the live Career Development Award contest in 2015, toured Europe in late 2017 with the Orchestre metropolitaine under its artistic director and principal conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.  One of the concerts, performed at the Cité de la musique in Paris, will be broadcast on CBC Radio 2 In Concert, on Sunday April 15, 11 am-3 pm. Stéphane will be heard in the Elgar Cello concerto.

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CDA winner Blake Pouliot plays with the TSO, April 14 and15

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In an all-Beethoven concert, Blake Pouliot, winner of the 2018 Career Development award will play the two Romances, with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in two performances, April 14 and 15.

If you can’t make that, check out his new album, featuring the Debussy and Ravel sonatas, on Analekta.

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2018 Career Development Award Winner — Blake Pouliot, violin

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Blake Pouliot

Blake Pouliot, violin, is a versatile artist — a classical musician, film and television actor and keyboardist in an award-winning pop band. At age 23 he has already performed as a soloist with orchestras across North and South America, and will play again with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra April 14-15. He is the recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts 2013 Michael Mesure Prize, and the Grand Prize winner of the 2016 Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Manulife Competition.

On March 8, the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto named him winner of the 2018 Career Development Award. 
On March 9 his debut CD of the Debussy and Ravel sonatas was released on the Canadian Analekta label.

The $20,000 Career Development Award is a project of the WMCT in partnership with CBC Radio Music and Société Radio-Canada/ICI Musique

Read more about Blake Pouliot and the WMCT CDA.

Read Robert Rowat’s Radio-Canada interview, including an excerpt from Blake’s new album.  CBC Radio listeners also heard about Blake Friday March 9 on Tom Allen’s Shift and on Paolo Pietropaolo’s In Concert, Sunday March 11.

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Another Award for Charles

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Pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin has been invested into the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec (OALQ). Charles won the WMCT’s Career Development Award competition in 2015 and played the final concert in Music in the Afternoon’s 119th season on May 4.  It’s an incredible honour and achievement for Charles who is one of 16 people invested in the recent ceremony.

Congratulations from all your friends and supporters at the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto.

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