November 2024, Newsletter 69
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Scholarship Winners
2024 Annual Meeting – more fun than most AMs
Members gathered in the Arts and Letters Club Great Hall on September 26. After quickly approving the financial statements, appointing auditors for next year, listening to the reports of last year’s activities, accepting the ONCA documents (the result of extreme amounts of time and energy) we enjoyed music made by three of our scholarship winners, and a delectable lunch.
Photo credits: Jim Kippen
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Another WMCT Scholarship Winner joins COC Ensemble Studio
For the 2024/25 season soprano Gabrielle Turgeon will become part of the company’s professional development program. As an undergraduate at the U of T Faculty of Music, Gabrielle was the 2021-2022 winner of the WMCT Centennial Scholarship. She is currently a student at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
As a new member of the Ensemble Studio she will be well on the way to a professional career, like mezzo-soprano Alex Hetherington, a previous winner of the same scholarship and current Ensemble Studio member.
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WMCT Scholarship winner appointed to Sinfonia Toronto
Congratulations to Québec violinist Daphné Bourbonnais who has won the competition to join Sinfonia Toronto as a member of the first violins. Daphne currently holds the WMCT Glenn Gould School scholarship, and performed at the 2023 Annual Meeting. See the complete report in Ludwig Van Toronto.
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COC Ensemble Studio includes 2 recent WMCT winners
Alex Hetherington (2019 U of T Scholarship) and Vlad Soloviev (2021 U of T Graduate Fellowship) have joined this year’s edition of the Studio. Joseph So reviewed their first concert, which re-opened the Free Concert Series at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre.
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Alex Hetherington Wins the UTSO Concerto Competition
Mezzo-soprano Alex Hetherington, WMCT 2018-19 Scholarship Winner, will perform as a soloist next season with the University of Toronto Student Orchestra. Watch the Concerto Competition on the UTFM YouTube channel.
Her performance of the Neruda Songs by Peter Lieberson begins at the 48:56 mark in the video.
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Fellowship winner joins COC Ensemble
Vladimir Soloviev, who completed his studies at the U of T with the support of the WMCT 2020-21 Graduate Fellowship, has joined the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble for 2021-22. In his letter of appreciation of the WMCT award, he wrote:
For more, see the announcement in LudwigVan
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